Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages: 304
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Publication
Date: 9-19-11
Series:
Covenant (#1)
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The Hematoi
descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two
Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well,
not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who
hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.
Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it
scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several
rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them
all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are
forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood
Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long
enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her
duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a
daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.
Review:
I honestly
don’t know why I didn’t read this book sooner; I absolutely adore the Lux
series, so I should have known that I would fall in love with Ms. Armentrout’s
Covenant series as well.
A Hematoi
or pure-blood is the offspring of Greek demigods. The pure-bloods are very powerful, they can
control the four elements: air, earth, fire and water and they can use this
power to work spells and compulsions.
Half-bloods are the offspring of pure-bloods and humans. The half-bloods have the same amount strength
and speed that the pure-bloods have, but they are also blessed with one extra
gift that the pure-bloods don’t have; they can see through the elemental magic
that daimons use.
Since Alex
is a half-blood, she only has two options for her life; she can either train to
become a Sentinel, someone who hunts and kills daimons or she can become a
servant in the home of a pure. Since
scrubbing toilets for the rest of her life doesn’t sound too appealing she
chooses option number one, but there’s one slight problem. Relationships between pures and half-bloods
are forbidden and since she has a major crush on the hot pure-blood Aiden, she
might end up a slave anyway.
Half Blood has everything that I love in a
book: a strong female character, a smoking hot male lead and non stop
action. Jennifer L. Armentrout is an
extremely amazing and talented writer; I can’t wait to read more of her work.
Quotes:
‘I swallowed and fixed a smirk on my
face. “Blah. Blah. You’re going to kill
me. Blah. I know.”
“You better have had a baby, killed
someone, or slept with a pure. Those are
your three options. Anything less is
totally unacceptable.”
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