Title: Wombstone
Author: Jessica Roscoe
Series: A Vampireland Novel
Genre: Paranormal (Warning Mature Readers) (Authors Note)
Publisher: Indiana Ink Publishing
Release Date: Mar 1 2013
Edition/Formats it will be available in: Ebook and Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Mia Blake wasn’t the first girl that was taken by the vampires.
She had heard all about the girls who were missing, and even though they were only “missing”, she knew in her heart that those girls were dead.
She felt sad for them, sure. But more than that, she felt glad that they had been strangers – not someone she knew, and certainly not her. Things like that didn’t happen to girls like her.
They always happened to someone else, and that’s why she barely blinked as she made her way across an empty football field, through a deserted parking lot, to meet a fate she had arrogantly assumed was reserved for other people.
She was a stupid girl.
She paid for it.
Excerpt:
“What do you want?” I kept throwing questions at him. “Who are you?”
“You are here,” he answered. “If you keep asking questions, I’ll kill you.”
“You broke my nose,” I said accusingly, narrowing my eyes.
He raised his eyebrows, coming closer, peering at my nose. “I could punch you again, straighten it up?”
I pulled my head back, just out of his reach. “I’ll be fine, thanks.”
“Do you need anything? More blankets?”
I stared incredulously at this teetering Jekyll and Hyde who wanted to punch me and get me a blankie in the same conversation. “I need to get home,” I said slowly, as if I were speaking to a moron. “I have my geometry final in two days.”
His tone was dry. “Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to be a problem anymore.”
Fear shot up my spine again. “Look” - I started.
“No, you look,” he said dangerously, putting a hot hand around my throat and squeezing. “I didn’t come in here to make casual conversation.”
I gasped and choked for air.
“Just do what you’re told. Cooperate. It will be over soon enough.”
I nodded, still choking. He released his grip and I fell to my knees, holding my throat with both hands. He waited, staring at me blankly, as I found the air to speak.
As I asked the question I wasn’t sure I wanted answered.
“Are you going to kill me?”
He laughed, but his mask slipped a little, because he faltered. “Of course not.”
“Well then you’re pretty stupid,” I shot. “Letting me see your face. Your license plate. Your tattoo.” I pointed to the black, luminous symbol etched onto his wrist that looked like a pair of eagles wings.
“Are you trying to talk me into it?” he asked with a smirk.
I glared at him.
“I know what you’re doing, sweetie. You’re trying to provoke me.”
“How am I doing so far?”
He grinned like the smug bastard he was. “Terribly.”
Review:
Wombstone by Jessica Roscoe is fantastic. It was an enjoyable read from the beginning and it didn't take me long to get into it either. I have read several vampire books in the past and all of them were different and really great. Wombstone has just been added to my list of awesome vampire books.
Mia Blake is a beautiful 17 year old girl from New Jersey. She attends and lives on campus at Blair Academy, a preppy and expensive high school. She is a senior and is on the track team. Running is a sport that she loves to do. Mia has been filling out college applications and planning her future. Most of Mia’s life hasn’t been that great growing up. She was very close to her dad until he recently passed away and her mother wasn’t around much back then, so she doesn’t have much to do with her now. Mia is parent less and on her own, but she does have her best friend, Evie and a wonderful boyfriend Jared in her life.
One night after leaving campus, Mia’s life is turned upside down and will never be the same. This is where Mia Blake’s story begins about being kidnapped and taken away from her home.
Mia is very scared as she doesn’t know where her kidnapper has taken her. She knows that she is in a room in some building and that she is not alone. A young teenage girl, in the room with her, speaks up and tells her that she has been there for a long time. She tells Mia that they are not the only girls that were held there. Soon enough, Mia’s kidnapper shows up. He is a young handsome man name Ryan and he takes her to their boss Caleb, who is a very bad man.
Mia has never believed in vampires but then something happens to change everything for her. She must escape this nightmare and get away from both Caleb and Ryan. With a little help from Ryan, they both finally escape starting their journey together.
While they are together on this journey, Mia and Ryan have some kind of an attraction for each other but it is very complicated. Mia still doesn’t care or trust Ryan because he was responsible for what happened to her. Ryan told Mia that they have a bond and that he is responsible for her safety. I wonder what is going to happen with Mia and Ryan and will Mia ever learn how to trust him with her life.
While I was reading, I could feel the fear, pain and anger that Mia Blake felt throughout the nightmare that she was in. All she wanted was to be normal again and go back to her old life in New Jersey before she was kidnapped, but she knows deep down that it isn’t going to happen. Will Mia ever get through this nightmare that she is in? Will she be able to accept her life the way it is?
Jessica Roscoe has done an awesome job writing Wombstone. I have really enjoyed reading it and I am looking forward to reading the sequel. This is different from any of the vampire books I have read so far and I would definitely recommend Wombstone to all my friends.
I give Wombstone 5 Dandy's!!
Author Bio:
Jessica Roscoe is the author of Wombstone, a Young Adult paranormal novel. From a young age, she delighted in the written word and would often scare her poor parents with outlandish stories filled with the supernatural and macabre.
Jessica studied film and screenwriting at university before deciding that novels were her calling. The setting for Wombstone was inspired by a six-month stint in the U.S. where she worked as a lifeguard at a summer camp in Mt Freedom, New Jersey. She is currently working on the next book in the Vampireland series. Her other loves in life include good quality tea, delicious wine, reading and hanging out with her husband and baby girl.
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