The Black Lily (Vampire Blood, #1)

by Juliette Cross

Every day, the threat the Varis family poses to the humans they rule over grows stronger. Every minute that Arabelle spends doing chores for vain, entitled aristocrats, her resolve to overthrow the vampire monarchy increases. She is the leader of the underground resistance, The Black Lily. And she’s waited long enough.

Now is the perfect time to ignite the rebellion. The plan? Attend the vampire prince’s blood ball. And kill him.

Dagger in hand, Arabelle is caught off guard by the immediate spark she shares with Prince Marius. It doesn’t help that he’s listening to her and seems so kind and understanding.

Arabelle is sworn to kill Marius at all costs, but what if Prince Charming is more than he appears to be? But the big question? Now that he knows the truth, can she do what she must to save her people?

• ISBN10: 1682814564
• ISBN13: 9781682814567
• Publish Date: 20 March 2017 (first published 27 February 2017)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Entangled Publishing
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 300
• Language: English

Reviews

[stacey_is_sassy]

Not a fan of the cover but the story was OK.

***3.5 Stars***

It's hard to fall for a hero when I can see him (on the cover) and he doesn't do it for me. The long flowy hair, weird eyes and his need to show off his manly chest does not make my heart go pitter patter. Then, when I meet him and get to know him, I find out that he's betrothed AND uses a blood concubine, I was not jumping for joy. But, not everything is as it seems. Our manly chested hero isn't happy and a cut to the heart changes everything.

The Black Lily is about a woman sick of seeing her friends in service being treated badly by their employers, the nobility,and the ruling vampires. When she becomes aware of people in her community being bled dry, the Black Lily decides to start a revolution. First step, infiltrate the tower and put a knife through her enemy.

Well, things don't go to plan and the revolution gets put on hold. Her blood sings to him and his manly chest makes her heart flutter, so these enemies must adjust their plans. Yadda...yadda... yep...yep...yep... moving on.

Now, the bit that was pretty cool...we get to meet this cool chick called Sirena who lives in a forest with her friends the wolves. I really liked her and I'm guessing the wolves have their own stories to tell and I wanted to know a lot more about them.

I was happy how the story played out, sad that one of my favourite characters was sacrificed and interested to continue and hopefully see justice served.