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Tessa Dawn

Autor(a) de Blood Destiny

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About the Author

Inclui os nomes: JC Stone, J.C. Stone

Séries

Obras de Tessa Dawn

Blood Destiny (2010) 93 cópias
Blood Possession (2012) 23 cópias
Blood Genesis (2014) 22 cópias
Dragons Realm (1656) 20 cópias
Blood Shadows (2013) 16 cópias
Blood Father (2014) 11 cópias
Blood Redemption (2013) 10 cópias
Blood Vengeance (2015) 10 cópias
Blood Ecstasy (2016) 8 cópias
Blood Echo (2019) 6 cópias
Blood Betrayal (2017) 5 cópias
Christmas In Dark Moon Vale (2017) 5 cópias
Blood Harvest (2021) 5 cópias
Blood Web (2018) 4 cópias
Dragons Reign (2018) 2 cópias
Zanaikeyros (2016) 2 cópias
Axeviathon (2019) 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
female

Membros

Resenhas

"It was almost there. But author explains too much and some scenes were way longer rhsn they needdd to be or didnt seem relevant
Wont read any more"
 
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Renegadefx | outras 5 resenhas | Sep 18, 2023 |
This book is a short introduction to the series.

It begins in 800 B.C. in Romania. There are two princes, Jadon and Jaegar Demir, who are descended from Celestial beings. Jaegar has gone quite mad and believes that he needs to kill all females of his race so he can sit amongst the gods. Jadon and his followers try to stop Jaegar but Jaegar controls the kingdom’s military forces so Jadon has no way to overcome him.

The story is mostly from the point of view of the last female, Jessenia Groza, to be put to death. She’s in a cell awaiting her execution the following morning. Her lover Timaos Silivasi is barely clinging to life, hanging from chains in the same cell. She has a vision of what will become of her race. There will be a curse on all of the men and their descendants. She sees that the son of Sebastian and Katalina Mondragon is key to saving all that is good and holy of their race but she sees that Jaegar’s high priest will try to murder this ten-year-old boy. In order to save the boy, she must convince Timaos to denounce her and beg forgiveness of Jaegar and then after he saves the boy, turn around and pledge his fealty to Prince Jadon before the Blood Curse hits.

Jessenia also sees the five future children of Timaos, Marquis, Nathaniel, Kagen, Nachari and Shelby and knows that he will live on and learn to love again…if she can convince him to save himself.

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dragonlion | Jul 30, 2022 |
After Prince Jaegar Demir killed all the females of his race in 800 BC in Romania because he thought it would make him into a god, he and all his descendants were cursed by the blood of those females.
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The Curse

They shall never know the love of a female.

They shall never produce a female offspring.

Their sons will be born in sets of twins, both born of darkness (evil) and the firstborn son of the first set of twins shall be sacrificed for atonement. Failure to sacrifice that son will lead to horrible and agonizing death.

The human host who carries the child will die painfully upon giving birth.

They shall be creatures of the night never entering daylight lest they be killed.

They shall have to ingest blood in order to live.

His brother, Prince Jadon Demir, who had tried to save the females but ultimately failed, begged for clemency so he and his descendants received 4 mercies from Blood Curse.

They still be able to walk in the light.

Although they still have to drink blood to live, they do not have to take the life of the person who they feed from.

They shall receive one opportunity to receive a mate and the sign will be shown in the heavens.
They shall still have sets of twins but the first set will have one born of darkness and one born of the light. The twin born of the darkness will have to be sacrificed. Any set of twins born afterwards will both be born of the light.
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Present Day in Colorado

Shelby Silivasi has just been laid to rest. He died a miserable death after failing to produce a sacrifice within 30 days of meeting his destiny, Dalia. A destiny is the predestined mate of the descendants of Jadon. He saw the sign, the Blood Omen, in the sky but Valentine Nistir, a descendant of Jaegar or Dark One, stole her away before he could yield his sacrifice to the Blood Curse.

His four brothers are devastated. He was the youngest of them all yet he met his destiny first and then died first. They vow to never let this happen again and to seek revenge on Valentine.
The beginning of the book was a little vague in what actually happened but all my questions were answered as I read on. Once a descendant of Jadon aka Light One or Light Vampyr meets his destiny or rather sees the Blood Omen or Blood Moon with their celestial star sign, they have 30 days to produce a sacrifice. They have to actually turn the woman into a vampire first and then they can impregnate her. Gestation only takes 48 hours. Since their destinies are human and humans do not know about the existence of vampires, it takes a little convincing to get the woman to agree with all of this craziness. Shelby had not got the chance to explain it all to Dalia before Valentine stole her away.

Jocelyn Levi works for ICE, a department within Homeland Security. She is in the Eastern Rocky Mountains looking for a cave that an informant told her had been the site of ritualistic killings. She’s been working a case on human trafficking where women were turning up dead after being sold and used and she wonders if this has any connection to her case. Her informant had assured her that this cave is no longer in use so she is hiking up to investigate alone. Well, what could go wrong there?

She finds an alter in the cave that looks like it has been used to sacrifice a lot of what she hoped were not humans. She hears a noise and sloshes through some smelly stagnate water to hide under a rock ledge. She witnesses a gorgeous man carrying a very pregnant woman. The woman who the man calls Dalia cries out for the man, Valentine, to help her but he does not. Jocelyn just knows that he is not human and that he is evil. She watches as the woman’s abdomen and chest rip open and the man lifts out a baby with black hair and red bands just like his hair. He lays the baby on the altar and a fog rolls in and when the fog recedes, the baby is gone. Valentine then lifts another baby out of the woman’s abdomen, incinerates the woman’s body with fire formed from his finger tips and walks out of the cave humming to the baby.

