Justine: Into The Blood (Blood and Passion Book 1) By Carole Gill
Published September 3, 2014
Pages 242
Blurb:
Born in pre-Revolutionary France and orphaned as a child, Justine Bodeau is taken in by a family friend who employs her as a seamstress. Eventually, she winds up to work in the court of Queen Marie Antoinette.
A strong-willed survivor, defeat does not occur to her. When she fights off an attack by an aristocrat and kills him, she is given refuge but is soon betrayed and winds up on the streets of Paris, where she is attacked and killed by rogue vampires. But for whatever reason, love will not let her die.
Justine goes from wishing to be destroyed to wanting to survive, when she feels passion for the one who brought her back, Gascoyne — the one they call the Vampire Prince of Paris.
Excerpt:
I spoke to Anat at last. I found her to be a strange Vampire, indeed. Her English wasn’t too good and we could not converse in French or in Egyptian so we plodded on as best we could with Ramet translating.
“You are his friends,” she said. “You and your love. Ramet told me. I am so pleased—it is a relief that can almost not be felt after such a long time. One gets accustomed to suffering and joy or relief seem to be diseases.”
I agreed and told her of my existence. She said she had been in Morocco in the past—centuries earlier. It sounded the same sort of set up I had experienced.
“There was love for me, or lust shall I say. Those sultans are gifted in the art of love and many of them have Vampire mistresses and harems. It is an odd craving they have. Still, humans differ as Vampires do.”
We spoke of the plague next and she said as Ramet did, she recalled many such plagues, adding there would always be more. “I did think,” she said, “that they were the result of wars, too. It is an outlandish thing, is it not? It seems the gods punish humans for their violence and turn them into monsters. . . ”
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Justine loses both of her parents at a young age. She loses her mother at the age of ten and her father four years later. She was taken in by a family friend where she learned how to sew. After many years her work as a seamstress is discovered by the Queen who then takes her in and gives her a job as a seamstress. Justine loves living at the palace with the Queen until she is attacked and runs away because she is afraid.
This night starts a long journey for Justine one she is not sure she wants to travel but has no choice. One dark night of her journey Justine is attacked again but this time she is attacked by rogue vampires but along comes Gascoyne her one and only true savior. He brings her back from the dead to live a new life a life of eternity. She is now a vampire but she is different than the vampire that attacked her she is like the vampire that saved her.
When she is first turned Justine is very upset about it and his mad at her creator and hates who she has become. She hates the dark person that she is now. But she soon learns on her journey with all of the things that she has to endure and all of the things that she sees that all creatures' humans and vampires are all alike. She learns that there are good vampires and humans but there are also bad humans and vampires. She learns that some have hearts and some don't. She learns that it doesn't matter if you are a human or a vampire that you can love and just because she has been turned into a vampire doesn't mean that she can't feel love in heart and she can care about someone human or vampire.
I have had the privilege of reading Carole's novels The Blackstone Vampires and was very happy when she asks me if I wanted to read Justine: Into the Blood. I love reading about vampires and have loved reading Carole's books. Carole knows how to pull you into her novels and make you feel as if you are one of the characters yourself. You feel as if you are standing off to one side watching and listening to everything that is going on. I love dark, gothic and horrific stories. The bloodier and gross they are the more I love it. If you like these things as well then you are going to love Justine: Into the Blood plus you will also love The Blackstone Vampires as well.
About The Author:
I write all sorts of horror but have a particular fondness for all things Gothic. Justine: Into The Blood Book One - Blood and Passion Series has just been released. I am the author of the acclaimed Blackstone Vampires Series. The Series is composed of four novels, each following upon the previous one. All four full-length novels comprise The Blackstone Vampires Omnibus.
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