The Last Vampire: Book One

By: Jaelynn Woolf, R. A. Stefan

Narrated by: Gwendolyn Druyor

There’s a smokin’ hot dead guy locked in my garden shed. That part’s bad enough. But now, he’s trying to get out.

Growing up, my father always told me that I’d come to a bad end, just like my mom did when I was a kid. Hearing that kind of stuff when you’re little eventually gets to a girl, but I can’t say I ever expected my "bad end" to involve an angry vampire with a severe case of iron deficiency and a panty-melting English accent.

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. Ever since my mother was assassinated, I’ve felt like there was something vast and frightening hidden beneath the fabric of the world - something none of us are supposed to know about.

So far, finding out I was right hasn’t been nearly as satisfying as I’d hoped. I guess the trick will be staying alive long enough to shout, "I told you so" from the rooftops.

But before I can do that, I really need to figure out if the vampire who just bit me is one of the good guys or not.

The Last Vampire is a steamy, new urban fantasy romance series from USA Today best-selling author R. A. Steffan and Jaelynn Woolf, co-authors of the Circle of Blood saga.

Download book one today, and enter a world shared by humans, fae, demons, and one very reluctant vampire. It’s a place where the supernatural threatens the mundane, nothing is as it seems, and love will either be the world’s downfall - or its salvation.

©2018 R. A. Steffan (P)2018 R. A. Steffan

Exciting start to series

I received a free copy of the audio book in exchange for an honest review. I liked the story. It was exciting. It starts with the heroine being exposed to the supernatural world and takes off from there. As the story unfolds she learns things about herself. There are still a lot of mysteries to resolve. The book ends with a cliffhanger. I liked the H and h. I also liked the dynamic of them together. I look forward to seeing their relationship grow. The story is different and I liked that as well. I thought the narrator did a wonderful job. Her voice fit the heroine. Her male voices were great too. The timing and pacing was well done.

love it

I loved everything about this book i will be reading all of them in this SERIES

Unsure...

This book leaves room for potential fail or goodness for the rest of the series.. I will go on to book two in series to see how it goes. At this time the book is slow yet all over the place. It is possible that this book is all ground work.

Enjoyed It

I got this free story via audiobook boom and this is my voluntary review. I enjoyed this story and would have enjoyed it better with a different narrator. Sometimes she sounded like a little girl having a temper tantrum, sometimes she just sounded whiny. Even during the chase. The many twists that this story took drew me into it and I enjoyed several of the scenes with her interaction with her father. Although as I said she came off as a complaining little girl. I loved the dinner details and the way the war was interwoven into the story at different times to show why he was the last vampire. Overall this is a good story. The narrator kept pushing me out of the story but the story overall drew me back in.

Not what I expected

The Last Vampire by RA Steffan and Jaelynn Woolf was a really fun listen. The storyline is original and has some unexpected twists. I found myself pulled in from the very beginning. The performance by Gwendolyn Druyor is spot on. She adds the right emotions and brings the characters to life with her voice. I requested this review copy audiobook and have voluntarily written this review. I will definitely listen to more books by this author and narrator.

The narrator’s voice ruined it for me

The story seemed interesting, but the narrator’s constantly shaking/trembling voice got on my nerves. I couldn’t finish the story.

I am in awe of this heroine............

The Last Vampire is a wonderful combination of world building sci-fi, action and romance. The heroine, Zorah, is an amazing character. She has so many disadvantages - her mother was assassinated when Zorah was a young girl, her father is seemingly cold and uninterested in her, and she has a chronic pain condition for which there is no treatment - and yet she maintains a positive attitude, supports herself as a full-time waitress and volunteers her time at a center for mental health. Although she always feels better when she is in a sexual relationship, she seems to repel past boyfriends, and she has few close friends. None of this keeps Zorah from being strong willed and self sufficient with a fabulously snarky sense of humor. Without giving away too much, I'll just say that Zorah has always believed in the possibility of the super natural, since her mother's killer claimed that he was destroying a demon when he killed her.

One day, she finds what she thinks is a dead guy in her shed thanks to a huge bullet wound in his chest and no pulse, but he quickly rocks her world's foundations by knocking on her door, drinking her blood and leaving her with endless questions. Thus begins an exciting tale of Zorah discovering more about herself and her place in this super natural world, running from evil fae, meeting some wonderful super natural allies, and (of course) having some fun with her vampire, Rans. The story ends on a total cliff-hanger, but this just makes me more excited to start book two as soon as possible.

Gwendolyn Druyor did her usual fantastic job with the narration. She added the perfect level of bubbly versus snarky that is Zorah's personality, and her delivery of Rans British accent was very smooth and sexy. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite narrators.

I received a copy of this audiobook at my request in exchange for this honest review.

decent book!!

I didnt' expect much out of this book, but it ended up not being bad once you got into it. I recommend!

Fantastic First In Series

Zorah's journey of self discovery is just beginning in this fast paced, keep you up reading all night, fantastic first in series. This book grabs you from the start and doesn't let go until long after you have stopped reading. I quickly became invested in Zorah's story. Although this is a paranormal read Zorah is extremely relatable. The narrator is amazing bringing the story to life with perfect pacing and easy to understand yet distinguishable character voices. I am excited to see where Zorah's journey leads next - no matter where it is I know it will be filled with non stop action, laughs and romance.

Promising start to this paranormal series

A promising start to this paranormal series! A very intriguing storyline, my attention was captured with the opening scene of a mysterious (potentially) dead man, and while knowing the title of the book “The Last Vampire”, I knew I would want to discover the who, what, and why, and how Zorah would fit into it all. I was pleasantly surprised with how the story unfolded, incorporating other paranormal creatures and a history of war not known to humankind. I love that Rans is quite the laid back, snarky vampire and balances Zorah’s worrisome, panicky personality. But hey, who wouldn’t be panicky learning about vampires? The authors do a great job of layering the suspense, while slowly uncovering detail after detail that connect Zorah to a paranormal world that she never realized. The twist of Zorah’s character definitely leads to some stimulating sex scenes, and curious how that will play out going forward. Ending with a cliffhanger, I’m definitely engaged enough to continue on and see what fate has in store for them. While narrator Gwendolyn Druyor did a great British male voice for Rans, I wasn’t too keen on how she performed for Zorah. It took me half the book to get used to the whiny, immature voice which was possibly meant to show Zorah’s lack of experience and backbone(?), but by the end the narrator grew on me and it wasn’t as bothersome.

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