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Reign of Blood (Reign of Blood #1)

by Alexia Purdy (Goodreads Author)

3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 · rating details · 447 ratings · 149 reviews

"Never tease anything that wants to eat you. My name is April Tate and my blood is the new gold. Vampires and hybrids have overrun my world, once vibrant with life, but now a graveyard of death shrouded in shadows. I fight to survive; I fight for my mother and brother. The journey is full of turns that I am quite unprepared for. And I'm just hoping to make it to the next V...more

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Dec 04, 2012 Jeann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian, dark-and-gritty, vampires

April Tate is a survivor amongst the post-apocalyptic world with a single goal that keeps her breathing – to find her brother and mother. A viral epidemic has sweeped the nations and turned the population into feral, mindless vampires who are solely out for feeding on humans. The feral vampires are very zombie-like in their demeanour, in fact throughout the first half of the novel I had a hard time differentiating them from actual zombies, except for the fact that they are repelled by sunlight.

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Jun 16, 2012 June Luu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-vampires-and-other-stuff, favorites, love-adventure, have-to-have, love-paranormal

I finished this in one day and it is sooo good....I HAVE NEVER ENJOYED A BOOK THAT HAS VAMPIRES IN IT THIS MUCH!!! I usually hate reading vampire books but this one is soo different than others vampire books... THIS IS A MUST READ..!!!!! 1000/100

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Nov 28, 2012 Amy marked it as to-read

WICKED AWESOME!!!!! Reign of Blood will BLOW YOU AWAY!!!!
Alexia did a fantastic job at her first urban fantasy book! Like nothing I've ever read before.. it gave me the chills reading it! action-packed, thrilling, Explosive!!! best book you will ever find yourself reading! i couldn't put this book down and before i knew it i had finished the book and i wasn't ready for it to end!(i should have read it slower so i could savor it that much longer.. LOL) i could definitely see another book! i reall...more

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Apr 27, 2012 Peggy Martinez rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviews, favorites

I was honored to receive an ARC for review from the Author!

The cover of Reign of Blood drew my eye, the first sentence- "Never tease anything that wants to eat you." snagged my attention, and the book itself kept me glued to my kindle clicking pages, on the edge of my seat, waiting to see what would happen next.

There is just something about a strong young female lead character that never fails to interest me more than a weak, helpless one. April definitely fits into the strong female charact...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Devon Ashley rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: indie-authors, for-review, reviewed-on-blog

"Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Words to live by if you wanna survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

Besides her mother and little brother, April Tate seems to be the last human left in Las Vegas after a virus caused serious mutations worldwide, turning humans into vampires. Her family seems to be immune, and being the last ones in the city makes it easy to raid the city for supplies during the daytime. That is until the day April went off to the drugstore alone, and came back to fin...more
"Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Words to live by if you wanna survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

Besides her mother and little brother, April Tate seems to be the last human left in Las Vegas after a virus caused serious mutations worldwide, turning humans into vampires. Her family seems to be immune, and being the last ones in the city makes it easy to raid the city for supplies during the daytime. That is until the day April went off to the drugstore alone, and came back to find her mother and brother gone. She immediately suspects the vampires found a way to collect them during the daylight hours and begins a long, exhausting campaign to check every building down the strip in order to find them again. Days later she's blown up several buildings with hives, but has yet to find her family. And the nights are no easier, as a strange group of vampires begin appearing outside her hidden bunker, who almost seem intelligent. When bombing another building, things go awry and April finds herself trying to survive her own blast, only to be saved by one of the vampires that had been stalking her homestead. Dumbfounded that a vampire was able to not only speak, but willing to save her life, she returns to the vampire's homestead when told they know about the whereabouts of her missing family. April slowly learns that nothing is as it seems, including her own mortality.

