Title: Haven
Series: Tranquilli Bloodline Book #1
Stand Alone Title: yes
Author: Celia Breslin
Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy
Blurb: San Francisco nightclub owner Carina Tranquilli works hard, plays hard, and never allows the death of her parents and her twelve-year memory gap to get her down. But her life takes a left turn when a witch attacks her on her twenty-fifth birthday.
Three hauntingly familiar vampires emerge to reveal she possesses a latent power. To protect her from their enemies, they admit to wiping her memories clean and abandoning her as a child, but now they need her help. As she struggles to evade her new protectors and even newer enemies, she meets Alexander, an enigmatic, undead musician. Insta-lust flares, leaving her wanting more.
With evil’s minions hounding her every move, and everything she thought she knew turned on its head, Carina must harness her burgeoning power, unravel her vampire family’s web of deceit, and fight to have a love life…without getting killed in the process.
Thoughts: The concept and originality of the book is what really kept me reading from the beginning. As a reader, I just wanted to see what happens and where the author is going with the story. Unfortunately, Carina’s absurd one-track mind on a ‘potential boyfriend’ started to wear on my nerves. I got the fact that there is a string connection….I got the fact that he is somewhat like a ‘betrothed’ for her in some kind of arranged marriage…..what irritated me was that no matter how dire the situation or what kind of catastrophe was happening, her immediate focus would zoom in on him to a ridiculous level. For example, her ears perking up just because his name is mentioned and then instant ‘Is he supposed to be here? Where? When?’ I could overlook the first two or three times, but then I had just had enough. It outweighed my interest in seeing how it ends at that point.
Rating: n/a
