Fresh new YA vampire series -- Action!

Rival
Lacy Yager
Aspendawn Books
Dec 2013

A new approach to a young adult vampire story: The focus is on action, and the story engages the reader fairly quickly.  With a great kick-butt female lead (expert in martial arts) and a likeable male lead who is equally compelling, the story sets off quickly and develops the scene for the plot quickly.  Family figures strongly in the equation, and the reader will be pulling for --and empathizing with-- the characters drawn by the authors.

What's different about this book 
A fresh approach to how vampires and humans co-exist (or don't) in Yager's world.  While the conflict in this story shows only the Chasers killing vampires, the series itself involves good and bad within both the human and vampire communities.
      The novella format serves to introduce the reader quickly to the Unholy Alliance context while providing an entertaining short story from that context.  This will be an easy sell to young adult readers who appreciate action and drama, but don't need the angst or extreme language.  There's a clean but convincing romance that tops off this enjoyable, strong plot-driven story.

What I'll do now that I've read the book 
The dilemma for series books often is the Kindle-only novella that adds information about the series. My libraries don't use Kindles, but we'll advertise the availability of this addition when we book talk the titles in the Unholy Alliance series.  As a result of my opportunity to review these titles, we have purchased the print titles in the series and look forward to sharing these with our readers. I predict high demand.

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