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Threads of Fate: Vampireaper, Book 1
Vampires, werewolves, reapers, ghosts, and world mythology clash in this action-packed, snarky, and romantic young adult urban fantasy adventure.
She wields the power to change fate. And it absolutely terrifies her.
When her sister is abducted by supernatural forces, Upstate New York high school student Tasia is thrust into an ongoing shadow war between vampires and reapers, and awakens an incredible magical power within herself.
Too bad she’s too afraid to use it. The excruciating side effects don't help things, either.
To find her sister, Tasia will need to team up with Ace, a handsome and mysterious vampire who steals her breath away (but hopefully not her blood). They'll have to battle ghosts, vampires, reapers, and even werewolves as they navigate through two hostile worlds at war.
If she doesn't hurry up and figure out a way to track down her sister's kidnappers while overcoming the pain and fear of using her new abilities, she'll lose Ace, her sister, and everything she loves.
Threads of Fate is the first novel in M. W. Arita's Vampireaper series, a young adult urban fantasy adventure packed with breathtaking twists and turns, a vampire friends-to-lovers romance, and an unhealthy dose of wacky humor.
This book contains mild spoilers for the first season of The Soulbound Sorceress but can be listened to and enjoyed as its own stand-alone story.
Click "Buy Now" and join Tasia and Ace in a fun-filled frenzy of fur, fangs, and phantoms!
She wields the power to change fate. And it absolutely terrifies her.
When her sister is abducted by supernatural forces, Upstate New York high school student Tasia is thrust into an ongoing shadow war between vampires and reapers, and awakens an incredible magical power within herself.
Too bad she’s too afraid to use it. The excruciating side effects don't help things, either.
To find her sister, Tasia will need to team up with Ace, a handsome and mysterious vampire who steals her breath away (but hopefully not her blood). They'll have to battle ghosts, vampires, reapers, and even werewolves as they navigate through two hostile worlds at war.
If she doesn't hurry up and figure out a way to track down her sister's kidnappers while overcoming the pain and fear of using her new abilities, she'll lose Ace, her sister, and everything she loves.
Threads of Fate is the first novel in M. W. Arita's Vampireaper series, a young adult urban fantasy adventure packed with breathtaking twists and turns, a vampire friends-to-lovers romance, and an unhealthy dose of wacky humor.
This book contains mild spoilers for the first season of The Soulbound Sorceress but can be listened to and enjoyed as its own stand-alone story.
Click "Buy Now" and join Tasia and Ace in a fun-filled frenzy of fur, fangs, and phantoms!
- GenresParanormalRomanceFantasy
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Published August 23, 2023
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M.C. Waring
22 books30 followersM.C. Waring loves action-packed roller-coaster rides through all kinds of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, adventure, and mystery stories. Their books contain epic battles, high adventure, and romantic entanglements across a sweeping universe of diverse genres.
Like the gods and monsters they write about, Arita might just be a creature of myth.
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September 28, 2020
I make no great secret of my love for urban fantasy. whether it be the Dresden Files, the early Iron Druid books, Jane Yellowrock, Dante Valentine or the United States of Monsters series, I think there are just so many talented writers out there writing amazing stories. I had the chance to check out Threads of Fate, and I was glad I did, since this is definitely a fun beginning to a series.
PLOT SUMMARY
As the story starts, we meet Tasia, a high school senior, at her part-time job as a barista in a local coffee shop in a town in upstate New York. Having a bad day at work one day, she upsets several customers, just feeling out of sync. After she leaves work, she is accosted in the park by one of the customers, who is ranting crazily that she ruined his life by messing up his coffee and he's going to kill her. Freezing up as he approaches her, she is shocked when a mysterious figure appears to save her, fighting the unnaturally fast and strong would be killer, and stopping him with a giant scythe with the help of Tasia, who mysteriously manifests a scythe of her own.
Tasia's savior turns out to be Ace, a half-vampire Reaper who's job as a Reaper is to collect Remnants, parasitic remnants of souls that feed on specific negative emotions, taking over a host and emphasizing those negative emotions, creating chaos with them. Tasia just tries to continue on with her life afterward, but is surprised to see Ace the next day at school, who acts like he doesn't recognize her. She finds out what this is all about when her sister, Vivi, is kidnapped by a mysterious Remnant, and while Tasia and Ace try and stop the kidnapper, a female vampire hunter tries to kill him. Its only with the help of Ace 's twin Sunny that they manage to escape, although they lose Vivi in the process.
