3.5 Stars. I love it when authors take a typical fantasy and change it up. But I think if you are changing the typical theme of a fantasy species you need to fully explain the changes you made. Not drop in bits and pieces of the changes. Vampires only feeding from vampires to keep the bloodlines pure, sure I can sort of see that. Not that liquid that is sealed goes into your bloodstream but it’s fictional so why not. The auras could have been explained just a bit. The reader has to infer everything based on the contextual clues which could in the end not be interpreted correctly. Hopefully the second book explains more items and closes some question out.