Reign of Blood isn't exactly a new literally concept, and in fact is strikingly similar to The Weepers and such, but there were a few new twists to the story that kept me intrigued. I was immediately curious as to why April and her family survived. They're nothing special, and the only reason April knew how to fight was because she buried herself in fighting How-To videos and stripped the hunting stores of their weapons once the world went to crap. And she's not the only one surprised by her survival. When a secondary, more intelligent, vampire type saves her life and explains that they are a vampire-human hybrid able to walk in sunlight, they too are curious and want to run tests on April's blood to see if her DNA might hold the key to curing them. Unfortunately for her family, they're being held by a rival group for the same purpose, but they're kept as prisoners whereas April is mostly allowed to roam free at her own risk (cause not every hybrid vampire is glad she's around).

Devising a plan to save her family, April is slightly distracted by Rey, one of the leaders of the hybrids. Maybe it's cause she hasn't seen a hot guy since they all went extinct, but she can't help but feel a smidgen of interest towards him, and him to her. Some might call this insta-love, but really it's cause a lot of the vampires become imprinted on one another, and even married couples split up and go for someone new. But humans don't imprint. And if April is actually imprinting on Rey, then maybe she's not as immune to the virus as she once thought, and just perhaps, there's a more frightening reason why she's managed to survive this long in a post-apocalyptic world full of blood-sucking vampires.

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Jul 26, 2012 Hazel G. ( I ♥ Mr. Grey) *Fifty Shades obsessed* . rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Hazel G. ( I ♥ Mr. Grey) *Fifty Shades obsessed* by: The Nexus R2R

Shelves: dystopia, fantasy, paranormal-romance, science-fiction, young-adult

Reign of Blood is a YA fantasy/dystopia written by Alexia Purdy. I read this as a R2R with The Nexus! As always, a special thank you to the mods and author for allowing me to participate.

The Review:
I really wanted to love this book because it had some terrific reviews. However, after completing this read I had to settle on only three stars.

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I enjoyed the overall premise of this story and the world the author created was intimidating and chilling. I loved the character development. The her...more Reign of Blood is a YA fantasy/dystopia written by Alexia Purdy. I read this as a R2R with The Nexus! As always, a special thank you to the mods and author for allowing me to participate.

The Review:
I really wanted to love this book because it had some terrific reviews. However, after completing this read I had to settle on only three stars.

Likes:
I enjoyed the overall premise of this story and the world the author created was intimidating and chilling. I loved the character development. The heroine, April Tate, was well written and I liked how mature and warrior-like she was given her young age of seventeen. Surviving the past year of her life through an outbreak and fighting feral vampires would definitely age a person well past their years and the author did a terrific job of showing this. I also really liked the distinction between the different hybrids of vampires. I thought it was cleaver and well done. The love interest, Rye, was intriguing and well described. The ending of the book was action packed and left off with enough of a cliffhanger to interest the reader further.

Dislikes:
This particular plot has been done before, but you can recreate an overdone plot and make it your own if it’s done correctly. And all the points were there to make this a great story but the writing fell flat for me. Im not a huge fan of “told” stories. I like to live through the scenes with the characters, not be told about it after the fact and this book had a lot of “telling” in it. The beginning was to slow for me. I felt like the heroines isolation dragged on for too long and I also felt like there just wasn’t enough happening to carry the story forward. Toward the end the action picked up and was really well done but by that point I was pushing myself to finish it. I also didn’t care for some of the dialogue. It felt forced and some of it didn’t make sense.

The Wrap Up:
I think with a bit more editing of the story as well as dialogue, I could have given this book a much higher rating. I’m intrigued enough to want to know what happens next so I’ll probably go on to read book two, Disarming (Reign of Blood 2) that’s scheduled to come out in 2013 but it won’t be at the top of my list.
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May 29, 2012 Melissa Simmons rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal, suspense, utopya, favorites, indie

Reign of Blood, the first book in a new series by Alexia Purdy, takes place in a dystopian future Las Vegas where vampirism is a sickness that has ravaged the world and mutated all its inhabitants in some way. A new and interesting take on the vampire genre, this book was phenomenal. I read it in one evening.