This starts a wild series of events, where they end up meeting the Ace and Sunny's long lost mother, a powerful vampire named Miri, who helps them along to the Reaper realm, where Tasia meets the queen of the Reapers, and is given the chance to take the reaper trials, even though she has not gone to the academy yet. This leads her to finding the kidnapper, who host is someone she never expected, and also brings out another powerful vampire, Hat, who wants to drain Tasia and gain her abilities, which turn out to be much more than just summoning a scythe and using Reaper powers. The Remnant that kidnapped Vivi has a connection to the girls they never expected, and is more powerful than they could have imagined. The final battle with the Remnant stretches all of their abilities to the utmost to avoid being killed and letting an evil far greater than could be controlled loose.
CHARACTERS & WORLD BUILDING
The characters are definitely the driving force with this book. Tasia especially is such a relatable character. She is not some perfect paragon who discovers her powers and masters them in two days and goes out and wrecks villains. Instead, she is a typical teenage girl, dealing with mean girls at school, job troubles, a drunk father, and helping control her wild child younger sister, all while dealing with crippling doubt in herself. Her character arc is handled really well, with plenty of setbacks and goofs to go along with her triumphs. In some cases, its just sheer willpower keeping her going. The other characters, such as Sunny and Ace, Gwen, the head mean girl, and Vivi, are all given some little growth arcs themselves, with the same combination of triumphs and failures adding so much to their character.. The antagonists are really well done, and the main villains are especially tragic, really taking a toll on Tasia and Vivi especially. These are definitely some of the better characters you're likely to find in urban fantasy.
The world building is very well executed. Taking place in a city in upstate New York, a setting not often used in urban fantasy, it creates good settings for the action to take place. The addition of the vampires hiding place in a magically hidden castle, as well as the very cool Reaper realm, gives a more mystical feel to the settings, and some of the other realms that are hinted at point to other potential settings in the future, adding another layer to the world. The magic is varied, but hidden from the mortal realm, and quite a few supernatural can learn to use it through spells, creating the potential for a lot more magical action in the future. Tasia's powers are really rare, and seem to have a really powerful potential behind them if she can learn to control them.
FINAL THOUGHTS
As I read this book, I realized, as a 50 year old, I probably wasn't the target demographic for the book. However, It's been said of me that I'm just a boy grown tall, and there's some truth to that, because I found this book really enjoyable. It had some interesting, sympathetic characters that you can really get behind, and even the villains are more tragic than despotically evil. The author took the time to develop character arcs, which is something a lot of writers skip today, unfortunately, getting right into blowing stuff up. That's not to say there's no action in this, because there's plenty, but its just integral to the characters story arcs, not just tacked on. I think this book will appeal to a lot of urban fantasy fans, especially ones that like a good character arc. Its not a perfect book, but it is a really good one.
PLOT SUMMARY
As the story starts, we meet Tasia, a high school senior, at her part-time job as a barista in a local coffee shop in a town in upstate New York. Having a bad day at work one day, she upsets several customers, just feeling out of sync. After she leaves work, she is accosted in the park by one of the customers, who is ranting crazily that she ruined his life by messing up his coffee and he's going to kill her. Freezing up as he approaches her, she is shocked when a mysterious figure appears to save her, fighting the unnaturally fast and strong would be killer, and stopping him with a giant scythe with the help of Tasia, who mysteriously manifests a scythe of her own.
Tasia's savior turns out to be Ace, a half-vampire Reaper who's job as a Reaper is to collect Remnants, parasitic remnants of souls that feed on specific negative emotions, taking over a host and emphasizing those negative emotions, creating chaos with them. Tasia just tries to continue on with her life afterward, but is surprised to see Ace the next day at school, who acts like he doesn't recognize her. She finds out what this is all about when her sister, Vivi, is kidnapped by a mysterious Remnant, and while Tasia and Ace try and stop the kidnapper, a female vampire hunter tries to kill him. Its only with the help of Ace 's twin Sunny that they manage to escape, although they lose Vivi in the process.
