Blood Politics

Blood Destiny, Book 4

By: Helen Harper

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

You'd think that life would finally be dealing Mack Smith a kind hand. Living in London and with the opening of the new and improved city version of Clava Books mere days away, things appear to be settling down.

Other than the terrible nightmares about dragons, that is. Or the fact that she's being constantly tailed by a string of mages, shifters, and faeries, all of whom are constantly demanding her attention. And that's without even bringing the temptation of Corrigan, Lord Alpha of the Brethren, into the equation. Then, when a local dryad asks her for some help, things really start to fire up. There are some long, hot summer days ahead.…

©2013 Helen Harper (P)2014 Tantor

Fantastic series, kept me in suspense !

I have read several of HELEN HARPER books and have yet to find a bad one!.... She is a fantastic author with the ability to weave you into her world! Bravo!

Epic!

I love Mack and all her adventures. The Blood Destiny series is epic! I love Helen Harper and Saskia Maarleveld!

Series is getting worse instead of better

Why does a good heroine have to become immature, emotionally stunted as the storie continues. The capable woman from book 1 now throws tantrums, makes mistakes, and has developed horrible judgement. I'm done here. I don't want to watch Mac in her playpen anymore.

Loved Mac Attack!

I listened to this as I was working around at home and the day flew by! I love everything about the story.

Overall Good

Spoiler Warrning


I liked the story but I didn't find the end believable. Breaking a coue up for the sake of drama is just annoying. And I feel like it was out of character for Mack to not demand a minute to explain things to Corrigan.

Blood Destiny Series

Love all the books! I have already purchased the next book! I don't give reviews normally. But out of the extensive library I now own; I needed to give a shout about this series!

Extreme F word still no control

extreme F word still can't control temper
author did a disserves to the book series

Too many sidelines

This book took way too many turns for me. And too much whining by the cast of characters. Pick one story line, two at most and deal with it.

Great... until the end

I am in complete agreement with another reviewer here when it comes to this book. The story was excellent until the very end when drama took priority over the characters' personalities. Complete reversals in a character's nature for the pure sake of needless extra drama is completely unnecessary and really detracts from the quality of the writing. I expected an argument. I expected a defense. I expected something... but there was only dejection. People can get down from time to time, but this was completely unbelievable in this particular character to the point that it detracted from the story. The author could easily have kept a good amount of drama while staying within the limits of reason.

Disappointing - Quality Sacrificed to Create Drama

What would have made Blood Politics better?

I think the author knew that she wanted certain things to happen in the end, so she came up with events that would lead to that conclusion- BUT, the events were out of character for both Mac & Corrigan. Corrigan goes from being mr. understanding and patient to mr. unreasonable and irrational, and it doesn't make any sense. There were two main instances where he got angry, to different degrees, with Mac for prioritizing saving lives over whatever was going on with them. Has he MET her? And, seriously, he's the leader of the entire shifter world, like he doesn't know about that kind of sacrifice? I don't blame him for being upset or disappointed or whatever, but it made no sense for him to be mad at her, especially the time towards the end of the book (won't give it away, don't worry). It was totally obvious why Mac did what she did, and although I wouldn't expect him to be happy about it, I WOULD expect him to understand. The fact that he didn't understand makes me just not like him very much. He was being a selfish jerk, yet Mac is the one who is apologizing. Also, it's one thing for him to be mad, but another thing for him to act the way he did etc. That was just ridiculous, and I found myself rolling my eyes. Mac also did things totally against her character. She's pig headed and stubborn and doesn't give a crap what other people say or think, yet suddenly towards the end she lets another character bully her into a ridiculous situation that was so contrived. I get why she agreed to what the other character wanted, but not the manner in which it was carried out. The author tried to give a reason or why she went with things that way, but it fell flat. Plus, both of them were total idiots in the park while waiting for the threat to arrive, like they knew when or how or where it would come? Seriously? I know that the author is trying to keep the tension and drama going, but it just didn't really work. It was too extreme and, well, it just annoyed me. The events were just too obviously plot devices to achieve certain goals, instead of events that made sense within the context of the story and the characters.I will, of course, listen to the next book whenever it comes out because I'm totally attached to the characters. If it's as ridiculous as this one though, then it will be my last.