Jennifer L. Armentrout

Originally published October 2011 Now includes bonus novella DAIMON The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1: Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem-staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

Half-Blood

JoLee

Rating 4 stars - loved it

Huge fan of YA novels with Academies and private schools. Excited that Jennifer L. Armentrout has a series with this. 

Other thing I love to read is forbidden love. Alex has a had crush on Aiden before she left the school. Now she is back and still has feelings for him. Alex is a Half Bood and Aiden is a Pure Blood. Half Boods are not allowed to have any type of romantic relationship with Pure Bloods. I love the tension between Alex and Aiden. Love it when Aiden who is always buy the book with rules try to fight his attraction toward Alex. 

I loved Alex strong will character and my heart broke for her with having to deal with the issue of her mother. Love her smart mouth and it tends to get her in more trouble. Loved how her character has backbone but it is not over the top. She still has feelings and sometimes does break down like anybody would in her situation. 

Aiden is for sure a swoon worthy hero. Always there to comfort Alex and get her back on her feet. I love how he is protective of her.

The secondary characters Seth, Caleb and Deacon are fun and add so much to the story. Love the best friend relationship with Caleb and Alex. Deacon who is Aiden’s younger brother I adore and hope to see more of him in future novels. 

Half Blood had an awesome twist I did not see coming. It was nice that it was halfway through. The ending was not a cliffhanger but it broke my heart a little and at the same time put a smile on my face. I look forward to continuing the series and see how everything will play out.

Originally posted at Wickedly Delicious Book Blog

HALF-BLOOD is the unputdownable first book in the acclaimed Covenant series from #1 New York Times bestselling Jennifer L. Armentrout. This special paperback edition also includes the prequel novella DAIMON. The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi - pure-bloods - have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals - well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1: Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem - staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

Half-Blood (a Covenant Novel)

Moon Child

Alex is back to the place that her mother took her from.. between some friends and enemies she has to catch up so she can stay and study along the others since she lost 2 years of training and studies she wants to become a sentinel and kill demons. I don’t like to go into spoiling details but over all, I was expecting the plot to follow this path and I was pleased with it, the “school” trope is enjoyable for me. I love the descriptive writing. And the way we read the book is for the first person perspective.

I enjoyed this book SO MUCH MORE the second time around. It works well in audiobook format – minus the whole thing with having the same narrator as the Lux series, which really confused me at first. I was having a difficult time separating Alex from Kat. I know when I originally read this book, I had an issue with the storyline being too similar to that of the Vampire Academy series. I think that was mostly because I had just finished that series before reading Half-Blood. The similarities seemed smaller and less distracting this time. 

I love the characters. After reading The Return, I'm more than a little obsessed with Seth. Even though I know he's not THE GUY in this series, I can't help but love him. Alex is slightly reckless, but I admire her. I love a strong female character. Love love love Aiden. He's tough and strong, sexy and sweet. I love the way Alex and Aiden play off each other. They have a ton of chemistry and I can't help but cheer for them, even though their relationship is forbidden. 

The world-building in this book is fantastic. There's a ton of action and drama. Parts of the book definitely kept me hanging onto the edge of my seat. I didn't make it through this entire series the first time because other books distracted me. I don't think that will be an issue this time around. I'm hopelessly hooked and can't wait to get back in the car and begin Pure. 

More coherent review to come soon. :)

Joke Duprez

“𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧?”
“𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲.”

This was like Vampire Academy, but without the vampires… 

No seriously, there were a lot of things that could be compared, but I didn’t mind since I actually really liked VA too. Let me just sum the similarity’s up without spoiling anything for both books:

For example, the main character Alex is so much like Rose. She was on the run, and then she went back to the school and had to catch up with training because she missed a lot. Rose was a Dhampir, and Alex is a half-blood. They’re basically the same thing. 

We also have a love interest ofcourse, and he is called Aiden. Just like Dimitri in VA, he is older then the MC, and he trains her to catch up on lost time. Alex and Aidens chemistry is undeniable, and I really hope they end up as the endgame! The sexual tension throughout this book was killing me. 

We also got villains in this book. The bad guys are called Daimons (pronounced as demons), and they’re basically pures who are turned bad. Remind you of something? Right. This is basically the same as the Strigoi in VA, which are Moroi’s who are turned bad. Oh, and they also have special daggers to kill these daimons just like in VA! 

I’m not complaining though. I actually really enjoyed all these similarity’s, and it made me really curious to see how things will work out in these books.

Other then this I just want to say that JLA is a great author, and once again her books got me addicted after only a few pages. I finished this in 2 days and I do not regret it. I will definitely be buying the next books, because shit got very interesting in the end. I’m really looking forward to see how Alex’s story will work out. 

And as you can see in the quote I used, this book also had a good portion of what I call "the JLA humor"! No one does it better than her honestly.

Liv N.

Sophie

Angel 🖤

Taryn Viera

HALF-BLOOD is the unputdownable first book in the acclaimed Covenant series from #1 New York Times bestselling Jennifer L. Armentrout. The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi - pure-bloods - have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals - well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1: Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem - staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

Half-Blood

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