Blood Bounty (Vampires Of Noctra 1) by Darcy Abriel

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This a classical pirate story setting in the Caribbean sea of the nineteen century with a twist.

Dontè is a vampirate, a vampire captain with a crew of willing donor. All the sailor in his ship are also his lovers, and lovers among them; actually they live like in a new-flowers community :-), all beautiful men, with long braided hair and strong and hard bodies. Dontè is the only vampire and he is like a pater familias for his men, no one, even the more rebellious, will ever put on stake the captain's life.

Skye is a young English man, the disciple of a great and famous vampire hunter, and he volunteered for a suicidal mission: find and kill the infamous Captain Dontè Lucienne. Skye has some clear idea in mind, all the vampires are evil and he will kill all of them like they killed his parents. But Skye has never met a Caribbean vampire, a being who blends blood thirsty with blood lust.

There is a subtle but clear development in the story, the reader is expecting for Skye's fall into the lustful world of Dontè, and instead he would read of the slow seduction of Skye; like the old motto, Skye refusing to give up his body lures even more Dontè in his trap; the prey becomes the predator.

In this first book of the series, we probably know better Dontè than Skye, and this is another quite original switch: all in all the mysterious and dark character is not the vampire, but the vampire hunter; Skye reveals to have more hidden secret than Dontè, and when the book ends, Skye still remain an undiscovered territory.

I will wait for the second book in this series to know what Skye's decision will be.

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Comments

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

Hey wow! My vampire's name is Donte too... what are the chances of that?!! Great minds...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yes, I noticed that... but here is Dontè, with the accent :-) Elisa