Bite the Woman That Feeds

Dirty Blood, Book 1

De: Penelope Barsetti

Narrado por: Ramona Master, Michael Ferraiuolo

A sickness has claimed the kingdoms of men. Everyone is either sick or dying, weak to a curse that has no cure—except for me. I’m immune to this mysterious illness, and I do my best to heal the sick and ease the pain of the dying. I was supposed to marry the Prince of Raventower, but after his father and elder brother succumbed to the sickness, he’s now king—and can only marry someone of his station.

Kingsnake, King of Vampires and Lord of Darkness, marches upon our gates and demands a handful of our healthiest citizens. The vampires have always stuck to their lands, but their lack of food has made them desperate. King Elias not only succumbs to his demands—he offers me on the condition that Kingsnake never return. The man I loved betrayed me—and will feed me to a monster.

Prisoner to the vampire king, I witness his cruelty and malice first-hand. I knew I would hate him, but I didn’t know how much I would hate him. The feeling is mutual, because I can feel the emotions of those around me, and his emotions burn with rage anytime he’s in my presence. But the second he tastes my blood, everything changes.

His anger is replaced by an intensity I’ve never felt in my life. It’s so powerful it smothers me until I can’t breathe. His stare is like wildfire, so searing hot it makes my skin melt. I know he wants me—and he wants me more than anyone else ever has. Even the man I loved never wanted me like this… I would never sleep with a vampire…but Kingsnake is no ordinary vampire.

©2023 Penelope Barsetti (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Perfect world building

World building
Spice
Strong female lead
War
Revenge
Miss placed hate
Vampires, werewolf’s, humans, “gods”

Just wow!

I don’t know what I was originally expecting but this far surpassed any notion I had diving into this blindly.

So freaking good

Yessssss

This is amazing story great build just as amazing as the buttons story love it so much

Such an amazing story!

I probably should have seen the outcome but I did not! It was so good the character motives were on point!

My only slight is that I didn’t fall in love with the voice actors.

But this book was good enough that it carried them the rest of the way!

audio is rough

This is one of my fav books and it's unfornate this audio is rough. I feel like I am either listening to an AI audio, or like a 1900s radio story. I have never left a review this negative on any book ever, but lord I feel like I just set up my phone to read this to me. It's so bad.

Good story

I was not on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading. I actually took several breaks from this book which is something I normally don't do with audiobooks. It was a good story, it just was maybe a little bit slow... I'm not sure. It just didn't keep my interest well. Also I do not think that the narrators fit the characters; the male more so than the female. She did a pretty good job, but as with most of the female narrators she kind of hurt my ears. Overall, I think I recommend but am seriously on the fence.

loved it

I would really enjoyed this book! can't wait for book 2! I also liked the fmc!

Good overall but no true ending

The story line was good. The narration was good. I just hate when I don’t know there was an ending and you have to get the next book. Other than that I was good

Great story!!

I’m so surprised the total rating of this book isn’t higher than it is! Great plot, fast-paced & smart banter between characters. Plot is full of one adventure after another. Highly recommend

Good start to a new series

I did not read anything - reviews or even the plot summary before starting this book so boy was I in for a surprise. The storyline of this book is about a world where there are many different creatures other than humans in this world vampires, orcs, elves). In the vampire world, there are different factions of vampires- and they all seem to have taken names from the snake kingdom (i.e. Kingsnake, Cobra, etc). Anyway, the Vampires definitely need human blood to survive and some kingdoms of the vampires take them forcefully (they are referred to as prey) and others have humans that willingly volunteer to donate blood for various reasons.

In this world, one particular territory - Grayson, the realm of Kingsnake- all of a sudden has had a plague hit the humans and they are dying off extremely rapidly. If the humans get sick and a Vampire feeds on a sick human, that impacts the Vampire as well. There is one human woman who seems to be immune from the plague and her name is Larissa.

The King of the Grayson territory goes to this human realm and demands 8 humans as feeders - with Larissa being one of them and so it begins.

Larissa's blood is not only powerful, but it gives the King strength and power that he has not has in many centuries. And soon, everyone wants her. Some to kill her, others to have her.

Larissa starts of hating the Vampires, but eventually begins to understand them and especially begins to have a relationship with the King. So - that is where things get interesting.

This world is unique and interesting. There are many, many things that we are just discovering along with Larissa. The longer we stay in this land and the more characters we meet, the more we realize that there is a heck of a lot going on between the various factions. There are the Originals, the Elves (who have portrayed themselves as gods to the humans for centuries), the different factions of Vampires and werewolves...to name a few.

So- things are getting interesting.....