I want to thank NetGalley and Langdon Street Press for providing me with an egalley of this book to read and give an honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
First I have to start with I'll pretty much read anything Amalie Howard writes. She's a talent with 1) any genre and 2) any age group. I've read her YA, I've read her adult. Doesn't matter what she writes, she's just a good writer so her stories always pull me in.
What I loved most about this book was it's atypical plot. Is it paranormal, sure. It's vampire and witch, yup. But the idea of blood being cursed in any way is not something you see in YA writing. And it makes the plot more unique because of it. But it touches on all those things I truly like in paranormal YA, Plus you get that forbidden love thing going between the witches and vampires. Howard also does a great job with the world building.
I enjoyed the dual POV in this book. I love that form of writing because you get to see the story from both the main characters. Of course they never see things the same and this is what creates such a great tension. Victoria is a strong character. I liked that about her. She didn't take any BS. She could hold her own. I always adore a strong female lead in a book. Christian, well, you can see his torture. I also loved that he wasn't stalkerish. So many vampire books make the male out to be this way (eh hem, Meyers). It's actually something that turns me off from reading about vampires.
The pacing, well, it's great. Amalie just knows how to move a story. She knows when you need action. She knows when you need romance. She knows when you need down time. And the ending! BOOM! For a debut story, she really did hit it out of the park. It was interesting to read this after having read her later writing to see how her craft has developed but you can also see how she always had that base and a fabulous grasp of how to tell a good story.
Fans of Kagawa's The Eternity Cure and Amanda Sun's Ink will enjoy this tale of blood lust!

I couldn't finish it. I'm sorry. There are just way too many cliché kicking off right from the start. I tried I really did, but I could really careless about what happened to the characters. Had to DNF it.

Bloodspell is a good YA book that I think most YA readers would like, the old I fall in love with the person I hate book.

I received this book free from Netgalley for an honest review.

This book wasn’t terrible lol. But if Twilight and Sabrina the teenage witch had a love child this would be it. You know cat familiar, vampire boyfriend, lol literally the perfect love child. This book kept me entertained for the most part... there were the odd boring parts. I think this came out in the height of vampire books so it would have done well, now I’m not sure.