Blood Knight (Chimera, Book 0.5) - Anca Antoci

The Hunter, The Witch and the Vampire. The Chronicles of Chimera: An Introduction.

Blood Knight is a novella prequel to the excellent Chimera urban fantasy series. If you haven’t read that series, you should definitely get it after you’ve read this.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s an excellent introduction to the Chimera series and gives us a better perspective of some key characters. I love the writing, the world building and the characters. 

Ella is a witch who is running for her life. Her family has sold her magic to the High Priestess of the coven who wants it all but Ella is not willing to comply. 

Hot on Ella’s heels is a bounty hunter who is known for fulfilling his contracts every time. He is not willing to give up on his hunt.

Ari is a centuries-old vampire. He spends his nights running a bar in a quiet town. His relatively calm life is interrupted when Ella arrives at his back door, bleeding and scared. Despite the age-old animosity between vampires and witches, Ari is not willing to leave Ella to the whims of either the bounty hunter or Ella’s coven.

If you like your books focused on the world of the paranormal, I definitely recommend this. 

Reading order:

Blood Knight, Chimera, Book 0.5

Forget me Not, Chimera, Book 1

Blue Shadow Prophecy, Chimera, Book 2

Blue Shadow Legacy, Chimera, Book 3

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Blue Shadow Prophecy (Chimera, Book 2) - Anca Antoci

Another excellent book in this Fantasy series. 

This is the second book in the Chimera series. The book is set in modern day USA. There is no romance in this book, although the potential for it is alluded to.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It went in a completely different direction to the one I had expected and it was all the better for it. The writing was really easy to read despite English not being the first spoken language of the author, there were a few things which the editor should have picked up but nothing insurmountable and it didn’t interrupt the flow. The story is well paced and interesting. There are a plethora of new characters, all of which are well developed. 

Rae’s introduction to the supernatural was more of a trauma than an adventure. She wasn’t meant to remember it but she does. She is persuaded that it is her destiny to join the Resistance and she sets off on that path but her life is once more derailed after the induction ceremony which gifts her the powers of The Huntress. Her eyes are opened to wider issues, she learns about other realms and once again, it appears that her world was not all that it seemed. Rae has important decisions to make; some of which mean life or death for those around her. 

If you love fantasy books, I’d definitely recommend this series. I’m looking forward to reading the third one when its published, which I believe is not too far off. 

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Forget Me Not (Chimera, Book 1) - Anca Antoci

Things which go bump in the night. An excellent start to a new series. 

Forget me Not is the first book in a new Fantasy series by Anca Antoci. The book is set in modern day Alaska. There is the potential for romance but none in this book and no descriptive scenes of a sexual nature.

I really enjoyed this book. The story was refreshing and different. The writing was really easy to read and although there was the odd hint at English not being the first spoken language of the author, there wasn’t anything which stood out as being incorrect. The story was well paced and interesting. The characters developed well as the book progressed and I ended the book very much wanting to see what the second book will bring.

Rae’s life has crashed down around her ears. Everyone in her immediate family is gone. Dead. She’s the only one left, apart from an estranged aunt who she’s had no contact with in almost a decade. After her sister’s funeral, Rae travels to Alaska to find her long-lost aunt. What she finds instead is a long empty cabin and news that her aunt has been missing for the last eight years. Grief and depression combine and she makes a foolish decision which has life altering consequences. 

Don’t go wandering in the forest at night. More specifically, don’t go wandering barefoot in the forest at night after downing a cocktail of booze and antidepressants. Definitely don’t go wandering barefoot in the forest at night wishing for death. There are creatures out there who might just answer your request and who won’t want to listen if you change your mind. 

Rae’s venture into the forest at night has opened her life to a world she never knew existed and one which has given her life purpose. Vampires and Shifters are real; not just characters in the books she reads. Her own life has not been what she believed it to be and there’s a good chance she herself isn’t the person she thought she was. Sadly for her, the only way for her to get out of the forest alive is for her memory to be wiped. How will she manage going back to the empty shell of life she had before? Will she manage to live up to her full potential without the new information she has learned? Can she figure out an alternative before its too late?

Book two is already out. It’s on my list to read. 

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