The story is told from the point of view of our main character, April, a kick-ass girl with a determination to survive and save her family in a world gone crazy. It's a fast-paced thrill rid...more

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Jul 11, 2012 ReadingDiva rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Review: Whoa, talk about non-stop action and great characters. I came across this book recently and decided to give it a try to make it part of my July Dystopia Month, I am quite happy I did. The result is this review. I struggled a bit trying to come up with the right words to describe how much I enjoyed it.

The post apocalyptic America that Alexia Purdy has created is different from any other dystopia/post-apocaly...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Jill rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dark-fantasy-horror, fantasy, r2r, dystopian

Well, I just lost a huge review, because my computer is stupid, so I hope this one is just as good.
I received this book for an honest review.

Since I already wrote the fluffy stuff once, I'll just cut to the chase. Reign of Blood is a decent read. It's quick, has lots of action, is not boring, and I didn't feel like it was a chore I had to complete because I said I would (like some advanced reading copies can be).

Pros: Loved the first line of the book. Wow! April, the heroine, is quite interesti...more Well, I just lost a huge review, because my computer is stupid, so I hope this one is just as good.
I received this book for an honest review.

Since I already wrote the fluffy stuff once, I'll just cut to the chase. Reign of Blood is a decent read. It's quick, has lots of action, is not boring, and I didn't feel like it was a chore I had to complete because I said I would (like some advanced reading copies can be).

Pros: Loved the first line of the book. Wow! April, the heroine, is quite interesting. She stepped from her shallow party girl Las Vegas life right into leather wearing, dark huntress, vampire slayer without much angst. She might miss her old life, but the new one suits her. She had been lucky that her mother, brother and herself had found a survivalist's bunker outside the city so they have a safe refuge to return too after scoring the city by day in search of supplies. April is strong, her character is dynamic and she seemed real; full of uncertainty, ranging through levels of self doubt, but still strong and determined. The story, although not perfectly original (There was a chunk that sounded just like the novella "I Am Legend")was interesting. The "feral" vampires were creepy, all part zombie part vampire monster.

Cons: I wanted to say that the story wasn't orginal enough for me, but as I thought about it some more, I didn't think that detracted much. The first half of the book flowed well. It built the world nicely and seemed balanced and patient. The second half felt hurried and it lost some of the flow, world building, and well, writing style that the first half had. The only beef I had with the first half was April calling the vampires "feral vampires" at that point, she and the reader only believe there are humans and vampires period. It sort of annoyed me and gave away that something else was coming later. One more, I hated that every time April speared some vamp, they dripped "blood and ichor." Ichor's an awesome word, but repetition caused it to lose effectiveness.

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There were some holes in the second half of the book. Several, actually, but the one that bothered me the most was when Christian (the villain) tells April that since she was a human she was weak, and later (after she leaves him dying) that humans are strong and will end up ruling the earth. The truth is, Christian (and the reader) both know that April isn't human. There's the whole big work up how she and her family are just another type of hybrid that don't have to drink blood, but become super human if they do. There are no humans left in April's world.

Also towards the final quarter of the book, the writing sort of devolved, (I think that Ms. Purdy is a great story teller, but got rushed at the end)so maybe didn't get the proofreading needed. Here's a quote, "His wild look was gone instead the serenity of a man accepting defeat washed over him, making him look slightly gaunt but handsome once more." What? Someone accepting defeat may be resigned, but I doubt they'd be serene. Also, why slightly gaunt? If you want to say he's handsome, just say, resigned to his fate, the anger died and he was handsome once more. One of my pet peeves are writers with a thesaurus and no edit button. Sometimes the simple is the most profound! (Believe me, I'm guilty of this too.)

Overall, I'd recommend Reign of Blood to those who like YA dystopian, or YA dark fantasy. It does have scenes of gore and lots of blood, so keep that in mind. It's a fast read, entertaining and a decent story.(less)

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Jul 26, 2012 Shieka( Doctor's Notes) rated it 5 of 5 stars

I loved everything about this book. Purdy has a sure fire hit on her hands and I can't wait for book 2. We start this book out with us meeting April who along with her mom and brother are the only humans left alive as far as they know. They hunt down vampires while trying to stay alive. April is my type of heroine. She is so tough and kick butt and amazing. I loved her snark and how quick on her feet she was.

