Blood Traitor

The Blackthorne Vampires, Book 2

By: K. Loraine

Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Emma Wilder

Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Cashel Blackthorne took me captive.

I hated him.

I wanted him.

I fell for him.

Then everything I knew changed. I got away from the Blackthorne vampires, but they still want my blood. Living a nomadic life with a band of hunters, I learned how to fight and how to defend myself.

Now, I'm torn between the deep feelings I've developed for my captor and the new attraction I have for Logan, the rugged hunter who came for me.

Cashel Blackthorne may have taken my heart, but he also taught me a lesson....

Never trust a vampire.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 K. Loraine (P)2020 Tantor

sooo stuck in these 🤣

ok so I really wish it'd been done as a duet but still a great installment of the Blackthorne legacy. these are more slow burn then the current series the mate games but it's all tied together. it's not necessary to read either first but these would technically be the beginning
Plot 5/5 Spice 3/5 Cast: Male 10/10 Female 6/10
overall book score 8/10

Surprising!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌎
Character development: ☺️😉😀😘🥰

The heroine: Olivia Stewart - she is in love with Cashel Blackthorne, taken by Logan and the hunters, she doesn’t know what is true and what is false.

The Hero: Cashel Blackthorne - he is accused of treason for killing his father, the king of the vampires and his brother who had sun sickness. Both of them had attacked Olivia. He is now in the custody of the council.

The Story: Logan and the hunters give Olivia a new side of the vampire story, showing her how she had been used and abused. They taught her to fight like the hunters, with silver and stakes. When Cashel didn’t come for her, Olivia had to let him go and prepare for a life without him. While she still had the blood that would draw vampires to her, she had to stay with the hunters and learn to protect herself.

This book was told in dual points of view via dual narration. Like Blood Captive, it was narrated by Emma Wilder and Aaron Shedlock. Emma Wilder has a soft feminine voice and she portrays anxiety well with her voice. Aaron Shedlock has a gravely voice which matched Cashel.

I liked this storyline but really wish this book and the prior one would have explained things better, like sun sickness and Olivia’s blood. I was glad that the hunters did provide Olivia with more information on her past and her mother’s murder. I like how this series has so many enemies and so much going on.

Communication is so important!!

Performance: Emma really does Cashel’s voice so well I almost like it better than Aaron’s version. However, I could listen to Aaron read Apple terms and conditions so still love him as well

Story: At least half of the angst in this story could have been solved by better communication. I was a bit disappointed in how quickly Olivia and Cashel doubted each other. It didn’t take much influence from outside sources for them to turn on each other. They do eventually find their way back to each other briefly until more chaos ensues. The cliffhanger is brutal especially if you haven’t read/listened to Mate Games but I have jumped into the next book already.

Great second act in the Blackthorne Trilogy

I really enjoyed this vampire romance trilogy from K. Loraine, narrated well by Aaron Shedlock and Emma Wilder.

K. Loraine crafted a thoroughly engaging trilogy that had you hooked from beginning to end. The story was well-crafted and developed, and had a lot of twists and turns that had you wondering what was going to happen, and had you screaming at your kindle on occasion.

This second act is a great bridge, and a good story within it's own rights in the trilogy. The setup for the final act was full of drama and intrigue, and I can't wait to listen to the conclusion.

Aaron Shedlock and Emma Wilder narrated this series beautifully. The emotion that the captured and expressed was the perfect compliment to the story written by K. Loraine.

Wow!

What a fantastic book! So many twists and turns had my head spinning. then the end...gah! The narrators were amazing as usual!

So exciting

This book had so much going on; at times I can’t stand Callie; just too gullible. Of course another cliffhanger ending. Narrators are superb. On to the next book!

ugh..

Seriously, how do you go in a complete circle and wind up in exactly the same place in book #2... its annoying. Same exact plot all over again and its just as disappointing as the first.