Reviewed by: Laura

‘Blood Bound’ is entirely different from her Shifter books, set in a completely new world and actually introduces some new concepts and supernatural beings which was quite exciting. Our heroine Liv is a blood tracker, give her someone’s blood and she can track them down. This story is set in a world where the city is run by two supernatural mafia bosses, each of whom have supernatural beings bound to work under their command.

Years ago, when she and her friends were twelve and too young to know any different, they swore a blood oath to always come to the aid on one another should it ever be needed. Liv  hasn’t seen her friends for years, but when Anne turns up and compels her to not only help and kill her husband’s murderer, but work with the ex-boyfriend she never quite got over, Liv quite literally has no choice. It’s do it or die.

I found myself very angry with Liv’s friend Anne at the beginning of the novel for forcing to not only do something against her will, but commit murder. If she was a true friend she would simply have asked. Liv is one fierce heroine, and everything in her rebels against doing something against her will. It took me a little while to warm to Liv’s ex-lover Cam too, for the same reasons as he was complicit in Anne’s compulsion.

Liv is determined and strong willed to the point of destruction, but very complicated too. She keeps a lot of secrets in the story and makes you wait to find out about them as well!

One of the things that was slightly strange with the writing style was the changing point of views. The story is written in the first person, but is narrated by two people – Liv and Cam. It would alternate quite regularly, even mid chapter, so that there were several occasions when I had to rewind and work out who was actually narrating. But it did make me warm to  Cam after his shaky start.

The story is made up of lots of component parts. From the role of the mafia bosses, the murder mystery, the new supernatural world which made a fascinating change, and the slightly painful and broken relationship between Liv and Cam. Which actually surprised me by growing on me and leaving me desperately routing for them to be able to get together again by the end.

This book is so clever, Vincent weaves so many different threads throughout the book, pulling it together at the end like a fine symphony you can’t help but sit back and be impressed at how she doesit. I personally think her writing style has definitely improved since her last series.