Mary Abshire is an excellent writer and creates worlds that you will be happy you entered.

Kick back, relax and get your read on.

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Katie pulled up to the house and saw the cross with a body burning on it.

She knew who it was.

He was immortal, yet he was gone.

If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, she might not have believed it.

She grieved, then sought revenge.

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The book starts out with a fire and the heat never lets up.

Kyle is a vampire and Katie is human, yet they had lived happily together for years. Until, they found him.

Kyle had been a part of the Order of the Legacy – the vampire government. Politics and ego for vampires is no different than it is for us humans. The Order had flipped from good to bad and Kyle had been on their hit list.

There are four kinds of vampires:

those that want to rule the world,

those that think of humans as only a food source,

those who are newer vampires and don’t know how to be a vampire

and those that want to live peacefully beside the humans.

I love a kick*** protagonist and Katie fits the bill, a bad*** after my own heart. She gets knocked down, gets up, brushes herself off and does what needs to be done.

Her parents had died when she was 15 and she had been taking care of herself ever since. She was not a girly girl. Her best friend, Jules, called her Rambo.

I love the bar she works at – the Tasmanian Devil. He is one of my favorite creatures and Tasmanian Devil can even help describe Katie. She wasn’t afraid of anything. She was a doer and felt no need to mull things over, like some of us. Action could be her middle name.

Katie had a Black Camaro and a lead foot. I too love fast cars and that new Camaro looks pretty sweeeeet.

She had dined on Kyle’s blood, but had not turned. It gave her special gifts and along with the gifts came the withdrawal.

He had made arrangements with her, if anything ever happened to him. She had two vials of his blood and a name and number.

Riker had made a promise to Kyle that he would protect Katie. All Katie thought about was she only had a few days to get her revenge.

“Protect her. Teach her. She’s the one.”

Jules is Katie’s best friend and I cannot say that emphatically enough. Mary Abshire describes her as a disco loving, roller skating detective. She was persistent and would not quit until she had the answers she was looking for.

I couldn’t help but laugh when Jules told Katie she drove as if she was dodging cars like in Frogger.

The only thing I didn’t like was Katie being so reckless. She would react without thinking about the repercussions of her actions. But as I read on, she is the one coming up with the plan. If she is going to fulfill the prophecy, I’m thinking she is going to smarten up real quick. Just knowing how to fight won’t be enough.

There is tension throughout the book, as I am waiting for the battle to begin.

I received this book in return for an honest and unbiased review. ( )

Immortal Revenge blends vampires into the human world, but on a secretive level. There are four types of them, but physically they are all the same. Their difference revolves in the mentality of how they see humans and their future with humans. Katie, our MC, knew of the existence and dated a vampire for many years. He taught her the ins and outs of the world, and even went as far to train her. The book opens with her boyfriend's death and we follow her internal battle as she fights to make sense of why and her own life.

If you're a fan of action packed UF with little romance then this is the story for you. Friendship and trust are the romantic angles, so no mushy stuff for those who could do without it. Personally, I'm a take it or leave it gal with my fantasy, so the lack of romantic angle doesn't bother me at all because the story was strong enough (and duh her BF just died) without it.

I'll admit I struggled until the half way mark. I put it down a lot. There were a lot of little coincidences, or perhaps an homage, to another vampire series when it came to the world. For those who loved said series, you will enjoy this story if you can push past the coincidences, which for the record I think Ms. Abshire did better.

The characters while likeable felt familiar in their voices and actions. It led to a bit of predictability so I wasn't surprised as the story progressed. For the record, I'm a tough reader to surprise.

Writing style. This is a big one. Beautiful prose without being overly wordy or extraneous use of adverbs. There was a good balance between setting, action, and dialouge. Every word moved us forward without losing us in backstory or world building. ( )

** Review written for an originally posted on my blog, Book Bliss. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased and honest review**

Review: 4 stars

General: I was shocked when this book jumped right in. The writing was hard hitting but mostly I hadn’t realized there was a real paranormal element to the book and was happily surprised as the blurb makes it seem like a side note. The story moved from the first page till the last and I enjoyed how seamlessly things were “different” in the book world but still very much a normal world. The writing itself was flawless. The book had a strong female lead, and an entertaining friend and an alpha male. All the elements for a paranormal romance with a nice twist; she’s hunting vampires and normally in these novels the vampires are the good guys. Well they’re both in here and it was a nice switch from all the others in the genre.

I enjoyed that the romance elements were a little more backseat in this. I felt it added to the nature of the story being first and foremost about the revenge. The details threw me right into the story, my complaint is that the characters pulled me back out. I found little to no connection to them personally. But I felt they were still a good pair together but it made it hard for me to fully stay connected at all points.

Characters: Katie- Katie was what is becoming the textbook “kickass female”. Rough circumstance hardening her over and turning her hard. She had the wit and the snark expected of such a character. However her emotional connection to both males didn’t feel strong enough. To Kyle to illict such revenge and to Riker to have the connection – but I liked that it took time and felt that was believable under the circumstances.

Riker- Riker was a different breed of alpha male in my opinion – he was moody and essentially an ass 90% of the book until he decided he respected Katie. I liked the connection the two shared, as I said it felt very natural and plausible. I enjoyed his gruffness but to an extent felt it was offputting and sexy or not there were moments when I would have walked away from him if I was Katie, but I’m glad she didn’t in the end. ( )

Immortal Revenge (The Legacy #1) by Mary Abshire

Katie Dillinger is heartbroken over the murder of her vampire boyfriend, Kyle. She vows to avenge him by killing the vampires that committed the crime. Before his death, Kyle had her memorize the phone number of an ally who vowed to help Katie if anything should ever happen to him. Katie contacts the vampire, Riker, for help.

Riker vowed to protect Katie confiding that she is named in a prophecy to help save the human race. Not sure if she believes him; she focuses on avenging Kyle and saving her friends.

Katie is a solid heroin with admirable traits. She is determined and strong willed. Not letting others get the best of her, even if they are not human.

Immortal Revenge is well-written and has a good flow. It is full of action and has an interesting story line. It set a strong foundation for a series. I look forward to seeing where Mary Abshire will take us next.

ARC provided in exchange for an honest review. ( )