She waits a long while and then takes off back down the mountain. She falls and cries out. Nathaniel Silivasi, one of Shelby’s brothers who was at his grave side, hears Jocelyn’s scream and goes to check it out. Jocelyn immediately knows he is not human also which freaks her out because of what she has just witnessed. Then the Blood Moon happens and the constellation Cassiopeia appears in the sky and then markings appeared on her left arm, Cassiopeia.
Nathaniel now has 30 days to produce a sacrifice.

I had a hard time with the sacrificing of a baby whether it was evil or not but the author did a good job at easing my trepidations…not totally convincing me totally but at least I wasn’t tossing the book away. I was also a little worried about the dialogue in the book at first because it seemed a little forced or unnatural. Jocelyn is a modern woman yet she was not using contractions when she spoke. She said, “You are hurt.” Instead of saying, “You’re hurt.” Which drove me insane but then the author either realized it or who knows what but the dialogue became much more relaxed by the end of the book.

This is one of the best new paranormal series that I have read in a long time. It is not your ordinary cookie-cutter vampire book. Tessa Dawn uses new concepts and ideas to achieve this story. Her plot lines are original and complex and it kept me intrigued all the way through the book. When I was finished. I was still hungry for more so I immediately downloaded the next book in the series. I highly recommend this series to anyone who likes paranormal romances.

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… (mais)
 
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dragonlion | outras 5 resenhas | Jul 30, 2022 |
It is strange that I am such a paranormal romance fan yet I had never heard of this series before a few weeks ago. I follow a few authors on Facebook and saw that Lara Adrian had asked her fans what they were reading and loving so I read the responses and saw that someone was reading this series. A few people had replied and agreed that it was a great series so I looked it up. I downloaded the first book because it was free and it turned out to be a short prequel. It was so complex that I had to jot down notes to keep everything straight. I think more people should know about this series and it should be in the top 20 vampire or paranormal romance series, if not the top 10.

The series is about a curse that began in 800 BC in Romania after a psychotic prince, Prince Jaegar Demir, had executed all the females of his race, a race that was descended from celestial gods. After slaughtering all of the females, their blood rose up and cursed the prince and his descendants with being evil vampires, never to walk in the sun again.

The Curse

They shall never know the love of a female.

They shall never produce a female offspring.

Their sons will be born in sets of twins, both born of darkness (evil) and the firstborn son of the first set of twins shall be sacrificed for atonement. Failure to sacrifice that son will lead to horrible and agonizing death.

The human host who carries the child will die painfully upon giving birth.

They shall be creatures of the night never entering daylight lest they be killed.

They shall have to ingest blood in order to live.

The mad prince’s twin brother, Prince Jadon Demir, who had tried to save the females but ultimately failed, begged for clemency so he and his descendants received 4 mercies from Blood Curse.

They still be able to walk in the light.

Although they still have to drink blood to live, they do not have to take the life of the person who they feed from.

They shall receive one opportunity to receive a mate and the sign will be shown in the heavens.

They shall still have sets of twins but the first set will have one born of darkness and one born of the light. The twin born of the darkness will have to be sacrificed. Any set of twins born afterwards will both be born of the light.

The Blood Curse is pretty complicated…and a bit cruel. Those dead women were really blood thirsty and angry. They cursed all the males of the race, not just Jaegar and Jadon’s descendants. They cursed their followers too.

There are four brothers and a king who are key characters in this series.

Napolean Mondragon was only ten years old at the time of the Blood Curse. He watched as Jaegar viciously killed his father. He ran but the Blood Curse caught him and transformed him into a Vampire. He became the king of the house of Jadon…the good Vampyrs or Light Vampyrs. The descendants of Jaegar are known as the Dark Ones and are evil to the core.

Napolean meets his chosen destiny, a human who his mate. Brooke has a tortured past but has pulled herself up in the corporate world and is one of the best in her field. She is at a conference in Dark Moon Vale in the Colorado mountains when Napolean kidnaps her and tells her she is his destiny. She thinks he is crazy at first.

The Dark Ones have a plan to destroy Napolean, thus destroying all of the descendants of Jadon. Salvatore Nistor, a powerful Wizard for the Dark Ones, conjures up an apparition who looks like Napolean’s father. He thinks he can use the ghost to shame Napolean for not trying to save his father when Prince Jaegar killed him but his plan backfires when Brooke steps in and saves Napolean.

Salvatore and the council of the Dark Ones decide to summon Ademordna, the evil twin of Napolean’s celestial goddess Andromeda by sacrificing first born sons (well, actually the second born since all Dark Ones are born in sets of twins and the first born son is always taken by the Blood Curse) until the god appears and asking him to possess Napolean. They come up with an elaborate scheme and it works.

Now the brothers have to figure out a way to save Napolean but their plan involves actually killing Napolean and one of the brothers just for a few moments at the most but it could fail. It’s a very dangerous plan.

The bad guys in this series are REALLY bad. This author does not shy away from describing torture and rape which makes my stomach turn but she does evoke my hatred towards the bad guys with it.

I have already read the next book. I didn’t even stop to write the review on this book because I was so anxious to get to the next book in the series. Shame on me!

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… (mais)
 
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dragonlion | 1 outra resenha | Jul 30, 2022 |

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Obras
20
Membros
288
Popularidade
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Avaliação
4.1
Resenhas
18
ISBNs
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