Blood Bound

A Lowrance Vampires Novel

De: R.J. Blain

Narrado por: Tracey Rooney

After waking in a shallow grave and clawing her way to freedom, Penelope Francis hunts for the rogue who stole her life and transformed her into a vampire. Despite being corrupted into a feared preternatural, she clings to her humanity and refuses to prey on innocents, instead slaking her thirst on other miscreant vampires.

In exchange for a chance at revenge, she joins forces with the charismatic master of the Lowrance brood, a choice that may spell the salvation—or destruction—of humanity as she knows it.

©2020 Pen & Page Publishing, R.J. Blain (P)2020 Pen & Page Publishing, R.J. Blain

Strong woman.

Sometimes it was too much. It was overall a good story with good narration. I almost quit listening but needed to go to the end.

Lack of Emotion

I really enjoy this series. The humor is great, the plot is interesting, & there are multiple concepts that feel original that I have rarely, if ever, seen in any other books, such as the concept of sentient stakes. It's 1 of my favorite series and I've eagerly been awaiting the 3rd book for yrs. However this was my 1st time encountering the Audiobook & I honestly found it was a bit disappointing. I felt that it was lacking in emotion and some of the character voices weren't close to how the character was described in the book. Overall it wasn't a bad Audiobook, but it could've been much better...

The readers in this series are just awful

It is really too bad the readers are so awful because these books are good. They ruin it.

slowest moving arc ever

as the title says, The ark itself is pretty good. it's got a good theme, plot, and characters that do build on themselves.
but holy hell the author uses the word "brood" 3,789 times; "bride" 442 times, and "blood" 1,457 times.
I mean come on. we get it. They're vampires that live in a group called a brood. The women live separately and don't mix well.
The author seems to have set this book up as the beginning of an EXTREMELY long series. but there is only a second book and it's been released for over 2 years now. there are a lot of side plots that would make their own books, but it leaves a lot of things open at the end of this one.
and honestly there's so little movements and action in this book that it makes you really want to read the second one in order to find the action. but I will warn you, do not listen this book if you're trying to stay awake. it's good, but there's just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk *big breath in* talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk. there's a few minutes of action at the beginning and it makes you think 'wow this is going to be a fun-filled adventure'. then it's like 5 hours of just slooooow story building.
about 3/4 of the way through there's about 10 more minutes of action. then it just kind of ends after about 45 minutes of no more action.
Come on there's not even any flirting. No great sex scene. Nothing.
I literally fell asleep three or four times trying to listen to it. then I had to go back and find the last place that I remember hearing it and start it over again.
This was on the "free with membership" list, and I did pay close to $6 for the second book. I really want to see where it's going. but I will not be spending any more money on future books if the second one does not produce at least some sort of adventure. it's like the author tried to start a great story, and she knew where she wanted to go, but she couldn't figure out how to get it there. So she just ended it. I'm hoping she got her mind put together and organized and put it in the second book. Now I'm off to find out.
oh and there are quite a few moments in the story where the narrator is clearly chewing gum or eating or picking her teeth? I'm not really sure, but she's doing something with her mouth besides narrating.

Bland and Boring 30 YO MarySue

I couldn’t finish. Good grief was this boring. Which makes me mad because the narrator is someone other than this authors other books, I was excited to listen. Her other books were ok but that narrator was horrible.

This narrator isn’t the best but at least she doesn’t grate on my nerves nor gives me headaches so that’s a plus. The issue is this book is BORING. All the characters are so bland.

I’m 68% and literally nothing happened yet. It’s just going thru the boring life of a 31 year old lawyer. Even the banter was boomer humor. The MMC is the stereotypical British old school uptight vampire. Even the flirting was cringy.

Even now I can’t begin to tell you what’s going on because I literally tune it out. Is this one of those “over 40” books the market is saturated with? I find those books boring too. I don’t get how authors can’t find a balance between a 18 year old MarySue and a 40 year MarySue. Lol what is going on???