I wanted to love this story, but didn't. It started off pretty good and I was curious to see where it would go, but the human characters, especially Mags, were so annoying. Not written in a way that I seemed realistic and just...Mags was so not smart at times. I cannot believe that she is even still alive. It was set up that the machine overlords with kill you without a moment's thought if you step out of line, and yet Mags was constantly doing things that should have gotten her killed by them, but didn't. I guess she was just oh so super special no one else can do whatever it is she does. I really don't know why she was so revered as she didn't really do anything...except make some not smart decision, get angry every two seconds and spout off, say mean things to others in her anger, think she can tell everyone what to do even when she is not in charge, etc. I really did not like her and that is not always a bad thing, but the way she was written was in a way that I didn't like her and didn't want to read her.

Then in the middle of the book we have this awful segue with Ian which was frustrating and really slowed the story down to a crawl for no good reason. It wasn't written very well and I mean if Mags and everyone would have been written better it could have worked, but as it was I was rolling my eyes every two seconds and telling my husband how unintelligent Mags and this story is!

There were parts that I did really enjoy which made it all the sadder it wasn't consistent for me. I loved the stuff with Lucasta and learning about him. The fighting with him was a lot of fun. If only the humans didn't ruin the story for me.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for a copy of this book

This book was great, very well written and easy to follow and read, the world reminded me of the 1995 movie ‘screamers’ with that gritty post-apocalyptic, dystopian feel to it, and then you add in the old school vampires which adds another element to the story, the action and horror was great, but I would have loved to see more of it.

The characters were very well written and believable, even the robots seemed to have personalities.

This book dose an excellent job of mixing the post-apocalyptic, dystopian story with the Sci-Fi (vamps).

*Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for a honest review.*