A Vampire's Heart

Ellowyn Found, Book 1

De: Kayleigh Sky

Narrado por: Darcy Stark

Vampires live.

And they hunger....

Otto Jones, a cop assigned to the seemingly random murder of a vampire, would rather hide out in the nearest bar than waste his time on a dead vamp. He hates the bloodthirsty demons. But when the king of the vampires commands him to work with one of the lesser princes and find the killer, he has no choice.

Prince Jessamine Senera is ready to sacrifice his happiness in a loveless marriage for his family’s benefit...but not yet. He dreams of adventure, excitement, and true love. He lives on romance novels and detective stories and wishes he could drink synthetic blood like every other vampire. But he can’t. He needs human blood to survive and is hated by vampires and humans alike.

As Otto and Jessa draw closer to an entity that doesn’t want to be discovered, Otto finds the heart he thought long dead opening to the romance-loving Jessa. No good can possibly come from falling in love with a vampire, but when a shadowy assailant attacks Jessa, Otto will descend into the darkest pit of the earth to rescue him.

If you like vampires, mythical and urban settings, intense suspense, and happily-ever-after, then you’ll love this first book in the dark and mysterious Ellowyn Found trilogy!

A Vampire’s Heart is a stand-alone paranormal dystopian noir romance with a satisfying conclusion to the love story and a central mystery that weaves the trilogy together.

©2018 Kayleigh Sky (P)2019 Kayleigh Sky

Mystery and slow burn romance

This book surprised me. It's my first read from this author and first listen from this narrator.

I am impressed with the world building. A world with vampires living among humans, after an epic war between two species.
I can see the parallelism between the real world and the fictional societal issues we face. Divide between races, discrimination, trying to get everybody to conform.
However, there are time that I get confused too. There are moments where it felt like information after information were just being dumped.

I like a good mystery. This book definitely has it. But can Otto's bitter resentment and anger towards what happened to Maisie be limited? Yes, what happened to Maisie was horrible.. but it felt like it was too repetitive.
Otto seemed like every move he makes is all about Maisie and couldn't see out of his own prejudice and his own dark cloud of bitterness and resentment.
I adore Jessa. A true romantic who is under the protective umbrella of his family and a fiance who really doesn't accept him as he is, but rather wanted to use him as a stepping stone for his social climbing ways.

It was definitely a slow burn for this two. The audio is long, 11 plus hours. It felt so slow. However, when they got together, it was worth those hours!

I didn't realize this was a series, but now that I know it is, I can't wait to see where this series leads.

Great story

I very much enjoyed A Vampires Heart. Kayleigh Sky is a new to me author...she did a great job with this story. I found the characters and plot to be very well thought out and interesting. Darcy Stark did a fantastic job with the narration. I always enjoy the books he performs.

Oooo vampires!!

This was an interesting story to listen too. I loved the plot and the idea of vampires in this type of role. The narrator made me fall in love with the characters, and brought the author’s vision to life! Definitely a great listen!

Vampire Mystery

Otto a jaded cop who hates vampires is partnered with Jessa a super sweet drainer vampire to solve a vampires murder. This is a slow burn mystery. There is a lot of world building so it took a little bit to understand all that was going on. This is an interesting, complex story. The slow development of the relationship between Otto and Jessa is a great accompaniment to the story. If you like a good mystery with a love story you'll enjoy this book. I would consider this a HFN, the love story reaches a satisfying conclusion, but the overall mystery is not fully resolved and will continue in other books. Narration was really good. It was a new narrator to me, but I really liked him.

The beginning was confusing for me to follow.

The first couple of chapters almost made me quite listen to this book. I’m not a big follower of vampire stories. Mentioning the different levels of families and all the folklore kind of threw me off. Once it got into the story with the killing and the MCs meeting made it easier to follow. I end up enjoying it a lot. Now that I’m hooked I hope there more coming for the other side characters.