There are some unforseen events that occur and April is all on her own trying to find he...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Amber rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have to say when I first got into this book I didn't think I would like it as much as I ended up liking it, for the reason being, blood, guts and glory. That is what the book seemed to be about when I first started and that's not the kind of books I am into. Although it did have a lot to do with that there was so much more to Reign of Blood than that and I was soon to find out the further I got into it.

April was a force to be wreckened with, such a fierce and strong character who also has hear...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: end-of-the-world, favorites, must-read, ya-paranormal-romance, young-adult, i-heart-alexia, zompire

This was a good book. The first 10% is a little slow moving as we get to know April. The rest of the book is gripping as April fights off rabid vampires or Zompires as they seem to be a mix of both. When she meets the hybrid vampires she learns more about herself and learns that not all vampires are evil.
What I liked:
April was a good lead character. She was tough but had enough vulnerability to be believable. Rye was a good match for her and although the suffer from what Author Rhiannon Frater c...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Sarah Dowlin rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read an ARC of this book and I seriously couldn't stop reading it! This story takes a very new and interesting take on Vampirism taking the form of a virus that virtually wipes out the population except one family. This is their story of survival, testing the bonds of family and how far you would go for the ones you love. I have even convinced my husband who doesn't usually read the books I do to read this and it is taking all my will power not to blurt out the ending and spoil it for him just...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Beth (Curling Up With A Good Book) rated it 4 of 5 stars

I started into this book so excited. The book cover is FANTASTIC! I had also heard lots of great things about it! I immediately loved the main character, April. I loved her will to survive and how she adapted to the new world. She taught herself skills and combat moves to help her survive in this deadly world. Although I loved her character...I did have somewhat of a dislike with the whole "bunker" concept. I mean...everyone dies and becomes vampires and she just happens upon a solar powered bun...more

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Jun 05, 2012 BeLoved Book Reviews rated it 4 of 5 stars

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April, her mom Helen, and her little brother Jeremy are trying to survive after a viral epidemic that has wiped out almost all of the human population and turn them into feral vampires. It's been a year since the outbreak April has become a fierce vampire killer. When her mom and brother are taken April will stop at nothing to find out who took them. When Miranda saves her April finds out there's a new breed of vampires and they are nothing like the feral vampires. April is unsure who...more

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May 02, 2012 Merisha28 marked it as to-read

Shelves: favorite

I had the honor of reading an advanced Arc from the author. :)

This book blew my socks off!! I loved it!! I really didn't know what I was in for. I love the character April and her being hero/ bad girl persona. I also loved the character Rye and am left wanting more!!! This story is about a young adult girl named April with her mom and brother after a virus has mutated the human race into Wildings/ Feral vampires, hybrids, and the more human (April). On a day that they are in the town of Las Vega...more

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May 05, 2012 Katie rated it 5 of 5 stars

THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ, LOVE THE DETAILS IN THE BOOK, IF YOU WANT TO READ A VERY GOOD BOOK YOU NEED TO READ THIS...IT IS SO AWESOME....LOVE IT:):)

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Mar 09, 2013 Julie Ramsey rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: done

(Reign of Blood #1)
by Alexia Purdy
In a post-apocalyptic world, a viral epidemic has wiped out most of the earth’s population, leaving behind few humans but untold numbers of mutated vampires. April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a ferocious vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes searching for them. What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any she has seen before. Unsure of whom she can tru...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Heather andrews rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm not going to lie I was a little hesitant about reading this book, and it has nothing to do with Alexia, she's a wonderful and I do mean wonderful author and love her writing, it was the content of the book. I'm not really into apocalyptic books (well that's what I thought this book was) anywho, I got to reading and what I realized was April was truly kicka**, I mean the girl carries a machete, A MACHETE people!!! First thoughts on Blaze well he was hot or at least his description said/descri...more