This starts a wild series of events, where they end up meeting the Ace and Sunny's long lost mother, a powerful vampire named Miri, who helps them along to the Reaper realm, where Tasia meets the queen of the Reapers, and is given the chance to take the reaper trials, even though she has not gone to the academy yet. This leads her to finding the kidnapper, who host is someone she never expected, and also brings out another powerful vampire, Hat, who wants to drain Tasia and gain her abilities, which turn out to be much more than just summoning a scythe and using Reaper powers. The Remnant that kidnapped Vivi has a connection to the girls they never expected, and is more powerful than they could have imagined. The final battle with the Remnant stretches all of their abilities to the utmost to avoid being killed and letting an evil far greater than could be controlled loose.
CHARACTERS & WORLD BUILDING
The characters are definitely the driving force with this book. Tasia especially is such a relatable character. She is not some perfect paragon who discovers her powers and masters them in two days and goes out and wrecks villains. Instead, she is a typical teenage girl, dealing with mean girls at school, job troubles, a drunk father, and helping control her wild child younger sister, all while dealing with crippling doubt in herself. Her character arc is handled really well, with plenty of setbacks and goofs to go along with her triumphs. In some cases, its just sheer willpower keeping her going. The other characters, such as Sunny and Ace, Gwen, the head mean girl, and Vivi, are all given some little growth arcs themselves, with the same combination of triumphs and failures adding so much to their character.. The antagonists are really well done, and the main villains are especially tragic, really taking a toll on Tasia and Vivi especially. These are definitely some of the better characters you're likely to find in urban fantasy.
The world building is very well executed. Taking place in a city in upstate New York, a setting not often used in urban fantasy, it creates good settings for the action to take place. The addition of the vampires hiding place in a magically hidden castle, as well as the very cool Reaper realm, gives a more mystical feel to the settings, and some of the other realms that are hinted at point to other potential settings in the future, adding another layer to the world. The magic is varied, but hidden from the mortal realm, and quite a few supernatural can learn to use it through spells, creating the potential for a lot more magical action in the future. Tasia's powers are really rare, and seem to have a really powerful potential behind them if she can learn to control them.
FINAL THOUGHTS
As I read this book, I realized, as a 50 year old, I probably wasn't the target demographic for the book. However, It's been said of me that I'm just a boy grown tall, and there's some truth to that, because I found this book really enjoyable. It had some interesting, sympathetic characters that you can really get behind, and even the villains are more tragic than despotically evil. The author took the time to develop character arcs, which is something a lot of writers skip today, unfortunately, getting right into blowing stuff up. That's not to say there's no action in this, because there's plenty, but its just integral to the characters story arcs, not just tacked on. I think this book will appeal to a lot of urban fantasy fans, especially ones that like a good character arc. Its not a perfect book, but it is a really good one.
April 20, 2023
Anastasia (Tasia for short) was your ordinary high schooler trying to be the big sister and support her family. But when one night leads to an unexpected attack, Tasia finds herself saved by a cute blond-haired reaper. Except reapers can't be real, can they?
As Tasia tries to get her ordinary world back, things start to turn for the worse, with untapped powers in her grasp and the cute reaper boy attending her school, something big is about to happen.
Threads of Fate was a fast action page-turner with romantic elements that complement supernatural, wolf-shifter themes. Tasia was super relatable, and though I like serious type male love interests I couldn't help but love Ace's personality!! Things don't always appear as they seem, especially character-wise because I absolutely LOVE what M.W. Arita did with Gwen!
Book one ends in a satisfying scene, though you can't help but miss the characters!
As Tasia tries to get her ordinary world back, things start to turn for the worse, with untapped powers in her grasp and the cute reaper boy attending her school, something big is about to happen.
Threads of Fate was a fast action page-turner with romantic elements that complement supernatural, wolf-shifter themes. Tasia was super relatable, and though I like serious type male love interests I couldn't help but love Ace's personality!! Things don't always appear as they seem, especially character-wise because I absolutely LOVE what M.W. Arita did with Gwen!
Book one ends in a satisfying scene, though you can't help but miss the characters!
April 9, 2024
This book has made driving less boring for me. I loved Ace since he rocked up in The Soulbound Scar (which was the first MC Waring book I listened to), so I really enjoyed the fact he’s a huge part of this story. There were lots of references made to books and superheroes which was great as I love a lot of that stuff! Although my favourite reference was “I have an army” “but we have a wolf” it gave me flashes to Avengers Assemble where iron man and Loki had a similar conversation! The references to the Mortal Instruments was pretty good too, especially since I have started reading those recently.
