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The Firsts #11
The Days Fly
You'd think that remaining young and beautiful forever would be wonderful, wouldn't you? For Sarah, it really wasn't. She'd been blood-bonded for nearly one hundred years to a powerful vampire, where taking small sips of his blood daily kept his blood-bonds healthy and young. While she was like family to him, there comes a time in a human beings life when just existing isn't enough. There needed to be purpose and achievement and something to strive for. She needed to reach...for what, she didn't know, but it was time to be fully human again. Life...with an expiration date...as it was always meant to be.Destiny had her own plans, and while Sarah made plans to return to her normal human life, leaving supernatural concerns behind, somewhere in a darkened cave, a dying man discovers that the universe is much more powerful than the needs and hopes of humans or vampires. Destiny sends him to Sarah, and all that she can hope for now is that the powers of the universe be kind.
325 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 26, 2015
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C.L. Quinn
59 books91 followersMy name is Charlie, everyone has a story, and this is mine...
That's how the book Last Best Hope, by author T.C.Butts, introduces Charlie Quinn, happy at last living in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, finally at home in her cabin surrounded by nature's beauty. From her isolated life, she makes her living writing a highly successful vampire romance series, where she proclaims, "So I didn't create timeless canons of literature...I created moments of escapist enjoyment, and in the lives we often trap ourselves, it was as important as any Shakespeare sonnet or Tennyson poem." When fireballs rain down on Denver one early spring night, the world is changed forever.
Author T.C.Butts has brought Charlie Quinn's vampire romance series to life, which has grown deeper and richer with each new volume. It has been a labor of love!
That's how the book Last Best Hope, by author T.C.Butts, introduces Charlie Quinn, happy at last living in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, finally at home in her cabin surrounded by nature's beauty. From her isolated life, she makes her living writing a highly successful vampire romance series, where she proclaims, "So I didn't create timeless canons of literature...I created moments of escapist enjoyment, and in the lives we often trap ourselves, it was as important as any Shakespeare sonnet or Tennyson poem." When fireballs rain down on Denver one early spring night, the world is changed forever.
Author T.C.Butts has brought Charlie Quinn's vampire romance series to life, which has grown deeper and richer with each new volume. It has been a labor of love!
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March 14, 2025
Original plot and great characters!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Solo Narration
The heroine: Sarah - she was a blood bond to Xavier for over a hundred years. When a human is a blood bond, she drinks a small amount of vampire blood daily which keeps her young. She was a good friend to Xavier but wasn’t his mate, her blood bond was generational, her parents were also bonded to him. She recently became a doctor and was the one who discovered the scroll that held the instructions on finding the cure to the virus that was lethal to vampires. Sarah decided to leave Xavier’s service and she moved to Boston. She is noticing that her body has converted back to a normal human.
The Hero: Mies - deep in the frozen underground caves in Siberia, Nikolai was excavating his discovery of a vampire burial place when one of the first blood amulets started to glow. He fell deeper into the cave and hurt his leg. He was able to crawl to the amulet where it brightened even more. He put the amulet around his neck and collapsed. Mies was one of the first of his kind and he lived a long life, six thousand years ago, and was ready for eternal rest. Though the powers that be have decided that he is not finished. As Nikolai dies, Mies lives again in his body with their combined life-force. The two consciousnesses are together in one body.
The Story: Mies/Nikolai aren’t too happy being stuck together in one body, even if it is a very nice one. So they decide to travel to see a friend of Nik’s who might be able to help them somehow. They travel to see Sarah. This was another surprising book in this series. There have been some very original plots and conflicts in this series and I really have loved all the characters. Mies, Nikolai and Sarah have been some of my favorites.
One thing I can’t get over when it happens in vampire stories, is when people get a chance to become vampire and still hold off. Especially in stories like this one where they aren’t dead and they don’t lose their soul and stuff like that when they become vampire. I would definitely drink blood if I didn’t have to kill anyone and if I could stay young, be nearly indestructible, never get sick and have the ability to eat whatever I wanted and always have a toned body.
This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in solo narration by Pyper Down. I usually hate solo narration, but I like her voice and she is great with different voices and is able to do so many accents so you can easily tell what character is speaking at any given time. I’m not in love with all of her accents, they sometimes make nice people sound to uppity. Even so, I have really been enjoying the audiobooks in this series. I can rarely binge 12 books in a series one after the other, but I am having no problem with this one.
