Book Blurb:
How do you survive when you become the one thing you despise?
It’s vamps like Roric who make humans believe vampires have a right to live in human society. He doesn’t drink from humans, he’s never even taken a vein, and the idea of infecting a human is abhorrent to him. As leader of the Vampire Enforcement Agency, his job is to find and capture the vamps who betray humans’ recently-earned trust. Until one human woman tempts him to break all the rules.
When Roric intercepts a rogue vamp attack and finds Caroline dying, he can’t resist her blood or beauty, and in a moment of passion he does the unthinkable. But Caroline despises the monsters who killed her parents, and she’d rather die than be a vampire.
With vamp attacks at an all-time high and Caroline resisting Roric at every turn, his job, his family, even his life is at risk. Worse, Caroline's attacker wants her just as bad as Roric does, and he knows Roric’s secret. Roric will do anything to earn Caroline’s trust, but can he keep her safe long enough to convince her that life as a vampire isn’t a death sentence?
If you like sexy, thrilling paranormal romance/urban fantasy stories by authors like JR Ward, Bella Forrest, and IT Lucas, you’ll love Compelled by the Vampire.
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My Review:
3.5 Out Of 5 Stars
Genre: Romance, Supernatural, Suspense, Vampires--
Caroline has hated vampires regardless of propaganda as them being so wonderful ever since one killed her parents. When she convinces a woman at her job to leave a vampire persuing her, she feels like she potentially saved a life. On her way home from work she decides to visit her parent's graves at the cemetary, with no idea that she is being stalked. She ruined someone's night and he is dead set on getting revenge.
The world was really interesting, putting a new spin on vampires. It kind of reminded me of that futuristic vampire movie Daybreakers, where vampires are known and humans have to deal with it- but in a more positive way than in the movie. Vampires have always walked besides man, but man never knew. But now they openly coexist, with their own law enforcement agency and blood banks for donors- all very civilized...that is until a rogue tries to change everything. I liked how under the primary conflict of Caroline's attack we also have vampire civil unrest and the potential for more conflicts. Everything was woven together nicely, but with the romance (and sexy time) as a primary focus.
Compelled by the Vampire is told from three different narrators: Caroline, Roric and . Caroline despises all that is vampire yet at almost the beginning of the book she is turned into the very things she despises. I liked watching her character arc as she came to terms with her new life as well as her feelings towards what she had always thought of as her "enemy". I also enjoyed how independent she was and her ability to roll with the crazy that her life became. Roric was a very strict, structured person who for the first time in his life completely threw his rule book out. One night of doing things so different from his usual ended up changing his life forever, regardless of how resistant to it he was. And then we have Taven, the complete rule breaker, who has to choose if he sill step up or not.
This is very much not the end of this story, actually it has a cliff hanger ending where pretty much nothing gets resolved and more problems arise! You will have to pick up the next book in the series, Obsessed with the Vampire, to see what happens with the vampire agenda conflict as well as the romance between Caroline and Roric.
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