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The Dark Awakening
by D.L. Blade
Series: Chosen Coven #1
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Published by Fifth Element Publishing on October 2, 2018
Genres: YA Fantasy
Pages: 252
Format: Kindle
Source: YA Bound Book Tours
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She's stalked, hunted, and a villainous vampire desires her blood.
Mercy’s life is anything but ordinary. A stalker lurks in the shadows, and a man rescues her from a life-threatening car accident but vanishes right before her eyes.
But this man who she thought was a hallucination, tracks her down at a nearby cove, and claims they were once in love from another time. Another century. Mercy has no memory of this world he shares and instinctively doesn’t trust him.
He also reveals to her a life-changing secret—she’s a powerful witch, vampires are real, and she's destined to destroy them.
Mercy finds herself dragged into a centuries-old battle against the undead, and a sadistic vampire leader has set his sights on her. And he will stop at nothing until he claims Mercy as his own.
She and her coven won’t go down without a fight. She needs to discover the truth about her past, and the power she holds before it’s too late.
The Dark Awakening by D.L. Blade is an exciting twist to the whole supernatural world that we have come to know and love.
Can Mercy figure out her past and her powers in time to save the world?
Mercy
Mercy is our primary and point of view character. She comes from a long line of Salem Witches. Mercy grew up without knowing about her powers and, unfortunately, gets an information overload a few weeks before her eighteenth birthday. I love the way that Mercy just tries to keep everything in her life regular while trying to absorb all of this information. I’m not sure if I would react the same way as Mercy about a lot of things that she finds out about mostly on the whim in this book.
What I like about her is that Mercy takes everything astride and just tries to put a positive spin on it.
The World
The world, when the book was written, was pretty much the same. Some of the things that are different are the supernatural elements and how Mercy plays a significant role. I can’t precisely divulge what role she plays in, but wow. I am still reeling from everything that happened in the book, and I’m hooked. The world seems so real, and I think that it would be cool. Mercy has a lot of information given to her. Hopefully, she will do something useful with this information.
Five Stars
I couldn’t put down The Dark Awakening by DL Blade once I started it. Ms. Blade has a way with words, and this book was well written. I loved this book so much, and I am thinking that at one point, I am going to have to finish this trilogy. I love Mercy’s voice and the way that she is finding out about everything. Hopefully, she can have a semi-normal life too.
I am giving this book five stars and recommending it to anyone that likes vampires, witches, and werewolves.
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About D.L. Blade
D.L. Blade grew up in southern California, but relocated to Colorado with her family in 2014.
She always loved writing, concentrating on poetry rather than prose when she was younger. That changed however, when she had a dream one night and decided to create a story about it.
In her spare time, D.L. enjoys a wide variety of hobbies, including reading, and attending rock concerts. She also enjoys visiting animal sanctuaries and pet shelters. She hopes one day she will own enough land to start her own dog rescue.
In the future, D.L. hopes that she can continue to write exciting novels that will captivate her readers and bring them into the worlds that she creates using her imagination.
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