Name: A Shade of Vampire 2
Rating: 3.677966101694915 (59 reviews)
ISBN: 9781947607019

Bella Forrest

Having been delighted by the bestselling debut, A Shade of Vampire, readers are begging for more. In A Shade of Blood, Bella Forrest transports you deeper into a unique, enthralling and beautifully sensitive story. Prepare to be lost in its pages...

A Shade of Blood:

A Shade of Vampire 2

A Shade Of Vampire

Melissa Palmer

Book #128 Read in 2016
A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest

This is the first in a paranormal series. When I started reading it, I thought it was going to be a 50 Shades-like book with vampires but it turned out to be a good read. Sofia is kidnapped and taken to an island of vampires and gifted to Derek, the vampire Prince. Derek is drawn to Sofia and not just as a meal and the two form a bond. But will their love have a chance to deepen? I borrowed this book from the public library.

With over 5 million copies sold in the series, A Shade of Vampire will transport fans of Twilight, The Mortal Instruments and The Vampire Diaries to a world unlike any other...On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake. A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.She is kidnapped to The Shade, an enchanted island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine. An island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains.Sofia's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is selected out of hundreds of girls to take up residence in the tree-top harem of Derek Novak, the dark royal prince.Despite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood, Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to survive even one more night.Will she succeed? Or is she destined to the same fate that all other girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?

Book one

A Shade of Vampire

Grace Martinez

Must read!

This vampire book is a twist and turning adventure. The different point of views open the book to a whole new level. You know what's in his heart and his past. You know her love and her determination. She reads you in and he blows you away! This kick start to Sofia and Derek's adventure is one to behold

Isabella Brouwer

This book was recommended to me by my friend Melissa and as she was pressing me to read it, I did. It was awesome. 

A Shade of Vampire is about Sofia, who is kidnapped during a midnight stroll at the beach. When she wakes up, she finds herself at the Shade, an island where the sun never shines, and vampires rule. 
Sofia is selected to join the Harem of Derek Novak, a vampire prince, and thus becomes his personal slave. She realizes that despite wanting to go home, it would be wisest for her to stay close to Derek, as it is by far the safest place on the island. But even there Sofia is not safe, for there are far more dangerous people on the island than the unpredictable Derek Novak... 

I liked this book, a lot. My favourite character was definetly Derek, because, well, who doesn't like the badboy with a weak spot? I liked the way in which the characters were decribed, they seemed real and all had their little and/or big flaws. I also really liked how (view spoiler)[Sofia was torn between her love for Derek and her desire to leave the island (hide spoiler)]. I didn't like Ben, he was a jerk.
The story wasn't extremely predictable, fortunately, although I did predict some things before they happened. For example, I kinda predicted that (view spoiler)[Ben would end up in the Shade (hide spoiler)], but that didn't make the story less gripping. Actually, I kept turning the pages, untill I finally reached the end and couldn't continue. 
My favourite parts of the book, were the chapters told from Dereks point of view. I liked exploring his thoughts and feelings. Also, I really liked his thoughts about Lucas, (view spoiler)[how he was torn between wanting to protect Sofia and loyalty to his family (hide spoiler)].
This book made me laugh at certain times, and feel incredibly sad the other. Sometimes it got me extremely frustrated, in a good way. 

I didn't really like Sofia, although I didn't dislike her either. One moment I wanted to throw a rock at her, but the next, I didn't. It was kind of frustrating. The thing is, I really disliked the decisions that she made, and occasionally I caught myself thinking that she must be the most stupid girl ever. But then I realized that a huge amount of those thoughts were based on the fact that I was aggressively shipping Derek and Sofia. When Sofia (view spoiler)[tried to escape (hide spoiler)] I thought she was an idiot, but now I realize that I would have done the same, were I to find myself in her situation. 

I really hope we'll learn more about Vivienne and Corrine in the next book, they seem like two interesting characters, about who we don't know a lot, yet...

