Red-Headed Stepchild (Sabina Kane, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Aug 19, 2010 Mariya rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, urban-fantasy, magic-users

So we have a half-vampire, half mage assassin named Sabina who is trying to gain acceptance from her vampire grandmother who shows no love or adoration to Sabina. Sabina gets herself in some shit and finds out more about herself in the process from hunky and sexy mage named Adam who looked ultimately delicious in nothing but a towel. And now she has to choose sides, the Mages or the Vampires. No one said life was easy.

Sabina was one tough cookie. I don't think she really stood out like other of ...more

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Jul 02, 2010 Sherri rated it really liked it

Red-Headed Stepchild is the debut novel from Jaye Wells, so there is a bit of background development and world building in the book, but not too much that it slows the pace down. What makes this different than your typical urban fantasy/paranormal novel is the different take on the heroine that the author takes. Not only is the heroine one tough chick, but she really doesn’t start out as a likeable character. She is a half-breed vampire assassin sent to kill in the name of the vampire council an ...more

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Aug 06, 2010 ൠSinful rated it it was amazing

Shelves: uf, adventure, full-novel, vampires, contemporary, series, suspense, magic-users, fae, angels-demons-gods

I listened to the audible version of this book. I thought the narrator did a great job of capturing the different characters.

Red Headed Step Child is the first book in the Sabina Kane series, so it is the set up book- the one where the players are introduced and the world is built. Often that is boring and tedious. Not so in this novel. The action is pretty much constant and intense with new tidbits being revealed at every turn.

Sabina's parents are dead. Her father was a mage and her mother a v ...more

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Apr 09, 2010 Rachel-RN rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2013

I started out not caring for Sabina, but ended up liking her a little more by the end. Sabina's greatest weaknesses are her blind trust to her family and her inability to trust herself completely. She makes great strides in both by the end (thank goodness!). Hopefully she will learn more about the world she lives in as well. "Again I wondered how I could have lived so long and not known more about the other races."
Nice twist with the certain family member(s) too.
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Sep 29, 2011 Rebecca rated it it was amazing

3.5 stars. Good book, but I wish it had more world and character building. Also, it was slow until about half way through. I hope the rest of the books in the series are better.

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