BloodMarked (The Fraktioneers) (Volume 1), by Lu J Whitley
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Her nightmares are real, and they're out for blood. Greta Brandt's life is run of the mill, except for the nightmares - violent dreams of creatures that wear the skin of the people around her... and him, the man with the golden hair and incandescent red eyes. After 800 cursed years, Jaromir Ragnarsson has finally found the violet-eyed woman with the star-shaped birthmark of the BloodMarked: Greta Brandt. But he's not the only one who's been searching for her. When terror strikes close to home, Greta must finally accept her role in a world she thought only existed in her fevered dreams, putting her wavering trust in the one man who knows the full truth about her fate.
BloodMarked (The Fraktioneers) (Volume 1), by Lu J Whitley- Amazon Sales Rank: #5255492 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.81" h x .60" w x 5.06" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 262 pages
About the Author Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a girl was born who was just a little strange around the edges. One thing led to another, and now you’re reading her stories. Lu J Whitley is a full-time writer and self-professed oddball who lives a quiet life in the mid-Midwest with her geeky, roboticist husband and four-legged children. Follow her on: Website: lujwhitleyauthor.com Facebook: facebook.com/authorlujwhitley Twitter: twitter.com/LuJWhitley
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Bloodmarked - Definately a Must Read! By Scott Borgman Where to begin? The storyline and characters are so engaging, getting drawn into the story isn't even an option. You're getting sucked in. I loved how the main character, Greta was portrayed. She starts out as a normal college student with a seemingly normal life, and then she's suddenly thrown into a struggle that she's somehow the focus of. She finds out that she's not as normal as she thought, that the WORLD isn't as normal as she'd thought. She's angry, hurt, confused... Her reactions, her frustrations, her angry retorts... they solidify the character completely.Her protector is a mystery at first, other than telling her "I'm here to protect you." Such a short answer brings out those frustrations and angry retorts from Greta... exactly what one would expect if they were they in the same situation. I was a bit frustrated myself, so it makes what Greta is feeling easy to connect with. One of my favorite aspects of the book was that feeling of frustration, of only getting little bits and pieces of information. I found myself wanting to throttle the characters at some points. That's what makes the story so engaging, because you can honestly relate to the characters along the way.While not giving away any spoilers, I will say that Jaromir is a spectacular character. I love his inner struggle that comes out throughout the book, and when the darker side of him is set loose, you realize just why he kept such a tight hold on that darker side of him.The flow of the story is fast paced, and much of it focuses not only on the 'action' but incorporates the emotions of the characters throughout, which is one of the strongest aspects of the story. The characters aren't just going through the motions, they're feeling their way through them - and they do it in such a way that it's very easy to relate with the characters.The ending felt a bit abrupt. If this were a standalone novel, I would say that was the story's only drawback. However, in this case, that abrupt ending isn't a closure ending, but open-ended... letting the reader know there's more to come. And this reader is waiting for that next book impatiently, to see what's coming next!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Lu Whitley is an amazing writer and has an amazing feel for telling a ... By Jenn Thompson What a thriller! You meet Greta, a college girl living with her mom. You may think she’s normal until she comes home to something in her kitchen. It used to be an old acquaintance, used to be. Now it was something else, something that Greta couldn’t explain. Before she can blink her eyes, her mother is dead and she is off with a man she doesn’t know.Finding out what’s going on turns out to be a challenge. Then Greta learned there was something strange about her too. Her world is turned upside down and Greta finds herself on the move from the Takers, who want her body. She is put to the test and tried to hold her own. Now I’m not giving away to many more details, but you need to read this book. It was a total thrill to read. Keeping me hooked on every page and now eagerly awaiting book 2.Lu Whitley is an amazing writer and has an amazing feel for telling a good story. I can see her going far with her writing career and I hope to see more amazing reviews on her work soon!Author Bio: Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a little girl was born who was just a little odd around the edges. One thing led to another, and now you're reading her stories.Lu is a full-time writer who lives a quiet life with her husband and four-legged children.Follow her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/bloodmarkednovelOr Twitter: twitter.com/LuJWhitley
