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Bloodshifted (2014)

by Cassie Alexander(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1250037956 (ISBN13: 9781250037954)

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Paperbacks

series

Edie Spence

review 1: Edie is now a daytimer after being saved by drinking blood. She is also enslaved by Raven and awaits the possibility of freedom while protecting her newborn. She really can't trust anyone, even another daytimer named Jackson whose motives are sketchy. She ends up at the nightclub cleaning all the while wanting to make it back to Asher.Edie of course doesn't take anything lying down, so it wasn't surprising that she would have to save the world once again. I love her strength and courage to face everything.I give Bloodshifted 4 hearts!
review 2: 3.5 stars. Let me start with this: I'm a fan of the series. I think it's good that the author is taking the books in a different direction, instead of just going with the hospital trauma of the week, though I do really e... morenjoy when the stories are set in the medical background because Alexander is able to make them so real and just bring the settings to life. But it can be good for a series after a few books to have a new story arc, which book four seemed to start and if there was a book six maybe that would have wrapped or not, who knows. I would have liked a whole arc of Evie and Asher working together, I like to see couples get past the will-they-or-won't-they and work as a team. And getting deeper into exploring the vampire underworld of this series makes a lot of sense. Everything started with Evie and Anna so it makes sense that it should be fleshed out, so to speak, at some point.But. What I liked about Evie in the beginning was that she was a totally normal woman who just got caught up in this crazy stuff. She wasn't powerful, she wasn't immensely brave, and she felt real. Now she's just typical bullheaded urban fantasy chick, typical Too Stupid To Live and sometimes she makes me nuts. In this book and the last she constantly begging to get killed because she's so brave and just needs to save everyone no matter how risky it is to herself, and when the heck did this woman become a hero? How was it her job to save the 4000 people on that boat in the last book, or now she has to figure out how to stop the evil vampires from their dastardly plan, even if she doesn't actually know which vampires are evil (or more evil?) and if it kills her and her baby. Evie never seriously considers trying to just get away and tell someone else to deal with it, like Anna or the Consortium,, maybe the werewolves would want to stop the vampires from being able to, well, do what they were going to do, I don't know this world well but if I can think of some, I bet she could have if she tried. If they knew about the danger, if she lived to get out of there and tell them. But she was determined to do everything herself. A basic definition of TSTL - trying to save the world without a plan and being shocked when the whole thing goes sideways. "Then again, I was pregnant. Maybe now was a great time to be a bystander for fucking once. [Yes, idiot!!]...The thing about saving the world is that it's hardly ever the last minute choice that does it–it's the infinite number is choices you make on the way there that wind up making you who you want to be." Seriously??? She's put a lot of thought into saving the world. And who she wants to be relative to it. I get it, she's leading up to thinking about if she can live with herself if she chooses herself over new victims of this crazy nest of vampires. But oh, the nutty writing! "...The mom in me, the fiancé in me, and most especially the nurse in me could not." The nurse I get, but I'm pretty sure you kid and fiancé would want you to live, lady. Especially Asher, who was furious with you for all of the risks you took on the cruise ship. How about when the big fight is happening upstairs and Edie heads right into it instead of trying to hide somewhere. Gemellus needed to go up to fight Raven, but why did human Evie need to be there? Oh yeah, because she's Too Stupid To Live. Plus she can't be used as a hostage if she isn't there. And it's no fun to just hear about fights after; I'm sure she just wanted to see the action. And how sad is it that she considers Anna to be her best friend? I've thought before that she needed some friends, but that is just pitiful. Look, I do kind of dig that Edie was put to the test in this book and really had to change and toughen up. She did a lot of things that she wouldn't have done only to protect herself, but when it came to making sure she stayed alive to protect her baby there was a profound change in this woman who both as a nurse and just from her basic nature is deeply orientation toward protecting people. Plus it's hard to say how much influence being a daytimer and having Raven's blood in her had, it seemed to make her mind go in more ruthless and violent directions than normal. So I got what Alexander was trying to do, showing the clash between Evie's fundantal nature as a life saver and being in a desperate situation and seeing what she's do under the worst of circumstances, surrounded by, and partially converted into, life takers. I do just wish Alexander could show the struggle without making Evie so darn stupid all of the time! Not that I want her to be a coward, or that a book about a woman hiding in her room would be fun, but I just would like to see some balance, some sense of reality in my fantasy book. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like I'm going to get it. Apparently the publisher is even dumber than Edie and has dropped the series. I may whine a bit about Edie's choices, but I was still here from day one and had planned to be for many more books to come. And apparently Alexander was too because this book was in no way a series finale, it ends very much with a lead-in to a next book. Maybe she's hoping to self-publish in the future, it's worked for other authors. I hope so, with a built in fan base she should be able to do well, I'd think. I know Kelly Meding did it for her Dreg City books. I'm not sure what other authors might have tried specifically to continue an alreay active and successful series (even if not as successful as the publishing house wants to see). But a lot of fans would be on board for book six, that's for sure. less

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