Blood Slave Review

For the last couple of weeks I have been reading Blood Slave by Travis Luedke, which is part of his larger The Night Life series. 

To be honest this book is going to be a little hard to review - not because it’s bad or anything, it’s just that there is a lot of sex and adult themes in it and I like to try and keep this blog family friendly. 

So I’ll start by saying this: this isn’t a children’s book or a novel for teenagers. I know vampire novels are all the rage with the teen demographic right now but this is absolutely nothing like Twilight. In fact, once you have read Blood Slave, you will definitely see the vampires in Twilight as a bunch of pansies. 

But I digress. Blood Slave is told in the first person narrative by our protagonist, Hope. Hope is an ‘escort’ for lack of a better word - and is trapped on the prostitution circuit. Her life changes over night though when she meets a woman called Lia, who she quickly learns is a vampire. Once Lia realises that she cannot brainwash Hope from remembering their evening together, she takes her home to her master, Enrique, where they try to figure out what to do with her. Hope is allowed to live but at the cost of being a blood slave, which basically means sleeping with vampires and never seeing anyone she used to know ever again to keep their existence secret. 

 

However, it is not all bad as Enrique treats Hope like a princess and over time she is accepted into his mini-vampire family. Yet as the story reaches its climax, Hope’s happy new life is shattered when her old one comes back to haunt her. 

If you liked Tru Blood, you’ll probably really like this. It is very dark, gritty and does not squirm away from adult themes and it is very gripping - you will not be able to put it down.

You know when you see a violent or bloody scene in a movie and you cover your eyes for a couple of seconds until it has past? I caught myself doing that with this book, then I realised that the lines were not going to go away until I read them. I’ve never done that before, so it shows you how violent and gritty this tale is. 

I can honestly say I’ll be reading the sequels and I suggest you do too. 

 

Blood Slave gets 9/10. 

It's available for Kindle here.