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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.
My blood approves by Amanda Hocking
This is the first work of our famous self-publisher, Amanda Hocking and obviously, From the cover itself, you know it’s about vampire.
I first read Hocking’s work when my junior suggested her
Trylle trilogy. Well, my junior fits into the age category Hocking targeted,
while I consider myself to be too old for paranormal romances, or better put,
immature, shallow paranormal romances. I enjoyed the Trylle trilogy though,
despite the flaws that I would like to elaborate later in another post.I was looking for a bit of light reading when I stumbled upon ‘My Blood Approves’ in my iBooks. I downloaded it when I was looking for the Trylle series a year ago.
One thing about Hocking is, she has the power to engage you
into her book, no matter how stupid the story is. Yeah, My Blood Approves got
me hooked for two nights, because two nights were all it took for me to finish
reading it. The language was simple, too simple for someone like me who
endeavours on Jude Devereaux’s, Kazuo Ishiguro’s, Andrea Lewy’s elaborate, wise
choice of words. As her Trylle trilogy, she repeatedly, annoyingly used the
word ‘foxy ‘ way too many times that I have to look up on the meaning few times
to make sure that I wasn’t missing the real meaning of it. Okay, I get it,
vampires are just too hot that you can’t find any other word, but ‘foxy’ from a
bulk of 200 000 words in English.
So, this book is about Alice Bonham, a plain looking
17-year-old-girl, who apparently has
super-tasty, deliciously-scented blood that gets all the vampires turned on.
So, that is how she gets involved with a family of hot vampires consisting of,
the foxy Ezra, the foxy Mae, the foxy Jack and the-ever- so- foxy Peter.
Hocking came up with a concept that no other vampire stories (that I have read)
have offered. Something called ‘bond’.
Since Alice’s blood is surreptitiously tasty, every vampire wants to get
a bite of it, more of a suck in this context. Peter, however, is physically
bonded with Alice, which means, Alice, a mortal, is supposed to be Peter’s wife
but oh no, Jack’s in love with Alice.
Alice, on the other hand, gets all wet and physically vulnerable when
she even smells the tangy fragrant of Peter (tangy is another word that was
used at least a hundred times in this
book) but she feels comfortable in Jack’s arms, she loves Jack’s heartily laugh
and she probably is in love with Jack. Yes, she is very confused. She gets
stuck in this love-sex-bloodlust triangle and that’s the conflict in this
story.
The thing I like about this book is nothing. I don’t like
the language. I don’t like the superficiality of the characters; I especially
don’t like the personality of the protagonist, Alice. It somehow strengthened
the judgments I have on Hocking. Both her Trylle series and now, My Blood
Approves, share the same type of protagonist, a girl who, undoubtedly, has very
low self-esteem and somehow is being wooed after by, at least two paranormal
guys. In both stories, the main girl could not choose between the guys and this
conflict is prolonged into a series of books. So, in real life, I assume, no
offense, I assume Hocking probably, is not very confident about herself and she
tries to channel out her needs by creating girl characters that are sought
after by many guys.
Overall, I think this book deserves a 2.5/5. As I said,
Hocking is good at making the readers buy the next book in the series, so, I am
actually on the second book, Fate. I am curious to know what happens to the
special physical bond Peter has with Alice and whether Alice chooses Jack over
Peter. So, I guess the plot is not bad, after all.
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