I'd been hearing a lot about Immortal Dark so I'm happy to say in this review that it did not let me down.
While there are definitely some things to be worked on both in the book and the coming series, they weren't enough to condemn it and I really look forward to how this series continues.
Vampires seem to be making a come back and this has sent a really good pace for it which I love.
So, a girl named Kidan is the last heir to an ancient family of humans whose blood can be drank by vampires. There are 80 or so other families like this and in order to protect these bloodlines, a university named Uxlay is erected to protect both humans and vampires and allow them to live in harmony.
Kidan's sister goes missing and her search leads her to believe that her sister has been taken by someone at Uxlay and so of she goes to find her sister and answer some sinister questions along the way.
This book was fun to read even when it did get a little confusing at times. Not for the plot or anything but more so the writing style that seemed to skip lines or jump to points that hadn't been previously discussed, in some random way. I found myself having to re read a lot of sentences as I wasn't sure if something had happened or where they were. Descriptions outside of physical ones about the characters were also a little lacking in that I never really had a sense of what where they were looked like. A lot of sentences would literally be, 'some time later I arrived at X's house', okay but how far is the house from where you are? Is a brick house, a maisonette, what?! It was all very much focused on the action and what was happening rather than taking the time to build the surroundings. Usually I don't mind that as such cause I want to get to the kids, but the fact it was so obvious to me was a bit of an issue.
Aside from that, I really liked this primarily for the AfroCentric vibe of it all. The FMC is Ethiopian, her friends are South African and Somali. This is not just Black in the African American or British Black sense but black from the root, encompassing all strands of Blackness in a way that was wonderful to read and imagine.
Susenyos Sagad is now officially in my Bag of Baes. He's like if Damon Salvatore, Klaus Mikaelson and Lestat had a baby and he looked like Eric Kilmonger.
Like I actually cannot with how hot this man is and how many fucks he actually does not give.
I could have done with a lot more spice in this and dare I say, more explicitly described cause i'm not entirely sure if they had sex or whether they were just dry humping lol there is so much forbidden love potential here that i was foaming at the mouth.
I love the additions she's made to the vampire world especially the idea that drinking from various parts of the body sending different emotions and visions that elicit that emotion to the vampire. Desire at the neck, sin at the inner thigh, violence at the chest etc. it was all very sensual which was great.
Also, while I loved that the author doesn't shy away from darkness, there was a lot of murder in this book that just seemingly went unpunished. It was interesting seeing how easily pushed to killing a lot of the cast were and that was intriguing if not also a little confusing.
Overall i am very excited about finding this book and delving into a new world of vampires as well as Black Fantasy Vampires which have been seriously lacking!
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this e arc. All views are my own.
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