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Blood Dragons - Release Day with Review and Giveaway

8/14/2016

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Blood Dragons
Rebel Vampires Volume 1
By Rosemary A Johns
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Fantasy Rebel Limited
Date of Publication: 14th August 2016
Number of pages: 294 

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​There are three people in this affair – and two of them aren’t human…

A hidden paranormal London lies beneath our own. Escape into the supernatural world of the Blood Lifers – where vampires are both predator and prey.

1960s London. Light is a rebel Rocker Blood Lifer with a photographic memory. And a Triton motorbike. Since Victorian times he’s hidden in the shadows. Both predator and prey. His venom is deadly. He feeds on blood. Human, of course. But when he discovers his ruthless family’s horrifying secret experiments, he questions whether he should be slaying or saving the humans he’s always feared.

Ruby is a sexy but savage Elizabethan Blood Lifer. She burns with a destructive love for Light. But he’s keeping something from her. Something that breaks every rule in Blood Life. When she discovers the truth, things take a terrifying turn.

Kathy is a seductive singer. But she’s also human. Light knows his passionate love for her is reckless but he’s enchanted. Yet such a romance is forbidden. When the two worlds collide, it could mean the end. For both species.

What dark revelations will Light reveal at the heart of the experiments? Will he be able to stop them in time? The consequences of failure are unimaginable. Unless Light plays the part of hero, he risks losing everything. Including the two women he loves.

A rebel, a red-haired devil and a Moon Girl battle to save the world – or tear it apart.
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​JULY 1866 FLORENCE, ITALY


One night we slipped into La Specola, a museum next to the Pitti Palace, which stank of something sweet but rotten. When Ruby gripped my hand tight, I realised I’d never felt this radiating from her before: it was something alike to fear but not. It was revulsion.
‘The First Lifers are proud of this…museum of death,’ Ruby breathed. ‘They call it science.’
‘We can go. Let’s find some piazza with music, drinking and dancing. The land of the living for once? Then we can…’
Ruby held her finger to my lips. ‘You need to see.’
Ruby’s hand curled tighter around mine. I glanced up. The walls of the museum were pinned with dead butterflies: every type, colour and size. They were neatly ordered, categorized and labelled. As my pulse quickened, Ruby caught my eye. She nodded.
Room after room was the same: display cases lining the walls, standing from floor to ceiling, or lying open, like glass coffins. Snow White in some twisted rendition of the tale. Rooms of stuffed birds, stilled forever on their perches, with predator next to natural prey: herbivores, carnivores, a huge hippo and a gallery of primates staring back blankly from their boxes.
We paced in silence, until we reached the primates. Then I rested my forehead on the glass, holding my palm up to touch the grasp of the chimpanzee on the other side.
Poor bugger.
Death was so close it throttled me. I’d lived close with it, intimate-like, as a Blood Lifer.
But this?
I’d known science in my First Life or reckoned I had. Yet somehow I’d failed to see the darkness underneath.
‘All that’s missing is one of us,’ Ruby’s fingers were stroking the back of my nut. ‘Then they’d have the full collection. We’re the Lost species. Why do you think we hide?’ I twisted to Ruby, shocked. She raised her eyebrow. ‘Are we not superior? Evolution’s advancement? Yet we’re adapted for masking our true face, whilst relying on humans for sustenance. Just as we do the night for protection from the sun. Prithee tell me how beggarly is a divided world, in which half does not fathom the truth? And for it to be danger akin to heresy to reveal it? Consider what these First Lifers pay to see.’
With disgust Ruby led me around the exhibits. For a moment, I thought there were mutilated cadavers laid out in the glass cases (which gave me the willies I can tell you), but then I saw they were anatomical wax models, copied from real corpses.
All right then, so that wasn’t much better because on every side were these torture victims, with their guts out, their chests ripped back and lungs offered up, as if we were about to dig in, whilst twins curled around each other bonded in uterus. The skinned man was laid on his side, arching in agony.
When I paused at a man reduced to one large circulatory system, I felt Ruby’s arms snake around my waist. She rested her chin on my shoulder. Blue and red coils circled the corpse: First Lifer reduced to food and all it’d needed was a little flaying.
Here, laid bare, was the proof that man was created for our needs.
‘They want to be feasted upon, even if they do not know it. A First Lifer is our prey. We grant the death he seeks, so he no longer needs to fear it.’
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 Wow- this was one heck of a book! If Interview With a Vampire and A Clockwork Orange eloped and had a book baby- this would be it! Thoroughly saturated with London/English slang and terms, it takes a little adjusting to get used to it, but it's on hell of a ride once you're on! You journey with Light on his journey of blood, lust, love. violence and depravity as a Blood Lifer. Hr learns to hold on to a shred of humanity once he obsessively falls in love with Kathy and cares for her into her very old demented age. The story actually starts with him caring for an elderly Kathy whose mind has collapsed due to intricate horrors which are a mystery. As the book progresses, more and more secrets are revealed til you find out the reason behind her madness. This book was completely gripping and a fun read, with lots of violence and gore which was just lovely in it's own depraved way. Underlying it all is an everlasting true love story that is beautiful to behold. A book like none other!
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​ROSEMARY A JOHNS is a traditionally published author of short stories under the name R. A. Johns. Blood Dragons is Rosemary A Johns’ debut novel.

