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Half-Blood: A Covenant Novel [Paperback]

Jennifer L. Armentrout
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October 18, 2011 Covenant (Book 1)
The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

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About the Author

# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you've heard about her state aren't true. When she's not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories....which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen.
She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Spencer Hill Press; 1 edition (October 18, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780983157205
  • ISBN-13: 978-0983157205
  • ASIN: 0983157200
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.9 x 6.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (278 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout lives in West Virginia.

When she's not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write. She shares her home with her husband, his K-9 partner named Diesel and her hyper Jack Russell Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent her time writing short stories. Therefore explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes Young Adult Contemporary, Urban Fantasy/Paranormal and Romance. She writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J.Lynn

She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press) the Lux Series (Entangled Teen) and the upcoming YA Don't Look Back (2014) and untitled YA (Fall 2014) from Disney/Hyperion. She is also published with Harlequin Teen and HarperCollins.

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I have read the Vampire Academy books (one of my all-time favorite series!) Nereyda @  |  71 reviewers made a similar statement
I love Alex, the strong female protagonist who kicks butt. Amy Y.  |  67 reviewers made a similar statement
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131 of 150 people found the following review helpful
By Vespi
Format:Paperback
After reading the synopsis, I was eager to read HALF-BLOOD and discover this interesting world which looked to be a UF novel of a hybrid vampire-Greek god race. While the mythology set-up was interesting, within 25 pages of reading, it became clear that something kept me from liking this book too much. And what would that be?

This book seemed to be a direct clone of the first VAMPIRE ACADEMY book. This was noticeably in the first *25 pages* and grew more and more pronounced as the book progressed. Now I understand that in the world of UF and YA vampire novels, a lot of mythologies and ideas overlap, but this was no mere coincidence. There were literally plot lines and direct phrases lifted from VA. I couldn't believe it. Here are the startling similarities: (**warning: spoilers if you have not read Vampire Academy or Half-Blood)

*Girl is 17-years old, of a halfie race that is considered a lower caste than the superior pure race above her who have power to wield the four elements.

*The halfie race retains incredible physical powers that allow them to battle an evil vampire-like form of their race, who are immensely powerful and drain the blood of the pure and half-race. Young halfies are trained at their race's society-run boarding school, where they train to be deadly guards/protectors to the superior race and slayers of the evil race.

*Girl has been on the run from the school officials for several years due to an unclear danger there Is caught by a hot older guy belonging to the elite group of guards and brought back.

*Girl is almost expelled by headmaster/mistress, but is vouched for by previously mentioned hot guard, who agrees to train with girl every day to make up the years lost in her training.
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46 of 54 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money and get the original January 22, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As I was reading this novel I kept wondering why it felt so familiar, after the first three chapters, I realised I was reading Vampire Academy with gods instead of vampires. Everything is just a blatant, unimaginative, uninspired ripoff, if I were this author I
would be ashamed of myself, and if I were Richelle Meade, I'd sue.

****SPOILER ALERT****

Without giving too much away to those who still want to read it, everything, and I mean everything is pretty much the same.

Girl that's a part of a lower caste of half-breed supernaturals training to defend the full blooded? Check.

Broody mysterious Superman type instructor that saves her bacon then agrees to train her so she doesn't fall behind her class year? Check.

Even the scene where Rose and Lissa are dragged before the head of the school with three Guardians in the room that plead on Rose's behalf is duplicated.

And oh dear god, the daimons are former pure-bloods that become daimons when they drain aether from the blood of another pure-blood, much the same way that strigoi become strigoi draining moroi. Even her name for the pure bloods (hematoi) is in the same phonetic family.

I'm sorry that's just pathetic, Richelle Meade put all lot of hard work into VA for someone with less than stellar writing skills to just rip her off.

