5 Responses to “Blood Song”

• By Harriet Klausner on Jun 28, 2010

  Los Angeles bodyguard Celia Graves protects her wealthy clients from the supernatural. Currently she guards Prince Rezza of Rusland, a small kingdom in between Poland, Ukraine and Czechoslovakia. Natural gas has made the tiny nation strategically significant to the apoplexy of the Russians. They are ambushed by vampires with Celia bitten and anticipating death with her last thought being dying sucks.

  However, she survives the biting assault, but has become an Abomination as she has been partially converted. Celia knows she must understand the limitations of her new powers and not assume anything. However, at the top of her list is execution of the vampire who transformed her or become his unwilling slave. As she learns more about her new nature, Celia realizes that a conspiracy of epic proportions is going on with her being expendable.

  This is a superb political urban fantasy that will have readers believing in vampires, ghouls, demons and alas Abominations. Celia keeps the story line focused while she also lightens the dark tale with her amusing often darker asides. Although kick butt female Noir heroines are flooding the market, fans will appreciate Celia’s grave quest to kill her master before he either finishes the job by sucking her dry or enslaving her.

  Harriet Klausner

  Rating: 5 / 5
• By Julissa Faw on Jun 28, 2010

  Blood Song will go along with Ilona Andrews and Pat Briggs series on my shelf. This is a really great start to an explosive new series by Cathy Clamp and C.T. Adams. I haven’t really liked their previous books but I truly enjoyed Celia Graves in personality and ability. She says and does what she wants and-has to deal with the consequences of her actions and in most cases, her mouth. The plot has so many twists and turns that no one can question its originality. Very good start to a new series.
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By redrevvy on Jun 28, 2010

  I’m not much into urban fantasy, I find it rather dull and boring, generally. However, this book seemed to fit just about right with me. It was otherworldly and still realistic, a nice mesh of things fantasy and realistic in a modern world. I love the details about the demons, vampires, werewolves, and other frightful creatures, how they just give you enough information about them instead of pounding the reader with facts right off the bat (authors bore me when they do this). Instead you find things out as they go. I think all the other reviews have clued one in to what the book is about. I definitely recommend giving it a read! I look forward to the next book in the series.

  PS, love the cover art too. So many ‘photo-manipulations’ are used for cover art nowadays and are often overdone or kind of the same thing over and over (pretty girl in a dress). This cover art is photo-manipulated but very subtle! Kudos to the artist and the Cat Adams duo for choosing Zeibyasis for their cover! Yay!
  Rating: 5 / 5
• By Leeanna Chetsko on Jun 28, 2010

  Blood Song, by Cat Adams

  “Blood Song,” featuring tough bodyguard Celia Graves, is the first in a new urban fantasy/paranormal series. Celia is at first a “vanilla” human – no magical abilities – but quickly becomes an abomination when a bodyguard gig goes horribly wrong.

  Celia has to quickly learn to deal with her new existence as a cross between a vampire (bat) and a human; she has supernatural abilities such as quicker healing, but also weaknesses such as craving blood. If that wasn’t enough, she’s in danger from her sire, the vampire who turned her into an abom, and also under fire from a deadly demon. While Celia’s willing to accept some help from her friends, she’s also immensely stubborn and determined to do all she can on her own, especially when one of her friends supposedly commits suicide. Add in a world full of magic, vampires, werewolves, clairvoyants, militant priests, and an ex boyfriend, and you’ve got quite a mix.

  I didn’t quite like “Blood Song.” The story was good enough, but I never fully identified with or liked Celia. She reminded me of plenty of other urban fantasy female main characters, with the same sort of wit and attitude. Maybe it was the first person narration that bothered me – I’m not sure. Or it could’ve been the large cast of characters; by the end of the book I’d forgotten a few names, and had to look them up to remember who everyone was. Or it could’ve been the plot itself – I thought “Blood Song” dragged on a little too long. I don’t regret reading the book, I just think it could’ve been a little better.

  3/5.
  Rating: 3 / 5
• By Abigail [All Things Urban Fantasy] on Jun 28, 2010

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  Review:
  
  It’s no longer enough to have traditional vampires or classic werewolves in urban fantasy books, we want something new, something innovative when it comes to the supernatural. In Cat Adams (aka C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp) BLOOD SONG we get treated to a host of new (and tweaked familiar) paranormal creatures including bats, nulls, abominations, werewolves, demons, clairvoyants, mages, psychics, and others I can’t giveaway.

  Celia Graves is a vanilla, someone without any magical abilities at all. She’s worked hard to make up for her lack of magical prowess by rigorous physical and weapons training that have helped earn her well deserved reputation as one of the best elite bodyguards. She has a slew of cool spells and gadgets that help her defend against all sorts of paranormal nasties…until she narrowly survives a vampire attack that half turns her. Now she’s an Abomination (dhampir), feared by humans and hunted by vamps.

  As you can imagine, being hunted by blood thirsty vampires translates into lots of action, but to be a truly excellent urban fantasy (which BLOOD SONG is), I need some kind of romance as well. Cue Celia’s mage ex fiancé and a seriously smokin’ hot werewolf. The two of them provided plenty of romantic tension that promises to play out in future books.

  And did I mention the topnotch plotting? Cat Adams doesn’t appear to believe in coincidences, everything that happens in BLOOD SONG has a reason. This provided several very cool `oh, that’s why…’ moments for me while I was reading. Seemingly insignificant details early on combined for some extremely satisfying revelations at the end. It’s always good to read a series written by an author who understands the importance of good plotting. I’m sure there will be even bigger payoffs in the subsequent Blood Singer books.

  Overall, Cat Adams new Blood Singer series, starting with BLOOD SONG, is the latest in a string truly excellent urban fantasy debut’s this summer. A resilient heroine, a supernatural smack down, and not one but two potential romantic leads? I can’t wait to read Siren Song which will be released on September 28, 2010 followed by Demon Song in 2011

  Sexual Content: References to sex. References to homosexuality. A scene of sensuality.
  Rating: 4 / 5

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