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"Vampires, Blood, Bonnets and Some cracking on liners!"
Synopsis
The year is 1820, and bored young debutante Lucy knows there must be more to life than embroidery and engagements - no matter how eligible the bachelor might be.
Some bachelors, she has discovered, are less 'eligible' than they are 'bloodthirsty,' however... literally.
It turns out that there are a lot of vampires in late-Regency England, and Lucy has an eye for spotting them and the desire to rid the world of them. It's not long before Lady Violet Travesty, leader of a mysterious vampire cult, spots Lucy's talents and offers her a place amongst her vampire acolytes.
Unfortunately, Lady Violent is most horribly slain by the famous Lord Byron before Lucy can accept. Lucy instead joins Lord Byron and his enormous, psychic eagle Napoleon in their ongoing fight against evils such as bloodsucking ghouls and bad taste.
Before long they're joined by the mysterious Sham, an androgynous bounty hunter, who catches Lucy’s eye. The trio lie, flirt, fight and manipulate each other as they make their way across Britain, disrupting society balls, slaying vampires, and making every effort not to betray their feelings to each other as their personal and romantic lives become increasingly entangled.
A balm for the soul for readers who love Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series, novels by Eloisa James and Jane Austen, and the action and adventure of Xena, Warrior Princess, Bloodlust & Bonnets is the most modern action-heavy love-story set two hundred years ago that you'll read this year.
My Review
I was completely over excited to see this Book/Graphic novel Blog Tour and thrilled to have a chance to be on board because I am such a huge fan of the author Emily McGovern!
The backstory is that I am a massive geeky Potterhead (Harry Potter fan), and I stumbled on the authors website "My Life As A Background Slytherin" just over a year ago after been sorted in to Sytherin myself by Pottermore (still not over it thought I was Griffindor for years! *sulk*...)
This online comic world tapped in to my humour and my belief if I was Slytheryn I would have been stood back during all the madness thinking what the hell!! HA!
Anyway I digress but go to http://emilymcgovern.com/category/my-life-as-a-background-slytherin/ Check it out its brilliant.
I am also a huge fan of the graphic novel, mostly as having Dyslexia myself I understand how different forms of stories help different people, for me I prefer printed words over digital works, even though I have a kobo and kindle account I do find it more of a struggle to maintain reading for a long time digitally.
A printed work just makes it easier for me and I find my lovely Dyslexic trick of the words and letters doing a conga on the page lessen in a print form.
For my eldest son who is also dyslexic (sorry son!, he got my bad genes!) he finds Comics and Graphic Novels are easier for him, the shorter sentences and the drawn elements he finds less triggering that having paragraphs after paragraphs on the page. So I am a huge graphic novel fan and love that they are becoming more and more main stream.
So with all of this and from this and knowing the authors style I was so very excited to read her first novel and boy I was not disappointed!
We meet Lucy a unhappy and very bored debutante, who slaughters her Vampire suitor and most of the others on the page! (go girl!) and her actions catch the eye of Lady Travesty (another yet more fabulous vampire) and she invites Lucy to join the Special immortal Vampire Cult
But before Lucy can accept (because you think she would, she bored after all!) Lord byron (yes its that one from the books we are told!) destroys Lady Travesty the vampire (not really though, big hint she's immortal!) thus saving the day ( or did he?)
Byron and Lucy along with Sham another vampire hunter who they meet, all throw themselves in to the life of been vampire hunters and killers get in to all sorts of trouble while killing any vampires who cross there paths - only not very well as the vampires pop back up again later! (Immortal people!! its a clue!!)
our hapless yet fabulously sarcastic trio along with some equally great characters, Napolean the psychic eagle (mostly a magic taxi) and a magical castle known as Castle (yes really!)
All this combined made for a fantastic read through this amazingly drawn world, full of fun, humour, sarcasm and some brilliant one liners!
I loved the read and concept the story was really good and of course the authors humour shone through, I cannot wait to read her further works.
Author Bio
Emily was born in the UK but grew up in Brussels, where she attended the European School of Brussels II.
After graduating, she began a Foundation Art Diploma course at London College of Fashion. She studiously avoided any fashion, and instead spent her time making hand-drawn animations and weird paintings of witches.
She began a BA degree in Russian Studies at University College London and spent a year in Russia working in a rural commune, where she ran a weekly art “gathering” for the kids.
The year abroad allowed her to go to many Russian art galleries, which were a revelation to her - artists such as Vereshchagin and Vasnetsov she found influenced her greatly.
She graduated with First Class Honours and by 2016 was building a comic driven social media platform based around the regular posting of her ‘My Life As A Background Slytherin’ comic. Bloodlust & Bonnets is her first graphic novel.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.
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