The Vampire's Curse

at Blackthorn Manor

By: Jade Christy

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A haunted manor. A deadly secret. A vampire who should be her enemy.

Charlotte Marlowe has spent her career fighting the guilty. She’s not afraid of the darkness—until she inherits Blackthorn Manor.

Hidden within its walls are more than just ghosts. A seductive yet cursed vampire with centuries of secrets. A power in her blood she never knew existed. And horrifying entities contained beneath the manor that are… waiting and wanting.
Now, Charlotte must navigate a dangerous new world where witches, vampires, ghosts and ancient magic collide. But the greatest danger of all? The undeniable pull toward Adrian de Lanier, the vampire who might be her only ally… or her greatest threat.

Some legacies are written in blood. Some love stories are destined to end in darkness. And some secrets should never be uncovered…
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[There is a cliffhanger at the end of the spicy book, leading to Book 2. This is a 4 book series. Main tropes are strangers to lovers, forced proximity, good vs evil, vampire lore, witch lore. If you loved Dark Shadows, A Discovery of Witches and Twilight, you'll love this.]

Maybe not Whisper Voice

The storyline wasn't horrible, but did feel rushed. However, having it read by Whisper Voice made it comical. The more intimate scenes lacked the intensity of the acts I feel the author was trying to convey. Instead, the automated reading caused the wrong types of punctuation, inflection, type of excitement... I did get a good laugh though.

Vampires and witches

A manor, that needs to have someone to take care of it and keep secrets at bay. To have ghosts and vampires in this story along with witches, it is an amazing story so far. Wander who Charlet can trust. Finding out about the past and how things have become. I cannot wait to get to the next book.

Awful narration.

Virtual voice is AWFUL. can’t tell the difference between characters there’s no voice change. So monotone no acting.
Really detracts from the actual story it’s so monotone there’s chunks my mind tunes out and I’m like what just happened?

cringy

How can one make a hot vampire give you the ick? Read this and you'll know cause wow. This should have been good only for you to dislike the main character and her lover. They're genuinely lame and lack critical thinking, and considering the FMC is a defense attorney... Point being not worth the read.

Has Potential - but why a British, male, AI narrat

This story had so much potential. I don't mind the AI narration, usually. However, when the character is FEMALE, I expect the AI narrator to be female also. This was a British male; weird. Story was drawn out...I couldn't even finish it.