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The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Solo Narration
The heroine: Sarah - she was a blood bond to Xavier for over a hundred years. When a human is a blood bond, she drinks a small amount of vampire blood daily which keeps her young. She was a good friend to Xavier but wasn’t his mate, her blood bond was generational, her parents were also bonded to him. She recently became a doctor and was the one who discovered the scroll that held the instructions on finding the cure to the virus that was lethal to vampires. Sarah decided to leave Xavier’s service and she moved to Boston. She is noticing that her body has converted back to a normal human.
The Hero: Mies - deep in the frozen underground caves in Siberia, Nikolai was excavating his discovery of a vampire burial place when one of the first blood amulets started to glow. He fell deeper into the cave and hurt his leg. He was able to crawl to the amulet where it brightened even more. He put the amulet around his neck and collapsed. Mies was one of the first of his kind and he lived a long life, six thousand years ago, and was ready for eternal rest. Though the powers that be have decided that he is not finished. As Nikolai dies, Mies lives again in his body with their combined life-force. The two consciousnesses are together in one body.
The Story: Mies/Nikolai aren’t too happy being stuck together in one body, even if it is a very nice one. So they decide to travel to see a friend of Nik’s who might be able to help them somehow. They travel to see Sarah. This was another surprising book in this series. There have been some very original plots and conflicts in this series and I really have loved all the characters. Mies, Nikolai and Sarah have been some of my favorites.
One thing I can’t get over when it happens in vampire stories, is when people get a chance to become vampire and still hold off. Especially in stories like this one where they aren’t dead and they don’t lose their soul and stuff like that when they become vampire. I would definitely drink blood if I didn’t have to kill anyone and if I could stay young, be nearly indestructible, never get sick and have the ability to eat whatever I wanted and always have a toned body.
This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in solo narration by Pyper Down. I usually hate solo narration, but I like her voice and she is great with different voices and is able to do so many accents so you can easily tell what character is speaking at any given time. I’m not in love with all of her accents, they sometimes make nice people sound to uppity. Even so, I have really been enjoying the audiobooks in this series. I can rarely binge 12 books in a series one after the other, but I am having no problem with this one.
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July 17, 2019
The Days Fly ...The Firsts book 11 by C I Quinn
Excellent series by C I Quinn and I'm definitely recommending that you check out all of this fantastic series!💖💖💖💖💖💖 I have a enjoyed every minute of reading this wonderful series. Plenty of action and drama,plus heat!😍
Excellent series by C I Quinn and I'm definitely recommending that you check out all of this fantastic series!💖💖💖💖💖💖 I have a enjoyed every minute of reading this wonderful series. Plenty of action and drama,plus heat!😍
July 4, 2018
The Days Fly
Another great addition to The Firsts series. Now on to the next one. Excited to see where the story goes.
Another great addition to The Firsts series. Now on to the next one. Excited to see where the story goes.
March 17, 2016
This is a very exciting book. I love how the author has thought out every detail to make this book so exciting. The First Bloods is a series about the very first true vampires. In this book, The Days Fly (book 11), we learn about the very first human to get pregnant by a vampire. This is a paranormal romance that teaches us the history of the vampires and about their ways.
I have read every book in this series so far and I loved every one of these books. I could read about the first blood forever and wish we as people could be just as loving, thoughtful and considerate of our fellow man as they do in these stories.
The author, C. L. Quinn does a fantastic job in this book as well as with the entire series. I love how she explains everything down to the minor details and has an explanation for everything. The imagination it takes for this series is just as impressive and the stories are so much fun! The narrator, Pyper Down delivers a perfectly flawless story to us once again complete with multiple voices, emotions and those accents are PERFECT! The narrator nails the voices every time and sounds so authentic. I love how the author keeps the same narrator for the entire series too. No matter when I meet a character in a book again and again in another book, the voices are always the same for the known characters. I love details like that!
I have read every book in this series so far and I loved every one of these books. I could read about the first blood forever and wish we as people could be just as loving, thoughtful and considerate of our fellow man as they do in these stories.
