Title: What Kills Me
Author: Wynne Channing
Series: What Kills Me #1
Publication Date: June 6, 2012
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Source: Won a copy from Blog Tour
Description from Goodreads:
The fight for survival begins.
An ancient prophecy warns of a girl destined to cause the extinction of the vampire race.
So
when 17-year-old Axelia falls into a sacred well filled with blood and
emerges a vampire, the immortal empire believes she is this legendary
destroyer. Hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, Axelia and her reluctant
ally, the vampire bladesmith Lucas, must battle to survive.
How
will she convince the empire that she is just an innocent
teenager-turned bloodsucker and not a creature of destruction? And if
she cannot, can a vampire who is afraid of bugs summon the courage to
fight a nation of immortals?
My Thoughts:
This book was just AMAZING! I don't know where to begin in explaining how much I enjoyed reading this book.
Axelia
(Zee) was just the normal human girl that gets turned into a vampire.
She did not know that vampires even excited. Now she is being hunted
down by them, because they believe she is the girl the vampire prophecy
said would kill the vampire race. Enter the hundsome boy Lucas, who's
father finds Axelia in the woods, and he is not too happy of Axelia
barging into his home. Lucas must help Axelia find out more about this
vampire prophecy, while fighting off an entire vampire army and vampire
bounty hunters, to figure out a way to prove to the vampires that she is
not the girl of the prophecy.
I was first intrigued by this
book, because of the gorgeous book cover. Then I read the synopsis on
goodreads and jumped through all the blogs that participated in the What
Kills Me Blog Tour. The reviews sounded great, the author interviews
were awesome, and the excerpt/synopsis were intriguing.
I just
loved the plot behind the vampire prophecy, and Axelia's role in the
whole ordeal. Throughout the story Axelia's powers-comes from her
being the girl of the vampire prophecy- keep developing and keep getting
stronger. There is action, adventure, death, deception, and romance.
What more could I ask for? I loved the relationship between Axelia and
Luca, but at times I just wanted to slap some sense into these two lol.
Channing keeps you on the edge of your seat with the turn of each page. I
seriously could not put this book down, because I wanted to know what
would happen next. Now, the last chapter of the book just shocked me :0
(in a good way) :D! I hope there is a second book to What Kills Me,
because I want to read more about Axelia and Lucas.
This is a book totally worth reading :D!
Final Verdict: 5 stars
About the Author:
Wynne Channing is an award-winning national newspaper reporter and young adult novelist.
She
started writing horror/fantasy tales as a girl. She still has the first
novel that she wrote when she was 10. It’s (unintentionally) hilarious.
Wynne
loves telling stories and as a journalist, she has interviewed everyone
from Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Jackman to the president of the Maldives
and Duchess Sarah Ferguson. The closest she has come to interviewing a
vampire is sitting down with True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgard (he didn’t
bite).
She briefly considered calling her debut novel “Well” so then everyone would say: “Well written by Wynne Channing.”
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