Devina

by Kayla Smith

When I was five years old, I watched as my parents were murdered before my eyes. Now, twenty years later, I have become something most humans fear, and I am back with a vengeance, to kill the two men responsible for taking my family away from me.
I am a vampire, but I am far more lethal than the vampires you see on the television. If you cross paths with me, you are likely to die. My name is Devina Lockwood, and I am here to kill the President and Vice President of the United States of America.

196 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 31, 2016

Reviews

[Heather Rizkallah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

Kayla has done it again. The way this book is written makes you feel like you are watching this play out as a person on the scene. Devina witnesses her parents murders and calls her buff Ally to help get. She is a little 5 year old vampire from a royal blood line. Ally makes her a sister and her parents raise Devina at 25 she starts the journey to get all the answers from the man who killed her parents. Along the way, she finds her mate. The last remaining royal blood line around kits in Devina and Sebastian's blood. They have to rebuild the vampire community with strength once these murders are dealt with

[Janet Armentani · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story is very good, but the copy I received has not been edited. I kept getting stuck on the grammar and editing problems which is unfair to the story. I'll read it again after the corrections are made to the content.

[Christopher Schmitz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book expecting something similar to Twilight, in many ways. I was right—and I’m not a big fan of the series (although I do enjoy Myers’ sci-fi more than her paranormal and do respect her success in the craft.) There’re some things I like and don’t care for so much. Firstly—I like vampires… it’s just that my tastes run much more V:TES than Twilight or City of Bones, so take my review with a grain of salt. Right from the table of contents I see some things that I like: hints that we’re going to see a character arc that spans centuries. I like that—I also like the aristocracy that is set up in Devina’s family (a kind of Vampire royalty which she belongs to—just don’t spend much time thinking about vampires procreating or maturing from child to adult (think more of a Marvel plot device like Blade or Morbius as opposed to Dracula or Twilight). What I didn’t care for: first person point of view… it’s a difficult one to master, and while the writing gets much better later in the book, there’s quite a bit of passivity involved until the characters are firmly established. I read Devina because it was given to me, but after the action ramps up in later chapters I did realize that I might actually have picked this book up on my own if it was written with a different POV (even if I’m admittedly not a member of the primary audience).