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Laws Of The Blood #2
Partners
Vampire Enforcer Char forms an unlikely partnership with vampire hunter Jubal Haven to find a missing teenager-who's in the hands of a dark cult which may prove deadly to vampire and human alike.
279 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2000
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Susan Sizemore
116 books606 followersSusan Sizemore's life and interests include such varied activities as medieval costuming and embroidery, being a chef, and working in the defense industry.She is owned by her spoiled rotten, beloved mutt dog, rather than the other way around, and this is just fine with her.Current hobbies include hiking and studying t'ai chi. She travels whenever she can, loves history, loud music, movies, good coffee, and writes constantly.She hopes readers enjoy her stories as much as she enjoys writing them.She has won the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award and has been nominated for two Romantic Times awards.
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May 2, 2020
What a bizarre vampire series 'Laws of the Blood' is. But as bad as it is, it has a fascination.
The series is kind of an Old Testament Bible of stories on morality and history for vampires, since in this series the vampires are obliged to follow religion-based laws given by the Goddess that vampires must obey or the Enforcer vampire will kill them and eat them. It is totally the weirdest vampire series I've ever come across.
The first book in the series The Hunt was more serious than 'Partners'. This one is a comedy of love about a vampire killer, human, and an Enforcer, both a vampire and a vampire killer too, who end up liking each other. Actually, even though I'm skimming through the books at this point (not hard to pick up the action, easy read as the books are), it endures on my list of read books due to its amazing incredibly ridiculous, I can't look away, reality show of unbelievably silly and asinine creative plot devices that engage some interest for incomprehensible reasons.
I'm going on to the next in the series, Companions, in spite of my giggling at the utter complete insane schizophrenic logic behind this series. For god's sake. Not only are these vampires besotted with religious commandments with the same intensity as fundamentalist Jews, Christians, Muslims and Hindus, but the vampires also engage in ritualized punishments for transgressors of the faith as horrible as the Spanish Inquisitors and the human fundamentalists' stoning, cutting off of body parts and the other usual generally religion-sanctioned executions of sinners that all of the organized faiths in the world demand. I swear I'm reading Genesis, vampire version, New American Laws of the Blood translation. It makes the same kind of circular leaps of illogical logic of faith and rabid-crazy demented rules to enforce rigid, unquestioning righteous judgments that human religions do.
I didn't think ANYONE could have come up with a Left Behind for vampires, and a book series that surpasses the nuttiness behind the recent Jane Austin zombie books. Wow.
The series is kind of an Old Testament Bible of stories on morality and history for vampires, since in this series the vampires are obliged to follow religion-based laws given by the Goddess that vampires must obey or the Enforcer vampire will kill them and eat them. It is totally the weirdest vampire series I've ever come across.
The first book in the series The Hunt was more serious than 'Partners'. This one is a comedy of love about a vampire killer, human, and an Enforcer, both a vampire and a vampire killer too, who end up liking each other. Actually, even though I'm skimming through the books at this point (not hard to pick up the action, easy read as the books are), it endures on my list of read books due to its amazing incredibly ridiculous, I can't look away, reality show of unbelievably silly and asinine creative plot devices that engage some interest for incomprehensible reasons.
I'm going on to the next in the series, Companions, in spite of my giggling at the utter complete insane schizophrenic logic behind this series. For god's sake. Not only are these vampires besotted with religious commandments with the same intensity as fundamentalist Jews, Christians, Muslims and Hindus, but the vampires also engage in ritualized punishments for transgressors of the faith as horrible as the Spanish Inquisitors and the human fundamentalists' stoning, cutting off of body parts and the other usual generally religion-sanctioned executions of sinners that all of the organized faiths in the world demand. I swear I'm reading Genesis, vampire version, New American Laws of the Blood translation. It makes the same kind of circular leaps of illogical logic of faith and rabid-crazy demented rules to enforce rigid, unquestioning righteous judgments that human religions do.
I didn't think ANYONE could have come up with a Left Behind for vampires, and a book series that surpasses the nuttiness behind the recent Jane Austin zombie books. Wow.
March 13, 2022
Written by Susan Sizemore, and a follow up to The Hunt and second in The Laws of the Blood series, partners follows a different Enforcer, Char-a shy vampire who doesn’t want to eat things – and a ‘vampire’ hunter Jebel, who are hunting the same creature.
Warnings: many adult themes in this book.
I wasn’t expecting this second book to follow different characters, I loved Siri, but it ended up being worth it. Char is a fantastic, and very different, character who was engaging and I actually cared to see if anything would end up happening with her and Jebel.
Again, this one can be read by itself (I still recommend you read The Hunt first to understand the world a bit better), and is a great choice for any Urban Fantasy fan.
Warnings: many adult themes in this book.
I wasn’t expecting this second book to follow different characters, I loved Siri, but it ended up being worth it. Char is a fantastic, and very different, character who was engaging and I actually cared to see if anything would end up happening with her and Jebel.
Again, this one can be read by itself (I still recommend you read The Hunt first to understand the world a bit better), and is a great choice for any Urban Fantasy fan.
September 29, 2019
This is the original cover of the book I have with same ISBN.
