Bloodfairies have a bad rap as opportunists who sell their essence to the highest bidding vampire, so Ember is reluctant to do so, even when her bad-boy boyfriend, Jasper, suggests it as a distraction to a bit of thievery. Ember lives life on the edge, but everyone else who resides there has got an angle. Jasper and his cronies are constantly aiming for the top, and none plays the angles better than his boss, Diamond, a glassfairy who sees Ember as a key piece in his careful doublecross against his own bosses. As Ember and Diamond try to play each other, they realize that more than their reputations and lives are on the line, their hearts are as well.

BLOOD CURSED does a great job creating a different reality. Some readers will be charmed and transformed by the constant adjective melding throughout the book through terms such as "dampbright" and "hellpurple" at least once a page, while other readers may find them distracting. The same can be said for Diamond's particular lingo, a style even Ember notes as unusual---he constantly blurs words together to create new ones such as "pauseify"-so that he uses multiple syllables when one or two would do--the verbal tricks do a great job of creating a new world and adding description, but some readers may have difficulty with them. The characters are well developed and interesting because no one is what he or she seems, so for a fast-paced urban fantasy, BLOOD CURSED is the book to read.

Book Summary

To a vampire, nothing is sweeter than bloodfairy essence—and Ember is the most sought-after fairy on the underworld circuit. Selling her blood to the highest bidder—and robbing her clients in the process—Ember has unwittingly become a target of dark and dangerous forces. Her enemies are everywhere. And if she hopes to survive, she needs protection…

Diamond is a glassfairy who, for better or worse, knows his way around the vampire underworld. Smooth as silk and tougher than trolls, Diamond is Ember’s only chance to keep her magical blood inside her body, where it belongs. But he also poses a threat to Ember, a strange kind of danger she’s never experienced before: She’s falling in love with him…