Follower Love Giveaway Hop

The Follower Love Giveaway Hop is hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and Rachel Renee Anderson

Welcome To The Follower Love Giveaway Hop at Unabridged Bookshelf!

This giveaway is sponsored by the amazing author of Freeblood, Marny Copal. 

Marny has offered TWO paperback ARCs of Freeblood for this INTERNATIONAL giveaway!

That means there will be TWO winners!

Secrets and lies have surrounded 21-year-old Quinn Zauber since a vampire killed her mother and brother a year ago. Jo-Jo Huang, her best friend and roommate, has offered steady support, even going along with Quinn’s crazy ghost-hunting schemes. Now Jo-Jo has been kidnapped, and clues point to an audio recorder the roomies placed in Portland’s notorious underground tunnels.With her naïve cousin Kasey riding shotgun and an old attraction, paranormal investigator Del Whelan, imposing his own brand of help, Quinn searches for Jo-Jo, fights supernaturals, and strives to keep her horrible secrets under wraps. What Quinn doesn’t realize is that her witch bloodline makes her of special interest to one of the deadliest vampires around.  Driven by nimble banter, a dash of romance, and seat-of-the-pants action, Freeblood depicts how Quinn comes to grips with the past as she battles to save her friend—and herself—from superhuman creatures and their devious schemes. No one said it would be easy, and as Quinn soon learns, desperation and hope share the landscape of a city with its own deadly secrets.

I loved this book, and I loved Quinn! She is a great, strong female lead character.

Check out my Review of Freeblood

A Sweetheart of a Deal

Didn’t win the Freeblood paperback? Don’t walk away empty-handed. From February 15 to 28, the Kindle e-book is available for 99 cents on Amazon.com.

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Review: Freeblood by Marny Copal

Title: Freeblood
Author: Marny Copel
Paperback: 346 pages
Publication Date: October 27, 2011

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Secrets and lies have surrounded 21-year-old Quinn Zauber since a vampire killed her mother and brother a year ago. Jo-Jo Huang, her best friend and roommate, has offered steady support, even going along with Quinn’s crazy ghost-hunting schemes. Now Jo-Jo has been kidnapped, and clues point to an audio recorder the roomies placed in Portland’s notorious underground tunnels.
With her naïve cousin Kasey riding shotgun and an old attraction, paranormal investigator Del Whelan, imposing his own brand of help, Quinn searches for Jo-Jo, fights supernaturals, and strives to keep her horrible secrets under wraps.
What Quinn doesn’t realize is that her witch bloodline makes her of special interest to one of the deadliest vampires around.(copied from Goodreads)

My Review

Freeblood by Marny Copal has its own unique twist on the vampire. In this world, humans that drink vampire blood fall into two categories, fastbloods or freebloods. If a human feeds on a single vampire’s blood three times in a row, they become bound to that vampire until the blood leaves their system. These are referred to as fastbloods, or vassals. Freebloods are more on the fringe of society, because they are bound to no one, and they have to switch their source of their blood on a constant basis to prevent becoming a fastblood.

At the beginning of Freeblood, Quinn and her cousin Kasey were on their way to meet Jo-Jo, when a group of fastblood kidnaps her in front of their eyes. This leads Quinn on a mission to rescue Jo-Jo, before anything happens to her. While searching for information, Quinn runs into her old instructor from the Order, Del Whelan. The Order is pretty much the supernatural policy dealing with anything that is supernatural and a risk to humans in the area. Del is investigating a magical disturbance in town, but he forces Quinn to take his help. Quinn is very stubborn, and likes to work alone, so as you can guess being forced to work with others is not her favorite game plan.

I really liked the world that Marny Copal created in Freeblood. While Quinn is far from perfect, she is a very strong female character. There are many real issues mixed into the fabric of the story of Freeblood, one of those being addiction. Vampire blood is highly addictive, and freebloods are for lack of a better word, junkies. Del Whelan is a very compatible strong male lead for Quinn. The biggest issue is Del wanting to take care of Quinn, and Quinn wanting to take care of herself. It leads to some very likable chemistry between them. I really hope Marny Copal continues this series, so I can know what happens between those two.

I would have to say, anyone who likes a strong female who takes the lead, Freeblood is going to be a great read. I would have to compare her to a slightly dark version of Buffy, or even Val from the Demon Underground series. There are also a few evil vampires to hate along the way. This book is very well written, and very enjoyable. I enjoyed Freeblood immensely and had a hard time setting it down. Big thanks to Marny for letting review Freeblood!

**Unabridged Bookshelf received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review**

Teaser Tuesday: Freeblood

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others!

Make sure to share the title and the author so other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their to be read piles.

This weeks teasers comes from:

Title: Freeblood

Author: Marny Copal

Secrets and lies have surrounded 21-year-old Quinn Zauber since a vampire killed her mother and brother a year ago. Jo-Jo Huang, her best friend and roommate, has offered steady support, even going along with Quinn’s crazy ghost-hunting schemes. Now Jo-Jo has been kidnapped, and clues point to an audio recorder the roomies placed in Portland’s notorious underground tunnels.
With her naïve cousin Kasey riding shotgun and an old attraction, paranormal investigator Del Whelan, imposing his own brand of help, Quinn searches for Jo-Jo, fights supernaturals, and strives to keep her horrible secrets under wraps.
What Quinn doesn’t realize is that her witch bloodline makes her of special interest to one of the deadliest vampires around.(copied from Goodreads)

“Yeah, if we had a decade to spare,” Quinn observed. “I don’t know if Jo-Jo can wait that long.”

Freeblood (Kindle Locations 4858-4859)

"That thing was creepy. I’m surprised you’re not just a brainless mass of ooze. But once your property defenses came back up, they were awesome: bighorn sheep, bears, cougars, a wolf. Scared everyone away.”

Freeblood (Kindle Locations 2332-2334).

What do you think?

I should have the review posted tomorrow, so come back to check that out!

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