If it hadn’t been for God’s insistence on shoving his prick into my earhole at every opportunity, we’d have been gold as a sailor’s best teeth.

Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, Book 2)

I want to know if it’s going to be a total disappointment like some others that I kicked to the curb! He reluctantly joins a sort of fellowship, bemused to find himself part of a prophecy that relates to a god that Gabriel thinks is a prick. The root of all these first world problems is simple to identify, of course: Three books is a LOT to bring out in a single year. Nothing feels fresh here, as they have all the same powers and tendencies that you would traditionally associate with them. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

Gabriel What's-His-Face has risen up and given challenge to Aelin for the amount of self-confidence affirmations and introductions because I bet that almost HALF this book could have been done away with if all of the "I'm a lion" sentences had been scrapped.

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I will say that they started growing on me, but not until close to the end of this sampler (about 350 pages in! Lastly, before I end this review, allow me to give my praises to the artists behind Empire of the Vampire because they are responsible for improving the novel to a higher level. With this being the setup, in addition to the above-mentioned “present-day” storyline, there are two past timelines that the killer recounts. It's an injustice to many fantasy authors who sometimes struggle to even get a hardcover of their books published by traditional publishers.Jay Kristoff is the NEW YORK TIMES and internationally bestselling author of The Lotus War, The Illuminae Files, and The Nevernight Chronicle. The main protagonist is incredible, and even after one book (granted, it's a huge book) the characters growth you get to see here is wonderful. The cool thing about [the ‘vampire’ concept] is they’re a dozen different things to a dozen different people. But as the book went on i began to not care, I don’t care for the side characters and i was getting bored. I simultaneously cannot believe this was written by a man who is almost 50, and can't imagine this being written by anyone but a middle-aged man with the sense of humor of a teenager.

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Gabriel uses two timelines to fill in the details of his legends and feats, one is his coming-of-age story starting from when he was 15 years of age, and the other is the beginning of the quest for the Holy Grail that begins when he was 32 years old, just 3 years before the present day. Seriously, so few books I've read made me hate and love them as much as I did for Empire of the Vampire. They were the scary things that were trying to eat the good people,” Kristoff explains during a wide-ranging conversation with Den of Geek. He sucks you in off the damn bat (i'm so sorry for my two terrible vampire puns there, but I HAD TO.

UPDATE 9/6/21: I’ve stewed in my thoughts for a while now, and I’ve decided to lower my rating completely. Empire of the Vampire is packed with many stand-out scenes, and knowing that this is only a portion of de Leon's legendary tale, I'll be picking up a copy of the sequel as soon as I can.

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With this being the setup, in addition to the above-mentioned "present-day" storyline, there are two past timelines that the killer recounts. It's the sort of world that you can't stop thinking about, and will leave you desperately hoping we get more of these books as quickly as possible.Not that any book will ever be perfect, especially in the OMGTHISISSHITANDIAMSHIT mind of your average author. It took me almost 400 pages long of Empire of the Vampire to feel like I've gotten to know and like Gabriel more as the main character. This is luckily saved from hurting the overall book for me because of how well everything is written (the vampires included), but I just don't find myself enthusiastic about the things that make vampires unique.