Fate, Flutter, Wisdom by Amanda Hocking: A summary

                         
                                                           
The reason why I am compiling all three books in one post is because, I read them back-to-back continuously in a week and honestly, I lost track of the defining border between the books. 

So, again, this series is about Alice Bonham, who attracts vampires to her, because of her deliciously-scented blood. In the end of My Blood Approves,(something about My Blood Approves here) Peter bites Alice almost to death, thank God, Ezra managed to do a blood transfusion on Alice that made her alive again. Fate tells us, how Milo, the younger brother of Alice is turned to a vampire after he had a fatal vampire. Fate is all about Milo learning to be a vampire and Alice being left out, since she is the only human among her social circle. At the end of Fate, Jack forces Alice to turn into a vampire, since Jack loves Alice so much and that's the only way to break the physical bond between Alice and Peter. Unable to contain the misery and the pain of suddenly being 'de-bonded' from Alice, in book 3, Flutter, Peter escapes to Finland,to surrender himself to Lycans, a group of barbaric vampires. Yet, Alice feels responsible for his suicidal-escape, so Alice teamed up with Ezra went all the way to Finland to bring Peter back. Despite being a new vampire, they, of course, aced the dangerous mission. In Flutter, Jane, Alice's childhood friend ends up being a bloodwhore and brings more problems to her. Flutter ends with Mae, turning her great-granddaughter to a vampire, a 5-year-old child vampire. Peter, Mae and Daisy, the child vampire migrate to Australia and that is the end of Flutter. 

Wisdom, the fourth book in My Blood Approves series, was the better one compared to all the 3 books in the series. I believed Amanda Hocking showed significant improvement in the choice of words and in the development of the plot. Jane gets herself killed while Alice was in Australia and Alice determines to look for the perpetrator. In the process, Alice gets physical training from vampire hunter, Olivia and 14-year-old street vampire, Violet. Alice becomes extremely powerful and skillful ( as she annoyingly, did backflips in all the fights she got onto). She finds Jane's murderer and kills him. Mae wrung Daisy's neck because Mae could not bear to see Daisy in pain in turning to be a vampire.In the midst of these conflicts, Milo and Alice found out who their father is. A vampire who had sex with their mother, which explains why Milo and Alice are special vampires. In the end, Peter, Jack and Alice are confronted by vampire hunters. That is the climax. Jack's hanging onto a chain that's leading into a bottomless pit, while Alice is holding the chain and tries to pull the chain up. She fails and Jack falls into the pit. But, Peter saves the day by taking over the chain and he manages to pull Jack up. So, in the end, everybody but Jane lives. Forever, since they are vampires.

Overall, this series was engaging. It made me fall in love with vampires. I still think that most of the plot is superficial and quick, like the author was rushing to end it. Yet, as I mentioned before, as the series progresses, the writing style improved and she finally got rid of the word 'foxy'. Thank God. 

Things I like about this series, is her creativity in creating things like vampire clubs; where vampire hang out to bite willing-human-prey, blood bank where human sell blood, tinking its for medical uses but in actuality, the blood is actually for vampires to drink. I was also enthralled with the idea of a child vampire, something I would never have thought about. A child who grows up into an adult inside, but externally, she is just a child. 

Despite the things I said in my initial review about My Blood Approves, I think this series isn't that bad, after all. 

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