The author, C. L. Quinn does a fantastic job in this book as well as with the entire series. I love how she explains everything down to the minor details and has an explanation for everything. The imagination it takes for this series is just as impressive and the stories are so much fun! The narrator, Pyper Down delivers a perfectly flawless story to us once again complete with multiple voices, emotions and those accents are PERFECT! The narrator nails the voices every time and sounds so authentic. I love how the author keeps the same narrator for the entire series too. No matter when I meet a character in a book again and again in another book, the voices are always the same for the known characters. I love details like that!
July 14, 2015
Strong characters, A story to keep you hooked!
I didn't read the last book. I missed a lot. As usual, a powerful story. Not sure what saving the planet will look like, but with the first Vampires involved, it will be kick but. Surprised, didn't know that weasel Claude was still walking around, I hope he doesn't kill the useless but sweet, Xavier. The next time destiny wakes up and transports a first through space and time, I hope she gives them more intelligence. Bozz? was smart as he searched for Park, in book one. I am in love with this series
I didn't read the last book. I missed a lot. As usual, a powerful story. Not sure what saving the planet will look like, but with the first Vampires involved, it will be kick but. Surprised, didn't know that weasel Claude was still walking around, I hope he doesn't kill the useless but sweet, Xavier. The next time destiny wakes up and transports a first through space and time, I hope she gives them more intelligence. Bozz? was smart as he searched for Park, in book one. I am in love with this series
December 27, 2016
I have loved this series, and have not been able to put it down for 2 weeks!!! lol I have 2 Novellas left....and then I guess I have to wait for book 12! This is Sarah and Mias's story and I loved how it was told...How cool is it to be mated to a 6000yr old ancient First Blood? I am also glad that Nico got to find love too...he is a good man...I am moving on to A Child's Days to learn more about sweet Park!!! Hurry up book 12!! lol
LOVE THIS SERIES AND HIGHLY RECOMMEND ALL OF THESE BOOKS!!!!!
1st listen 7/10/16
LOVED IT EVEN MORE THE 2ND TIME!!!! GREAT RELISTEN!!!
LOVE THIS SERIES AND HIGHLY RECOMMEND ALL OF THESE BOOKS!!!!!
1st listen 7/10/16
LOVED IT EVEN MORE THE 2ND TIME!!!! GREAT RELISTEN!!!
July 14, 2015
Another great read
Just loved Mies and Sarah's Story.... but the end had me screaming nooooo in a crowded place...... Charlie, how can you leave me hanging like that!!!! Another great installment in the series. Can't wait for the next book and hopefully you don't off my favorite guy!!!!!
Just loved Mies and Sarah's Story.... but the end had me screaming nooooo in a crowded place...... Charlie, how can you leave me hanging like that!!!! Another great installment in the series. Can't wait for the next book and hopefully you don't off my favorite guy!!!!!
October 5, 2015
I have read all of "The Firsts" series. This story was a little slow in the beginning compared to the rest of the series. It tied well to the rest of the series. The ending made me gasp. I wondered when that evil character would show up, and he did. Great story.
September 17, 2015
The wait is finally over!!!
OMG, I feel like I belong to this family, so that means Ms. Quinn is an excellent storyteller! I have a life but I would almost trade it for the lives coming off these pages. I can't wait till the next installment!!!
OMG, I feel like I belong to this family, so that means Ms. Quinn is an excellent storyteller! I have a life but I would almost trade it for the lives coming off these pages. I can't wait till the next installment!!!
June 28, 2015
Another fab book with twists and turns that leaves you wanting more , roll on October for Xavier's book love him !
June 30, 2015
Wow
I have read the entire series and all I can say is each one gets better. Can't wait for more. The characters are so real. Keep them coming.
I have read the entire series and all I can say is each one gets better. Can't wait for more. The characters are so real. Keep them coming.
July 4, 2015
Count down
This one was a slower read, but still very good. It seems that all the pieces all lining up. Can't wait to see what happens next.
This one was a slower read, but still very good. It seems that all the pieces all lining up. Can't wait to see what happens next.
September 29, 2015
Good book with lots of twists and turns!
Good book with lots of twists and turns! Definitely one of my favorites in the series. A must read for The Firsts readers...
Good book with lots of twists and turns! Definitely one of my favorites in the series. A must read for The Firsts readers...
September 13, 2016
Another enjoyable story in the series. I look forward to the next.
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