V Games: Fresh From The Grave (Vampire Games, #2)

by Caroline Peckham

• ASIN: B076VJPDY1
• Publish Date: 2017
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 451
• Language: English

Reviews

[anastasia]

Full Review on my blog!

*a copy was provided by the author*

AHHHHMAZINGGGGG!

After reading and LOVING the first book, I absolutely needed to read this! And let me tell you I just DEVOURED this novel!!!
I was hooked from the very first page and was devastated when I finished it and now I’m desperately waiting for the next book!! I NEED IT NOW! LIKE right NOW~ haha *cries* I wish I had a time traveler thingy so I could just hop into the future to read the next book! Gahhh!

Sooo, V Games: Fresh from the Grave, starts off exactly where the first book ended. Selena escaped Raskdød, she's currently in the middle of the North Sea on a yacht, with no fuel, no food or water and only static when she tries to call the coastguard. If someone doesn't rescue her she'll probably die. She's at the point where she would rather be back on Raskdød with the Helsings than on a yacht in the middle of no where...  Sure enough, a boat sails up with a man named Ulvic, who comes to her aid, and he knows exactly who she is and while Selena doesn’t know if she can really trust him but she doesn't have much of a choice since staying on the yacht means death so, she takes her chance with him. Ulvic actually has his own island Skorpa, which he takes Selena to. Here she meets Ulvic's werewolves, Reason and Mekiah! I thought the werewolves were a nice addition! I know werewolves were in the first book, but they didn't really have a role until now.

Selena has a crazy plan to save Varick, she and Ulvic go all the way back to Raskdød. Which in my opinion was a bad idea, I would never, ever go back there :c ... Selena finds herself competing in the games once again, and while this time she has an idea of what to expect, she finds that the Helsings have raised the stakes with a whole new version of the games, on a whole new island, the Isle of Lidelse! Also, this time it’s HUGE, luxury hotel, strip club, casino, spa even the V Experience where you can actually kill vampires plus of course the games themselves. And let me tell you, IT IS BRUTAL! I thought the games in Book 1 were bad, these are so, sooo much worse! 

This is novel two; so I definitely don't want to ruin or spoil anything... Mhmm, maybe I kinda did spoil a few things buuuut, I mean, its soo hard for me to not tell you everything!! Oh and the cliffhanger; WoWW, WOOW, WOW! There were many things in this novel took that I was definitely not expecting. I absolutely love this world the author created. I love every aspect of this series; it's entertaining, action-packed, fast-paced, adrenaline pumping, intense and super twisted. 

I cannot wait until the next novel is released. I highly recommend this series!!

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Season 1:
V Games | Review
V Games: Fresh from the Grave | Review
V Games: Dead Before Dawn | Review

Season 2:
Wolf Games | Review
Wolf Games: Island of Shade | Review
Wolf Games: Severed Fate | Review

Season 3:
Hunter Trials | Review

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[Eve1972]

 
 
Wowza I am LOVING this series so far. This one was just as good as book one and now I might hunt down this author "MISERY" style and force her to give me book three right away (lol). Book two starts right where we left off in the previous book. Serena has escaped but is now stranded in the middle of the North Sea. Help finds her in the form of the mysterious Ulvic and she is taken to his island where together with his werewolves they hatch a plan to save Varick and Jameson. Alas, things don't work out too well and everyone finds themselves on a different island competing in a new and even more twisted and deadly version of the V Games. On the Isle of Lidelse we meet some new players and reconnect with some old ones. Games are played. Alliances are struck. Enemies become friends. Is it enough to bring the Helsings down? Well, I guess you must read for yourself and find out!



So deets...I found this one to be just as fantastically well written as book one. The pace was excellent. The plot was engaging and kept me turning the pages. We also get quite a few different POVs this time around. Sometimes this can be distracting, but it worked very well in this case. The focus of this one shifts a bit from Varick to Jameson, Ulvic, and the wolves. I didn't mind this because Jameson is such a likable character. He is the lighthearted comic to Varick's brooding vampire. We also meet some new characters that keep adding new layers to this ever developing paranormal world. Again, as this is YA the romance is pretty tame. Some kisses and that is about it but love seems to be in the air for some other characters (or maybe that is just the romance reader in me hoping for a couple other pair ups). I will admit that I was frustrated at times because I was tiring of the Helsings always having the upper hand. But the author threw me a bone at the end thankfully. Last, we again end this one on a cliffhanger and what a cliffy it was. So yea, loved this one and can't wait for book three. Two HUGE thumbs up from yours truly.