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Apr 06, 2013 Margo (DamesUnrestrained.blogspot.com) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, thriller, young-adult, kindle-lendable

Summary
Reign of Blood is the story of a teenage girl, April, trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world where a virus has turned everyone but her, her mother, and her brother into vampires. When her family is kidnapped during a supply run, April desperately searches for them and finds a very different group of vampires who might be able to help her. This is a Young Adult novel with lots of violence but no sex. It's worth the $2.99 cover price although there are better post apocalypse novels a...more

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Feb 27, 2013 Jemma Gutierrez rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: boring, annoying-heroine, zombie

Ughhhh...this book....
So im goanna talk about what i liked first:
> The writer is great at writing action! Every action comes alive.

The flaws:
1. Weak connections between the characters
Our author did not do the romance well. The connection between our heroine and hero is really weak, there is no substance or depth. I'd undertand if they're just friend but they cuddle together! They kiss after a few days of meeting each other and I felt baffled because there really was NOTHING between them. Th...more

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Jan 09, 2013 Cailea Matusewic rated it 4 of 5 stars

I had a hard time getting into Reign of Blood initially, but once I hit chapter 7 or so I ended up awake until 2 AM finishing up the entire book. I love that Alexia Purdy slipped unexpected twists in the book for the main character, April. I also had to smile a little at the beginning when the author paints a picture of April's personality. April acts like most teenagers would. She doesn't say "I don't want to make my mother angry." She says "I don't want to piss her off." Gives you an idea of t...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Krystal Marlein rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: drop-everything-read-now-author

"Never tease anything that wants to eat you." That is the opening line and it is, to me, the most memorable opening I've read yet. I was hooked and let me tell you. This book did NOT disappoint. I bought a copy when it first came out simply because of the awesome cover. Yesterday Ms. Perdy was looking for reviewers and since I already owned it I said yes! OMG am I glad I did. She has spun a wonderful tale of vampires that I have not read or experienced before. The way she writes is beautiful and...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Jenna rated it 5 of 5 stars

I bought Reign of Blood because I enjoyed Alexia's Fairy series and figured I give it a try. The first line had me laughing, and then you jump right into the story. It's not one of those books that's slow, then picks up as you go, it transports you to another world where humans are dead or have been turned into zombie-like vampires right from the beginning. The only humans left, April, her little brother and her mother fight against these vampires, surviving in an abandoned shelter in the mounta...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Heather Alexander rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is a dystopian vampire novel. April is a teenager forced to grow up before her time. A plague either killed or turned the population of the planet into mindless vampires that feed off the blood of anything with a pulse. April, her mother and younger brother Jeremy live in a bunker in the woods. It is fully equipped with all of the necessities for survival and then some. Food, Water, Heat, security, cameras, etc. They still go out to scavenge in case there comes a time when they have to...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, dystopian, so-you-like-zombies-slash-pandemics, paranormal-romance, road-trip-survival-on-the-run

This was a great dystopian, paranormal-pandemic novel. I really enjoyed the book but was unsatisfied by the ending.

So the plot goes something like this (no spoilers): April, April's mother and April's brother appear to be the last remaining "humans" in Las Vegas. And once her family get abducted (in broad daylight - despite knowledge that vampires can only come out at night), April becomes the very last.

After being on her own for a few days (and going a little bug crazy), she meets some vampires...more

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Sep 14, 2012 Books rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed

I’ll be the first to admit that one theme I’m growing continuously tired of reading is vampires. Yes, you heard me right. Vampires. I’ve read countless books this year built around the vampire theme and it’s becoming monotonous, predictable, and draining (no pun intended). So along comes Alexia Purdy with “Reign of Blood”, and she completely blows me away with this action-packed, post-apocalyptic novel centered on the vampire theme, but so uniquely different it left me giddy with delight.