I fully intend to get refund for this drivel, I will not support plagerism. Some similarities in ya fantasy fiction is to be expected, but this is just a blatant copy.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars I Don't See Why There Is So Much hype April 26, 2012
Format:Paperback
There is only one thing I liked about this book and that was its cover to me this book was boring nothing exciting happened, I guess I am one of the many few that did not like this book and the question of if I would recommend this book to friends- No, I definitely will not recommend this book but if you're curious I recommend checking this book out from the library or buying the eBook don't waste your money.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars no just no March 4, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
yeah it followed the exact plot as Vampire Academy. it was very confusing. i didnt even have the heart to capitalyze, or spellcheck.

Tata
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Total rip off of Vampire Academy January 1, 2013
By Kristin
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Not sure how to rate this book. Was I entertained? Yes but only because it gave me my Vampire Academy fix that I've been in need of since the series ended. There is no originality in this story, it's a retelling of Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. Scenes are similar, circumstances are similar, even characters personalities are similar to their counterparts. The author should've just called Alex-Violet and Aiden-Pyotr (get it because of Rose and Dimitri?). I mean if you're going to go for it... GO FOR IT!

Alex is a half-blood. As a half blood she has two choices, become a Sentinel or Guard of pure bloods or become a slave to the pure bloods. She was in school to become a sentinel, the highest of protectors, that is until her mother and her ran away for reasons unknown to Alex. Three years later sentinels find Alex not long after her mother's killed by daemons. She's brought back to the school by the baddest sentinel of all, Aiden, and a couple of other Sentinels, where the dean is reluctant to have her back. In fact the dean (who is her uncle) is ready to take away her free will and turn her over to a pure blood as a slave. However, Aiden and one of his co-sentinel's speak up and convince the dean to give her another shot. Aiden soon finds himself as her training instructor even though his job is to fight daemons. Pretty soon the sparks start flying between the two of them but their love is forbidden amongst their society. While fighting their attraction, Alex learns that her mother wasn't killed but in fact turned into a daemon and is now hunting her, she has a special bond with a guy named Seth and he can sense her feelings and even though Aiden has feelings for, they must remain as student and teacher.

I hate to admit this, I was entertained.
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Oh.my.WORD! Where do I even start??? Forewarning: Please excuse all gushing because this book was AWESOME!

Seriously though, I really don't know where to start. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars umm
Ok, so I really liked Percy Jackson the Lightning Thief, and I thought this would be similar, but I got 10 pages in and decided I hated it. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wow
This book was an amazing start yo an amazing series. I really enjoyed leading all the rest which took some time of course, great read!!!
Published 5 days ago by Melissa bono
3.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff happening, needed a better editor
I am unfamiliar with the Vamp Academy so many reviewers claim this knocks off so as far as I can tell this is an interesting and unique story with well developed characters... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Cortney
4.0 out of 5 stars Can't get enough of YA paranormal series~
I started reading this series after Lux series. Once I start a book, I have to read all the books from the same author until my face turn blue. Read more
Published 10 days ago by teenysquirrel
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice plot
I think that half blood is a well written book. It was never slow or boring and the main character was realistic . Read more
Published 11 days ago by Charliedown
4.0 out of 5 stars More please!!!!
At first I didn't know what to think, it almost sounded like a rip off of twilight. But I'm going to apologize for making any reference to Twilight, it is far better than that. Read more
Published 18 days ago by MeghanMMurphy
5.0 out of 5 stars Woahhhh
This book was so entertaining!!!!! I couldn't put the book down!! I would recommend this book to anyone. Loved it
Published 21 days ago by Jena hays
3.0 out of 5 stars IT IS GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD!
jennifer Armentrout is among my favorite writers. Right after I finish reading the LUX series, read "Waiting for You", and having read the reviews about this series, I had no doubt... Read more
Published 21 days ago by AimeeD
3.0 out of 5 stars A re-telling of the first book of Vampire Academy series....
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"Half-Blood" was headspinningly awesome and not boring at all, but umm.. Yeah, there's a big fat BUT. Read more
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