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A review by ihavetosay
The Blood Gift by N.E. Davenport
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
4/5 ⭐️
The Blood Gift by N.E. Davenport
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SYNOPSIS
Ikenna and her team are traveling Iludu looking for allies who can provide soldiers. Ikenna is a wanted fugitive in Mareen for being blood gifted and everyone else has a bounty on their head for vacating their positions as Praetorians and working with a fugitive. This news doesn’t change the team’s goal: to kill the Blood Empire who is starting another war against the world and to go after the corrupt Tribunal Council who are all culpable in her grandfather’s murder.
What could possibly happen?
RECAP AND REVIEW
This is the second book in The Blood Gift Duology. This book is a sci fi book with a bit of romance, full of action. Like the first, it read like a movie. So far this series remains as my number one series of the year.
The Blood Gift picks up a few months or so after The Blood Trials ends. We see a rapid change in the dynamics of the group, specifically Reed and Ikenna. Their relationship changing was satisfying and steamy.
The first book was mainly about what they went through to become a Praetorian; this book is about war. The realities of being in war. How being a soldier means you do what your higher ups command without much question. What power can do to people and how self interested people can be.
So much occurs, no one really has time to rest until the end, and even then, do they have time to rest? Pretty much all of the loose ends in the first book were tied up and I think done so successfully.
The pacing was a bit off, but I don’t think the author is to blame because if my intel is correct, it was originally meant to be a trilogy. That’s on publishing.
It is interesting what one person can mean to different people. Ikenna’s grandfather was a misguided lover to one, a mentor to another, an enemy, a traitor, a hardass father, a savior, a warrior, Ikenna’s everything. I think the way it’s subtlety woven through the story is a nice reminder of the complexity of who people are and how they present.
OVERALL
Overall, I give this book 4/5 stars. I was satisfied with it as a follow up to The Blood Trials. I honestly want to see more of their story.
The Blood Gift by N.E. Davenport
Full post at ihavetosay.blog
SYNOPSIS
Ikenna and her team are traveling Iludu looking for allies who can provide soldiers. Ikenna is a wanted fugitive in Mareen for being blood gifted and everyone else has a bounty on their head for vacating their positions as Praetorians and working with a fugitive. This news doesn’t change the team’s goal: to kill the Blood Empire who is starting another war against the world and to go after the corrupt Tribunal Council who are all culpable in her grandfather’s murder.
What could possibly happen?
RECAP AND REVIEW
This is the second book in The Blood Gift Duology. This book is a sci fi book with a bit of romance, full of action. Like the first, it read like a movie. So far this series remains as my number one series of the year.
The Blood Gift picks up a few months or so after The Blood Trials ends. We see a rapid change in the dynamics of the group, specifically Reed and Ikenna. Their relationship changing was satisfying and steamy.
The first book was mainly about what they went through to become a Praetorian; this book is about war. The realities of being in war. How being a soldier means you do what your higher ups command without much question. What power can do to people and how self interested people can be.
So much occurs, no one really has time to rest until the end, and even then, do they have time to rest? Pretty much all of the loose ends in the first book were tied up and I think done so successfully.
The pacing was a bit off, but I don’t think the author is to blame because if my intel is correct, it was originally meant to be a trilogy. That’s on publishing.
It is interesting what one person can mean to different people. Ikenna’s grandfather was a misguided lover to one, a mentor to another, an enemy, a traitor, a hardass father, a savior, a warrior, Ikenna’s everything. I think the way it’s subtlety woven through the story is a nice reminder of the complexity of who people are and how they present.
OVERALL
Overall, I give this book 4/5 stars. I was satisfied with it as a follow up to The Blood Trials. I honestly want to see more of their story.