I’m ab...more I’ll be the first to admit that one theme I’m growing continuously tired of reading is vampires. Yes, you heard me right. Vampires. I’ve read countless books this year built around the vampire theme and it’s becoming monotonous, predictable, and draining (no pun intended). So along comes Alexia Purdy with “Reign of Blood”, and she completely blows me away with this action-packed, post-apocalyptic novel centered on the vampire theme, but so uniquely different it left me giddy with delight.

I’m absolutely passionate about strong, take-no-nonsense, female protagonists, and it thrills me to no end when they kick butt like it’s going out of style. Once I determined that the heroine wasn’t going to mope and balk at every obstacle she had to face, I relaxed and lost myself in a story where fear and uncertainty is the order of the day for the last three humans alive. April is everything I expect a formidable vampire slayer to be. Her strong points are hand-to-hand combat, a good aim when throwing hand-grenades, using machetes to slice off vampire heads with the same ease we use knives to butter toast, the ability to make Lara Croft eat dust (okay, I just threw that in there), and doesn’t think twice to go after every feral vampire in dead and decaying Las Vegas to find and rescue her mom and little brother.

Of course, if a book begins with the sentence, “Never tease anything that wants to eat you”; it has my immediate, undivided attention. To add to that, I also have a newfound fascination with post-apocalyptic novels, and however much I no longer enjoy reading about all sorts of same-old, same-old vampires, the ones in this story were thoroughly terrifying. One paragraph that had me giggling was the mention of Gotye’s song “Somebody that I use to know”. It was a nice touch and very appropriate in the tongue-in-cheek context it was used.

Kudos to Alexia Purdy for drawing me into a story where the fiery action never ends, the romance isn’t sappy or causes you to roll your eyes in exasperation, and a plot that builds up to an explosive finale with a nice big surprising twist. She deftly sketches a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas in a way that is easy to visualize and makes you feel as though you’re smack dab centre in the fighting scenes, in the midst of the death and decay of this once bustling city.

I hope there will be more books to follow on this one, and I’ll definitely be reading more by this author whose writing had me glued to the pages from start to finish. “Reign of Blood” will satisfy many a bookworm’s appetite – splendid writing, a marvelous storyline, and a read I highly recommend! (less)

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Sep 01, 2012 Kimsandara rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: blah-read, ya-books, okay-read

I had been anxious to read Reign of Blood.I mean really anxious,I would torture myself by re-reading the synopsis ,hoping that someday I'd have enough money to buy it and a few others(bookaholic syndrom).
However,Reigh of Blood proved to be an average read.

It started well, with a strong heroine ,a lot of action and some emotion (well,she is not an robot,she can have one meltdown or two considering that she's preyed upon by vampires),but as soon as I reached the middle of the book which is essenti...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Wanda Panda Hartzenberg rated it 5 of 5 stars

What a nice post apocalyptic paranormal thriller. Alexia's ability to describe a world, so known and so foreign all at once is commendable. The struggles for survival is one I found to be both true and believable and the multi layered approach she used in moving the plot along and fluffing out the character as well as building toward a climax was easy to follow but still entertaining and kept this reader at the tip of my chair. I spent my time reading this book, cheering for some characters, war...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Lyra Zapanta rated it 5 of 5 stars

Reign of Blood takes place wherein the human race has gone extinct, due to the vampire virus that spread out. Ferals run loose during the nights on the once bright streets of Las Vegas and occupy the dark bowels of casinos and other buildings. Litter dead bodies are scattered everywhere, the last remnants of a once beautiful city.

The book tells the story of April Tate, a young teenager who has grown to be a warrior for her and her family's survival. During the day, they would search around super...more

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Alexia currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada–Sin City! She loves to spend every free moment writing or playing with her four rambunctious kids. Writing has always been her dream and she has been writing ever since she can remember. She loves writing paranormal fantasy and poetry and devours books daily. Alexia also enjoys watching movies, dancing, singing loudly in the car and Italian food. She is...more

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