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Gripping Read. Not so happy ending for readers. By Phillip T Stephens The paranormal romance (PNR) genre rarely breaks out of rigidly defined formulas. The heroine, usually a human who may or may not have latent powers of her own, takes on the supernatural world only to get limerent* with one or many supernatural creatures (most often a vampire or werewolf). Quite often she becomes conflicted about this romance, but always succumbs to his otherworldly charms before kicking apocalyptic ass and saving the world.Lu Whitley's BloodMarked shakes off many of the formula's chains to deliver an original storyline without throwing her readers into completely unfamiliar territory. Her character, Greta Brandt, wakes up from a dream of normalcy into the nightmare of real life to face a monster wearing her mother's skin. The monster would claim her skin save for a last minute rescue by Jaromir Ragnarsson (who, readers will probably guess, is a vampire).Greta and Jaromir, or Jami, do end up under the sheets. Greta and Jami, as we should expect given the genre, spend pages feeling conflicted about their on-again-off-again daliance. But this is as far into the reader's comfort zone as Whitely will take them. Greta and Jami spend the rest of the book on the run from the monsters, or Takers, who have been after her since childhood.Greta learns, much to her dismay, that Jami saved her once before, when she was four-years-old the Takers took her father in Germany. Jami spirited her and her mother to California and put them in hiding. Only a chance photograph in her college paper gave her location away. Greta and Jami spend the rest of the novel as fugitives or captives, angry with each other and drawn to each other at the same time.Unfortunately, as Greta's sexual attraction to Jami grows, the more she feeds the vampire powers he wants to suppress. When the Takers lure him away and capture her, he unleashes those powers to find her.Whitley never lets the reader rest as she weaves conspiracy after conspiracy, betrayal after betrayal into BloodMarked. Personally I find PNR boring as a rule, precisely because I haven’t found a series since Laura Hamilton that didn't follow her formula almost exactly. Whitley made taking the chance on her book worth it.BloodMarked is far from a perfect reading experience, however:Formatting made it difficult for me to follow the storyline. Whoever Whitley hired to convert the book to Kindle format forgot to include any symbol (or at least line breaks) noting shifts between different passages. As a consequence disjointed passages flowed into each other as though one moment flowed into the next. Many times I figured out what had happened, but at others, such as Chapter 7, where Jami is about to cut his hair and suddenly Greta goes into a dream state, I became completely confused. The time disruptions during the rest of the chapter became so disorienting that when I began reading Chapter 8 I wondered (and I still wonder) if an entire chapter hadn't been left out between the two chapters.Spoiler alert:Readers who want the book to end with a win before launching into the second book of the series will not enjoy this finish. BloodMarked closes like the end of the first act (think Empire Strikes Back) with the characters still in danger and facing even greater trials in book two.To be honest, I'm one of those readers. As much as I love the book, and I love BloodMarked, and I will continue to push it, I still think books in series should end with something that feels like a win for readers. At least the book the launches the series. You can let the arch nemesis escape. You can show the clouds looming on the horizon. But the lovers should be reunited at least for a moment in the last ray of sunlight before the meteor strikes.__________________________________*Limerence is a phrase that became popular in the eighties, especially with one of my girlfriends who suffered extreme commitment issues. It means a strong infatuation or obsession, often mistaken for love, that disappears only when distance and time intervenes. True limerence requires a platonic obssession but, thanks to the book "Love and Limerence" by Dorothy Tennov, that aspect flew out the window with the commitment phobic limerent relationships of the eighties and the ensuing popularity of PNR where real human boyfriends could never hope to compete with the muscular frames and other projected Freudian and Jungian aspects of supernatural lovers.Phillip T. Stephens is the author of Cigerets, Guns & Beer and Raising Hell.
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