May 10, 2008
Char is a reluctant enforcer. An enforcer is a vampire cop. She is happiest working among books. But she is sent to Seattle to find a troubled young vampire.
Once in Seattle, she gets orders to kill a dangerous vampire hunter, Jebel Haven. Jebel Haven is a dangerous man. He is a killer and former convict. He had cleaned out a nest of bad vampires in Arizona. However, Char is not a heartless killer. She won't hurt Jebel unless he is a dangerous threat to all vampires. She hides her vampire nature from Jebel. In doing so, she becomes romantically involved with him.
Demons and black magic are involved in the mystery of the missing teen. She can't fight demons, but Jebel can. So she works an uneasy alliance. Then Jebel discovers that she is a vampire, his natural enemy.
This is a sexy vampire novel. Jebel is a tough alpha male. While he knows that Char is much stronger physically than he is, he sees her as vulnerable. Char is emotionally vulnerable. Upon her transformation, her vampire lover abandoned her as the law dictates. Alone, she does not feel comfort within vampire society. She is as much an outsider in vampire society as Jebel is in human society.
Once in Seattle, she gets orders to kill a dangerous vampire hunter, Jebel Haven. Jebel Haven is a dangerous man. He is a killer and former convict. He had cleaned out a nest of bad vampires in Arizona. However, Char is not a heartless killer. She won't hurt Jebel unless he is a dangerous threat to all vampires. She hides her vampire nature from Jebel. In doing so, she becomes romantically involved with him.
Demons and black magic are involved in the mystery of the missing teen. She can't fight demons, but Jebel can. So she works an uneasy alliance. Then Jebel discovers that she is a vampire, his natural enemy.
This is a sexy vampire novel. Jebel is a tough alpha male. While he knows that Char is much stronger physically than he is, he sees her as vulnerable. Char is emotionally vulnerable. Upon her transformation, her vampire lover abandoned her as the law dictates. Alone, she does not feel comfort within vampire society. She is as much an outsider in vampire society as Jebel is in human society.
August 12, 2010
I'm running through this set if books very quickly. We tend to forget just how short genre books were a decade or two ago.
Love this paranormal series. Each book involves a different couple, but it has a lot of Urban Fantasy in it as well since not only the universe but the arc story line moves with each book.
This series has strong male and strong female vampires in it. In this case a new Enforcer who is both a strong female vampire and a rather shy, sweet one as well, hooks up with a very strong ex-con to find a missing boy. She is looking for a young vampire who has gone missing from his nest. He is looking for the son of an FBI agent who is also missing. Turns out the two are one boy and his is in a lot of trouble in Seattle's underground.
It is rather funny pairing because there is no question which one would win if they had a fight, and it is her and not him. But the pairing works very well. At one point in a later book he refers to her as Miss Mary Sunshine, and that fits her as well.
Love this paranormal series. Each book involves a different couple, but it has a lot of Urban Fantasy in it as well since not only the universe but the arc story line moves with each book.
This series has strong male and strong female vampires in it. In this case a new Enforcer who is both a strong female vampire and a rather shy, sweet one as well, hooks up with a very strong ex-con to find a missing boy. She is looking for a young vampire who has gone missing from his nest. He is looking for the son of an FBI agent who is also missing. Turns out the two are one boy and his is in a lot of trouble in Seattle's underground.
It is rather funny pairing because there is no question which one would win if they had a fight, and it is her and not him. But the pairing works very well. At one point in a later book he refers to her as Miss Mary Sunshine, and that fits her as well.
July 11, 2015
Not as bad as the first book, but still not good.
Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It had earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.
Since I don't normally write reviews unless I have something specific to say, here's the break down of how I rate my books...
1 star... This book was bad, so bad I may have given up and skipped to the end. I will avoid this author like the plague in the future.
2 stars... This book was not very good, and I won't be reading any more from the author.
3 stars... This book was ok, but I won't go out of my way to read more, But if I find another book by the author for under a dollar I'd pick it up.
4 stars... I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be on the look out to pick up more from the series/author.
5 stars... I loved this book! It had earned a permanent home in my collection and I'll be picking up the rest of the series and other books from the author ASAP.
March 16, 2015
I am including it under paranormal romance, although it does not really belong there. Although there is a new couple in every book, it is by no means the center of the action (in this case, the two characters don't even meet each other until half way through the novel). In fact, the books were not classified as romance when they were written. In this collection Sizemore has a mix of original, really interesting situations and narrative techniques with some very weak aspects.
March 18, 2008
This series is improving with this book. The vampire community/world structure is discussed more and the characters have a little more depth in them. The author however still needs to work in this area of her world/mythos.
April 1, 2009
I skimmed a lot less of this book (than its predecessor) but by 1/4 through I couldn't take it anymore. I should've known by the first book that this book isn't really readable either.
I hope her Prime series is better.
I hope her Prime series is better.
March 12, 2008
I haven't read the first book in this series, but I searched this one out because it was set in Seattle. I will keep reading Sizemore. I liked this fairly well.
March 18, 2012
It was just too slow and same-y with what should be a considerable feature of the book occuring literally in the very last pages with a very uncharacteristic responce by Jebel.
March 12, 2014
Couldn't get into the story - skimmed through most of it. The ending was pretty good, though. Not gonna bother with the rest of the series though.
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