To end this review, I want to say that the amount of feelings I had about this book suprised me. I wasn't so sure about whether I would like it, or not, because of some negative reviews, but now I realize I was totally wrong for assuming such a thing. A Shade of Vampire is a great read for YA readers and people who like vampires, but want to see them in a different setting than the typical small town in the middle of nowhere. I only wished it was a bit longer, but that might just be my obsessive reader speaking.

Gemma Cameron

I loved this dark and different vampire story and I will be getting the 2nd book a shade of blood as soon as possible

Paige Green

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Book Series: A Shade of Vampire #1



Rating: 3/5



Diversity: n/a



Publication Date: December 17, 2012



Genre: YA Fantasy



Recommended Age: 15+ (blood, gore, violence, vampires, biting)



Publisher: Self



Pages: 296



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Synopsis: On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.

A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.

She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine.
An island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains.

Sofia's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is the one selected out of hundreds of girls to join the harem of Derek Novak, the dark royal Prince.

Despite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood, Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to survive even one more night.

Will she succeed? ...or is she destined to the same fate that all other girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?



Review: Overall, I thought this was a good book. It was definitely written for fans of Twilight and it oozes all sorts of vampire goodness! We got a kidnapped teen and she’s special somehow to this hot vampire dude. We’ve got mystery and intrigue in the Shade and we got a love triangle! The writing was pretty good and the plot was interesting.



However, I do feel that the character development was sorely lacking in this book and I feel that this book was just a tad bit too predictable to me.



Verdict: If you want vampires, this is your series!

Siobhán

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Christina Baltimore 

Good but not comparable to other series

I've now read the first seven books in this series and I will start by saying that I think it is a mistake to compare it to a series like Twilight or Harry Potter as it is compared to on Facebook. I found myself irritated while reading these books because I kept waiting to get the same feeling for these that I did with Twilight and Harry Potter.

That being said, this is a good series of books. I really like the characters of Sofia, Derek and a few others. The villains are easy to dislike. Some of them are outright evil and others have a blurry good/evil disposition. It becomes absolute in their choices.

Sofia, a human, begins as a weak character and grows into her self-confidence as the first book, and the series, progresses. She initially lacks self-confidence because of her absent biological parents. She believes her mother to be insane and her father to be unwilling to love her. 

Ben, a human, is the object of her affection and her best friend. Ben is selfish and his actions are his undoing where Sofia is concerned. She has always loved him and he has always pushed her to the side. He has always been superficially kind to her and genuinely loves her but he knows how she feels and thinks she will always be there waiting for him.

Derek is a vampire that has been in an enchanted sleep for 4 centuries. He suffers from the darkness that inhabits him and has been unable and unwilling to control himself. 

The Shade is a safe place for the vampires to live in darkness. It is under a spell to always be cloaked in darkness and to keep outsiders from finding its location. It has its own supply of humans, the naturals, that were born there. Other humans are brought there and once you end up at The Shade you can never leave. 

I really enjoyed this first book in the series. It was different from other vampire based books that I’ve read. There are numerous points of view which makes it a little hard to follow and repetitive at times. That is the one thing that I find a bit bothersome in this series. You are always bouncing from person to person. There is clear definition between the switches but I just didn’t care to hear some of the viewpoints of some characters

Celia Adams

...What the fuck??
This book literally god by in the blink of an eye and I don't get how so much emotion is supposed to be felt in a book that feels so rushed. Like, the couple barely seemed to know each other before being so in love they were willing to make life changing decisions. Derek and Sofia's characters were completely irrational to the story line, none of their motives made sense. Worse yet, development that should have been played out and taken lots of time was done in short summaries. It literally took a paragraph of overview to Sofia's feelings on Derek and the Shade to get to where it should have taken them probably multiple books, if not at least the whole of this one. Overall I wasn't overly pleased, I may read more books just to see what happens(there are 28 books in this series. WTF!) But it's not something I feel like 'll spend much money or time on.

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