How does an innocent teenage girl, in the quiet suburban town of Roystone Valley, not know about her father’s bloodline and the dark family secret that made him flee town when she was six? Thinking that she suffers from Cutaneous Porphyria, Aveline became an anti-social, disparager on life longing for excitement until HE showed up – a mysterious, handsome vampire with seemingly good intentions and a dark, sexual demeanour. Her life turned upside down when he introduced her to the truth about herself, taking her on a whirlwind adventure into a mystical world unbeknownst to her, giving her life and love. Or at least, so she thought....
Join Aveline as she transforms into her true intimidating nature as the supernatural world unfolds before her eyes – a place where vampires and demons war against each other in attempts to claim rights to Earth and Channel, the supernatural world. Everything and everyone who she thought she once knew, including herself, now seem so different.
A twisted story about love, betrayal, sex and blood! Sometimes we are unaware of things that are right in front of us!
Aveline has grown up a loner and outcast. It has just been her mother and her, her father left when she was young, and she has a terrible disease that leaves her pale, allergic to the sun and in terrible pain at times, only to be cured by drinking animal blood. She hates it, but doctors orders are doctors orders. What Aveline is about to find out is that everything she thought she knew has been a lie, she is really a Dhampir, half Vampire, and that Vampire's really do exist. Blood: The Vampire Covenant Series (Book 1) tells the story as Angel informs Ava of her history and gets her to help him safe the Vampire world, at least that is what he tells her they are doing, and who is she to mistrust this heart-throb. Sydney Ledger easily mixes that feelings of a lonely teenager, the need to be liked, and the desire to help save the world into this Vampire tale.
Blood is not your typical blood-drinking Vampire tale, in fact there is very little actual blood drinking going on in the story. There is a back history to the Vampires but no clear cut how they originated in the story, but they have been around, and they are here to protect the humans from demons. Sydney Ledger has made them the good guys, and yet at the same time, she has made them vulnerable to temptation. She also brings the loner and outcast feelings that Ava is dealing with to life and you really feel them and can relate to them. Although there is some mild sexual references and one sexual scene, I would still say that most young adults would be ok reading this book and they would relate to it very well, being in that age range. It is also a great book for adults as well.