Rosemary A Johns wrote her first fantasy novel at the age of ten, when she discovered the weird worlds inside her head were more exciting than double swimming. Since then she’s studied history at Oxford University, run a theatre company (her critically acclaimed plays have been described as "uncomfortable, unsettling and uneasily true to life"), and worked with disability charities. When Rosemary’s not falling in love with the rebels fighting their way onto the page, she heads the Oxford writing group Dreaming Spires


https://rosemaryajohns.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RosemaryAnnJohns
@RosemaryAJohns
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                                        *EXCLUSIVE LIMITED-TIME OFFER*

                     Special launch price ONLY $0.99 for five days from 14th to 18th August
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15 Comments
lorella
8/14/2016 02:16:21 pm

great idea this give away

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Sara Zielinski
8/14/2016 02:43:01 pm

Thank you for holding this giveaway.

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Rosemary A Johns link
8/14/2016 03:33:15 pm

Thanks for posting and the review! 'If Interview With a Vampire and A Clockwork Orange eloped and had a book baby- this would be it!' - one of my favourite lines about my book...ever!
I'm enjoying the release of Blood Dragons and looking forward to the release of the second book in the series - Blood Shackles - on 1st November. Hope you have a good evening!

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Maia Silverdagger
8/15/2016 09:25:15 am

Lol- I didn't know how else to describe it! It was wonderfully original and a delight to read! I'm really looking forward to the second book!

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Rosemary A Johns link
8/15/2016 09:48:33 am

Thank you - I've just started to write the third book in the series... it's great to see what people enjoy! Have a good week!

Irma J
8/15/2016 03:28:35 am

Thanks for the chance! I love the cover.

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Rosemary A Johns link
8/15/2016 03:40:30 am

The designer is the award winning JD Smith - she really understood both the series and me - so I was lucky to have her! The cover for the second book in the series - Blood Shackles - is stunning.

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Tarissa
8/15/2016 11:22:00 am

A paranormal London? Yes, please! Sounds like a fascinating setting.

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Rosemary A Johns link
8/15/2016 12:12:16 pm

My dad's a Londoner - and I had a lot of fun researching 1960's London. Hope you enjoy it!

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Paige Chandler
8/15/2016 02:32:59 pm

I love a good urban fantasy. Thank you

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Rosemary A Johns link
8/15/2016 02:37:59 pm

I love fantasy too - with an urban edge! Hope you enjoy it!

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Cyndi Flores
8/16/2016 01:21:23 pm

Love a good book, this sounds great. Thank you for the review and giveaway I look forward to reading it.

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Rosemary A Johns link
8/16/2016 01:39:14 pm

Hope you enjoy it - have a great week!

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Jerry Marquardt
8/16/2016 07:44:11 pm

I would like to thank you for your continued useful reviews and great giveaways, including the Blood Dragons Release Day with Review and Giveaway. I look forward to following your blog in the future.

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Ann
8/16/2016 09:34:09 pm

Before I'd read anything else about this book, its cover brought the following to mind: Inner workings in (and of) the heart of London's fiery underbelly.
...A little weird for a comment, sure, but-- for a bit of context-- I used to work in psychometrics (psych testing). The cover art was like a projective test; an ink blot. And after reading the synopsis, my mind was a bit blown: It kinda made sense!
Hopefully I'M making at least a bit of sense here. Thank you for the excerpt-- I'm loving the imagery.

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