Thicker Than Blood, an all-new chosen mates, paranormal, M/M romance from bestselling author Mia Monroe is now available!
Geordi
Five years ago, humans found out in the most violent way possible that vampires do in fact exist. After the uprising, the two sides settled on three rules to keep both groups safe — vampires can’t use compulsion, humans can’t hunt them, and absolutely no romance between the two groups. I lost a lot, but I found my purpose— researching what makes vampires different from mortals to help us coexist peacefully.
I like following rules and things were fine until I went rogue, testing a vaccine to create an impenetrable shield against compulsion. I needed a vampire to work with me, so I chose Elias Caswell, the powerful and only slightly terrifying centuries-old vampire who’s played a starring role in my fantasy life for ages.
Elias is a hedonist, and as he introduces me to his world, he quickly unravels my carefully constructed plans. When the vaccine is stolen and the city descends into chaos, my life is in danger, and I’m forced to face a traumatic secret of my own.
I need to find an antidote, restore the peace, and with Elias convinced I’m his consort, try to resist a bond that’s thicker than blood. Should be easy.
Right, and Vlad the Impaler just wanted to cuddle.
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Thicker Than Blood by Mia Monroe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Geordi is a researcher, studying vampires to come up with a vaccine to make a vampire unable to compel a human. He finally get to meet Elias the vampire leader. He’s had a crush on him for years and meeting him is the culmination he’s longed for. Elias is a thousand years old, the oldest vampire alive (undead?). He senses in Geordi something he’s never felt before and desperately wants to turn him.
The mystery of who was murdering humans while interesting it didn’t really feel important. I felt it was in the story just to bring Geordi and Elias together. The debauchery of Elias’ club was unexpected and an interesting look at the world of these particular vampires. Geordi’s seemingly lack of shock was unusual and the unrepentant nature of the vampires was refreshing and different. New lore is always welcome and there was a lot in this story.
This book felt rushed, like the author just wanted to get to the end. Their love story seemed more about Elias’ needs and less about sharing and learning together.
I also thought that the secondary characters were more likable. Their importance to the book added a lot of depth and I would like to see more of them. They were the reason I gave the book four stars instead of three.
Review Copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads.
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Wailing sirens shatter the silence of night, startling me out of a deep sleep. I shoot upright, rubbing my eyes and groaning from the headache caused by too much celebratory birthday champagne hours earlier.
Awareness grips my chest. The sirens. Fuck.
Launching myself out of bed, I grope around the floor for my jeans, tugging them on just as my phone buzzes across the nightstand.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Hopping over on one leg, I grab for my phone and press the button to answer. “Geordi.”
“Get your ass over to the city center, stat.” Meredith, my boss at the research center, sounds panicked in a way that makes my heart race even faster.
“Already getting dressed. I’ll be there in less than ten.”
“Bring your camera.”
The call ends, and I shove my phone into my back pocket before finding a shirt and sliding my foot into my boot. I hobble to the living room, still wrestling with the second boot, but I don’t have time to sit down and dress properly like a normal person.
This is an emergency.
I’m out the door minutes later, my camera bag on my shoulder over my bulky coat. It must be twenty degrees outside, and as I make it to my car in the apartment building lot, I’m silently thankful for the forecast being wrong and the snow stopping hours earlier than planned. I don’t have time to brush my car off.
Not waiting for the car to warm up, I tear off, patting my dashboard. “Sorry, old girl. I’m in a rush.”
My beat-up sedan sputters down the snow packed street, but I know Brenda’s a reliable car no matter how hard I push her. Luckily, it takes less than five minutes to get to the city center since there’s virtually no traffic at this hour.
As I pull into the lot adjacent to the park, the sight that greets me makes my stomach plummet. I exit the car, moving in stunned slow motion.
Oh no. Not this.
Meredith sees me, her normally smiling face creased with concern, and waves me over. She’s standing with the mayor, Luci Ferguson, and the chief of police, Bernard Canales. At their feet is a body.
“Vampire attack,” Meredith says when I reach them, entirely unnecessarily.
Given that I research vampires for a living, I’m intimately acquainted with what an attack looks like. Throat torn open, flesh and blood staining the pure white snow, the victim’s eyes forever open and frozen in terror. Nothing else kills like a vampire.
But then Meredith squeezes my shoulder and gestures to the park. Through the dark, my eyes focus, and I gasp. Bodies litter the ground, the fluffy white snow soiled by splattered blood and flesh. There must be…
“Forty-two people,” Meredith says.
A shiver goes down my spine and I’m positive it’s not the cold causing it.
“Why? Do we know?”
She shakes her head. “Not yet, but this is clearly a message.”
A wave of phones buzzing and pinging drowns out my thoughts and we all look down at the same time as notifications light up our screens.
Photo after photo of parks and streets, just like ours, pop up on the news channels, more bodies frozen at the moment of their death.
I shake my head as the reality of what’s happening grips me. “Mere.”
“Fuck,” she mutters. “Why are they doing this? The treaty…”
“Someone doesn’t give a fuck about the treaty,” Bernard replies through gritted teeth. “The vampires have gone rogue.”
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