Blood Born
by Renee Lake
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Pub Date Jul 16 2019 | Archive Date Aug 17 2019
Melange Books | Fire and Ice Young Adult Books
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Description
Embrace the darkness in this LGBTQ+ gender-bent Dracula retelling!
Maddie is excited about the new adventures college life will bring. She dreams of rallies, weird roommates and exciting courses of study. She's living with her girlfriend and making new interesting friends while watching out for her terminally ill brother. What she doesn't expect is mystery, tragedy, and heartbreak to befall her within the first semester. Is there a monster preying upon the people at her college? Will she betray her friends and succumb to temptation? Can they band together and fight the darkness? Or is the darkness that surrounds her not the enemy...but her only ally?
Renee Lake is a 36-year-old Puerto Rican from Utah. She has a bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration and Management. She currently works in the world of locums. She has several novels published on amazon.com and Smashwords. Renee has four children. She is married to a fellow book lover and their house has more bookshelves than anything else. Renee loves bats, dinosaurs and is passionate about women's reproductive rights and equality. As a small child, she wanted to be a vampire more than a princess and filled notebooks and old floppy disks with stories. She prefers to lend a dark tinge to her writing. When she's not taming crazy kids or working full time she is writing. You can also find her exploring the wilds of Thedas or shopping at the Citadel.
A Note From the Publisher
This book contains some strong and adult themes
It is suggested reviewers read the excerpt and triggers warnings before requesting the novel. The link for the excerpt and warnings is below.
This book contains some strong and adult themes
Marketing Plan
Ebook and Paperback available
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Ebook and Paperback available
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781680467802 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Lucy B, Educator
This is a book that a younger version of myself would have really enjoyed and gone back to over again. While a very different story it gave me the same feeling that I liked when watching early seasons of The Vampire Diaries: darkish, broody, stylish, melancholy and dramatic in a way that only works in one’s late teens. . . It’s taking something very familiar and often over done (Dracula/vampires) and making it something just new enough that you want to rediscover it. This has the right blend of wish fulfillment and angst to connect well with it’s intended Y/A audience. It also rides nicely the literary zeitgeist of unlikeable female. If you’re looking for a sparkly, romantic, Twilight style vampire book this is not for you. If you’re looking for something edgy and a bit darker with some teeth for that same teen group this is the way to go.
Kelly M, Media/Journalist
Blood Born is a modern-day retelling of Dracula by Renee Lake.
It centres around College freshman Maddie.
Maddie is excited about the new adventures college life will bring. She dreams of rallies, weird roommates and exciting courses of study. She's living with her girlfriend and making new interesting friends while watching out for her terminally ill brother. What she doesn't expect is mystery, tragedy, and heartbreak to befall her within the first semester. Is there a monster preying upon the people at her college? Will she betray her friends and succumb to temptation? Can they band together and fight the darkness? Or is the darkness that surrounds her not the enemy...but her only ally?
The story of Dracula has been retold to death (pun not intended), but the premise of the book had us really interested in reading it. You don't have to have read the original Dracula to read this book. The author pays homage to the original novel a lot, Dracula you will know what we mean. For us, it all helped us to enjoy the story even more.
While we loved the plot, we sometimes struggled with the authors writing style, it made certain parts of the story feel a little flat and it caused the story to lose momentum.
Overall Blood Born is a dramatic, dark and a gripping read. The way the author uses devices like social media and diary entries etc, really add depth and layer to the characters, immersing you more in the story.
If you like Vampires, Supernatural and Romance then this a book you have to read!
