Amanda Hocking was born, bred swears that she will die in Minnesota. Aside from being a proud Minnesotan Hocking is one of the few or rather the earliest authors to really take on the indie publication market. By the time she was 26, Hocking had written 17 books and published them herself online. She writes young adult fantasy books, some of which have made it onto the New York Times' Bestsellers list. Hocking tackles Vampires to Zombies and everything in between. Some of her more famous work include Watersong quarter, Frostfire, The Hollows, Trylle trilogy, Kanin Chronicles, Frostfire and Ice Kissed. My Blood Approves was the first book series she published. This 5-book series garnered her a firm following not only with the young adult section
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Alice Bonham has found what she feels to her core is the love of her life, her soul mate but which of these two brothers? She hurtles headlong into the supernatural world of vampires. Her brother gets bitten and turned and in the second book Milo learns to be a vampire but Alice is left out. Jack holds her at arms length to protect her but she struggles to fit in with her new social circle. Alice has not yet figured how to not love two brothers as she does. In the end Jack, talks her into turning into a vampire so the bond with Peter can be broken and she and him can have a deeper …show more content…
The vampire clubs where vampires hang out to drink the blood of willing human prey were interesting. The way the vampire world still managed to exist within the human without totally obliterating it by finding novel ways to get the much needed blood like the blood bank. The child vampire reminds one of Claudia, in Anne Rice's "Interview with a vampire". The idea of a child who grows up inside but remains a child on the outside is enthralling. At this point, it becomes hard not to draw comparisons with other vampire based books that have come out before, very hard but totally
Alice Bonham has found what she feels to her core is the love of her life, her soul mate but which of these two brothers? She hurtles headlong into the supernatural world of vampires. Her brother gets bitten and turned and in the second book Milo learns to be a vampire but Alice is left out. Jack holds her at arms length to protect her but she struggles to fit in with her new social circle. Alice has not yet figured how to not love two brothers as she does. In the end Jack, talks her into turning into a vampire so the bond with Peter can be broken and she and him can have a deeper …show more content…
The vampire clubs where vampires hang out to drink the blood of willing human prey were interesting. The way the vampire world still managed to exist within the human without totally obliterating it by finding novel ways to get the much needed blood like the blood bank. The child vampire reminds one of Claudia, in Anne Rice's "Interview with a vampire". The idea of a child who grows up inside but remains a child on the outside is enthralling. At this point, it becomes hard not to draw comparisons with other vampire based books that have come out before, very hard but totally