I found Blood Skies to be a very good and very dark book.As I'm an avid reader of vampire books it's really nice to read a book which doesn't describe vampires in such a way that they have become romanticised. To me vampires should be creatures that scare you or at least creep you out. Steven Montano certainly portrays the vampires to be the dark, blood sucking monsters that I think they should be. Steven doesn't scrimp on the bloodshed and gore either: "Three corpses lay in unrecognizable heaps on the ground, their bodies perforated head to toe by the rusty weapons. Shreds of clothing clung to their decimated bodies. Bloody messes of hair and skin had spread like grisly jam." & "Their flesh was rotten and leathery, and they bore gaping holes in their bodies through which he saw black worms swimming in their veins in place of blood."The description of Unicorns that Steven uses has certainly changed my view of them from the cute white lovable animals from my childhood to some thing a little more sinister and creepy: "The unicorns emerge from the silver fog like a chain of nightmares. Their skin is black and coarse, and thick dark blood oozes from their nostrils and hooves. Their eyes are white and their horns are jagged and covered in scratches. Their teeth are fanged."There are some points in the book where I actually felt sorry for the main character Cross, the best instances of this without becoming a spoiler would be Chapter 11 and Chapter 23.I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves fantasy and vampires, but I do mean Vampires not soft, lovable vampires!My overall rating of this book is 4! Lets see how book 2 does... I was really not into the style of writing. It seemed to be almost to poetic and wordy. The writer described characters multiple times when they should only be described when they are first introduced to the story. At first the story and the characters didn't hold my interest but about halfway through the story started to pull together and get interesting (which pushed it from 2 stars to 3 but just barely). I did enjoy the ending and started reading the teaser for the next book in the series. It seemed like the author had settled in and the writing was better and not so artistic.
What do You think about Blood Skies (2011)?
I entered a giveaway, I want to check this Vampire read out.
—Lamarquez3
very complex book to get into but I enjoyed it.
—Gul
