Review: Witchblood by Emma Mills

Title:  Witchblood
Author:  Emma Mills
Genre:  Young Adult/Paranormal


This is Ms. Mills' first book, to be honest, I would have had no idea!  I was drawn to this book by it's title and cover art, revealing the description sealed in the deal.

The story's characters are fun, scary, protective, loving, empathetic, and commanding.  Being a Young Adult novel, as I've stated before you have to catch them quickly and keep them occupied so they don't bore easily and give up reading the rest, regardless of how good "the rest" may be.

Ms. Mills accomplishes that and more.  Her American audience will probably find it fun reading, as it's written in the UK English, rather than the American with slang they're used to, which helps to put yourself within the story for the target group.

The main character is 17 year old Jessica, who is soon to turn 18.  She's clubbing with friends (remember, the legal drinking age in the UK is 18!) when she meets Daniel.  A series of events happen and Jessica is turned into a vampire, and she's able to block her sire bond.  There are many more different things she experiences as a newborn vampire that others don't.  The problem is then discovered, the title of our book, she has Witchblood!

When you read as many paranormal books as I do, you really can read the same version of the same story over and over again.  I didn't feel like I was reading something I'd already read with this book.

Witchblood is written in the first person, but because it's written for UK audiences for the most part, it does seem more "adult" because of the legal drinking age. With that comes the commonalities of sexual intercourse, sexual attraction, etc.  Luckily our author kept that in mind and kept it real!  Good job!  The audience intended will be able to have  a possible lane of plausability and will thrive with it.

The story, in some stages, breaks your heart and you actually feel those emotions, as the author's ability to connect with her audience is so well written.

Luckily, there's another book in this "series" and I'm very excited to read it.  One thing I would do however, is to recommend more than one proof-reader or copy editor, as I caught a few of those "spell check changed words" and some missing quotation marks.

Not bad for your first book!

3.9 out of 5 Bookmarks