Blood Fever

Title: Blood Fever

Author: Veronica Wolff

Publisher: New American Library

Publish Date:  7 August 2012

Pages: 290

ISBN:  978-0-451-23703-3

Source:  unrequested from publisher

Genre:  YA, romance, vampires

Series:  The Watchers

Other books in series: Isle of Night, Vampire’s Kiss, The Keep (4 June 2013)

Rating: Loved

THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME—EVEN IF HOME IS WHERE THE DEAD LIVE...

It’s the start of the fall semester, and a new crop of Acari and Trainees have descended on the Isle of Night. Watcher training has intensified, and Drew has a new roommate named Mei-Ling. But Mei-Ling harbors a dangerous secret that drove the vampires to abduct her against her will. Drew knows she shouldn’t get involved, but she can’t seem to leave her roommate to fend for herself.

Luckily, Drew has other things on her mind—like vampire Carden. A blood bond to a brawny, eighteenth-century Scottish bad boy tends to preoccupy a girl. And though she’s still figuring out what this bond means, one thing has become clear: She craves him in a major way.

But then bodies start turning up on the island. All the evidence points to the existence of a rogue vampire, and the sinister vampire Alcántara is gunning for Carden, even though Drew has proof that Carden had nothing to do with the murders. Now she has to find the true killer—without endangering Carden, Mei-Ling, or herself…

What does Acari Drew do when she is secretly bonded to a vampire, has feelings for Ronan that she doesn’t understand, has another master vampire after her and gets a new roommate?  Drew isn’t finished with her training on Eyja næturinnar aka The Isle of Night.  She is training to become a watcher, who will help protect the vampires.  The training is intense and a lot of girls have died, including Drew’s old roommate, which made her the only occupant in her room.

Then she gets a new roommate, Mei-Ling.  She is different than the other girls on the Isle of Night.  First of all, she is young; the youngest one there.  Second, she didn’t come willingly.  She was forced to come.  Drew is trying to figure out why.  Why would the vampires risk exposure to bring this girl here?  What is so important about Mei-Ling?   At first Mei-Ling is standoffish and this just intensifies Drew’s curiosity.

There are other stressors in Drew’s life on the island.  People are being killed and drained of their blood.  This is being done without permission and that is punishable by death.  Master Alcántara thinks that is the works of the vampire that they rescued in Vampire’s Kiss, Carden McCloud.   Drew was a part of that rescue and has a feeling that Alcántara didn’t want him rescued.  She tries to stay away from McCloud to not draw suspicion to him, but there is the blood bond that will prevent them from being apart.

Who is leaving the bodies on the island?  How will Drew figure this out while trying to protect Mei-Ling and McCloud?  What will happen between Drew, Alcántara and McCloud?

When I received this book in the mail, I was excited.  I had previously read and reviewed Isle of Night and Vampire’s Kiss and loved both of them.  Blood Fever was no different.  I like how Drew feels that she is responsible for people: Mei-Ling and McCloud.  She feels that she needs to protect them.  You don’t see much of Ronan in this book and that might be the only drawback.  I really liked his character.  I liked Mei-Ling and that she appeared so innocent in the book.   She has a secret that she is protecting and Drew really wants to find this out because then she might understand what the big interest in her is.

The ending of this book left me wanting more.  It was written well, but I didn’t like it.  This is what I felt like:

Drawn by Aaron Florento

 I cannot wait for the continuation of this story in The Keep.