There was a lot going on in the story, but nothing got lost along the way and seemed to fit together seamlessly. Naturally there’s still many questions, like where does Tasia's power come from? Does Vivi have powers too, if not how did she help Tasia? Does the hunter go after Mira and her vamps? Does Gwen finally become friends with Tasia, and does she find her maker and remove her curse? Can they find a cure for Sonny, or can Gwen undo it since she infected him? Where is Hat and what does he want from Tasia, and why does he really hate the Drapani line? What is the full story between Mira and the reaper queen? And what is up with Rachel? But I know this first book is M.C Waring setting things up for the wider story moving forward as with her other series. I liked the turn of events where it revealed Tasia and Vivi’s mother was the remnant, especially after it looked like it was just the school clown that felt isolated and alone. The many mentions of Alice has me wanting to get up to speed with The Soulbound books!
Alex has done a superb job of narrating. I didn’t find her voice difficult to listen to like some narrators can be. She did well to voice each character differently, which in my opinion is what makes a good narrator. I knew which characters were which just by how she voiced them!
There was a lot going on in the story, but nothing got lost along the way and seemed to fit together seamlessly. Naturally there’s still many questions, like where does Tasia's power come from? Does Vivi have powers too, if not how did she help Tasia? Does the hunter go after Mira and her vamps? Does Gwen finally become friends with Tasia, and does she find her maker and remove her curse? Can they find a cure for Sonny, or can Gwen undo it since she infected him? Where is Hat and what does he want from Tasia, and why does he really hate the Drapani line? What is the full story between Mira and the reaper queen? And what is up with Rachel? But I know this first book is M.C Waring setting things up for the wider story moving forward as with her other series. I liked the turn of events where it revealed Tasia and Vivi’s mother was the remnant, especially after it looked like it was just the school clown that felt isolated and alone. The many mentions of Alice has me wanting to get up to speed with The Soulbound books!
Alex has done a superb job of narrating. I didn’t find her voice difficult to listen to like some narrators can be. She did well to voice each character differently, which in my opinion is what makes a good narrator. I knew which characters were which just by how she voiced them!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 30, 2020
I wish I could give this book more than 5 stars!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is 1 of my favorite shows of all time. It has affected me as a writer in ways that I have only recently come to realize. Like most Buffy fans, I have felt the lack of new stories ever since the showing off the air. I have searched for something that gives me the same feel and vibe as 1 of my favorite shows of all time.
"Vampireaper" has ended that search.
This book had everything I was looking for in a paranormal adventure story... Well drawn out, fast talking characters, Imaginative story lines that continue to leave the reader guessing, A place that allows for character development while never getting boring... All that and more awaits within this book!
This 1 is definitely going on my top 10 of the year list! It was an incredible find, and I look forward to losing myself in this universe time and time again. I simply cannot recommend this book enough for everyone who misses their favorite slayer.
And if you've never watched the show and are wondering what all the fuss was about, this book can give you a good idea.
Unbelievably good in every way!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Is 1 of my favorite shows of all time. It has affected me as a writer in ways that I have only recently come to realize. Like most Buffy fans, I have felt the lack of new stories ever since the showing off the air. I have searched for something that gives me the same feel and vibe as 1 of my favorite shows of all time.
"Vampireaper" has ended that search.
This book had everything I was looking for in a paranormal adventure story... Well drawn out, fast talking characters, Imaginative story lines that continue to leave the reader guessing, A place that allows for character development while never getting boring... All that and more awaits within this book!
This 1 is definitely going on my top 10 of the year list! It was an incredible find, and I look forward to losing myself in this universe time and time again. I simply cannot recommend this book enough for everyone who misses their favorite slayer.
And if you've never watched the show and are wondering what all the fuss was about, this book can give you a good idea.
Unbelievably good in every way!
September 5, 2023
𝗔𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲!
Where to start!? The narration was flawless! The story was captivating and intriguing, I was on the edge of my seat most of the time! The big mystery remains of where her powers came from and I even get the feeling that the sister is something special, too!! So many nods to other novels and even shows and movies. One of my favorites was, "What would Sam and Dean do?" It was lovely. Reapers, werewolves and others make this a wonderful story!
Where to start!? The narration was flawless! The story was captivating and intriguing, I was on the edge of my seat most of the time! The big mystery remains of where her powers came from and I even get the feeling that the sister is something special, too!! So many nods to other novels and even shows and movies. One of my favorites was, "What would Sam and Dean do?" It was lovely. Reapers, werewolves and others make this a wonderful story!
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