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If you’re a human in a vampire’s world, nothing goes according to plan.
When a map to the mysterious fortune of notorious privateer Miguel Enríquez falls in the lap of Ben and Tenzin, only one of them is jumping at the opportunity. Tenzin can’t wait to search for a secret cache of gold. Ben, on the other hand, couldn’t be less excited.
All Ben knows about Puerto Rico is what he hears on the news and a few lingering memories of his human grandmother. Going back to his roots holds zero appeal for the carefully constructed man he’s become.
In the end, the lure of hidden gold can’t be denied.
Ben and Tenzin head to Puerto Rico where the immortal world is ruled by Los Tres, a trio of powerful vampires commanding the wind, the waves, and the mountains that make up this small island in the Caribbean.
To find Enríquez’s treasure, they’ll have to walk a fine line between flattery and secrecy. To leave the island might mean a bigger fight than either one of them foresaw.
Genre: paranormal
When a map to the mysterious fortune of notorious privateer Miguel Enríquez falls in the lap of Ben and Tenzin, only one of them is jumping at the opportunity. Tenzin can’t wait to search for a secret cache of gold. Ben, on the other hand, couldn’t be less excited.
All Ben knows about Puerto Rico is what he hears on the news and a few lingering memories of his human grandmother. Going back to his roots holds zero appeal for the carefully constructed man he’s become.
In the end, the lure of hidden gold can’t be denied.
Ben and Tenzin head to Puerto Rico where the immortal world is ruled by Los Tres, a trio of powerful vampires commanding the wind, the waves, and the mountains that make up this small island in the Caribbean.
To find Enríquez’s treasure, they’ll have to walk a fine line between flattery and secrecy. To leave the island might mean a bigger fight than either one of them foresaw.
Genre: paranormal
Publication date: February 2019
Mature content: yes
Review: I found Blood Apprentice an entertaining, gripping book. No one knows how to create these alternate realities, where humans and non-humans (in this case, vampires) co-exist, better than Elizabeth Hunter. I'm not usually a fan of vampire books or anything leaning towards
paranormal, but I open an exception for these books - I've been hooked since I read
A Hidden Fire and I never stopped after that.
However, having read nearly all the previous books, I wasn't convinced that the Ben and Tenzin we find in Blood Apprentice are the same Ben and Tenzin I've come to know. They felt different. Maybe they were supposed to feel different - Ben is older and (not always) wiser and Tenzin is - well, unpredictable at best. But between the two of them, they managed to muddle the first part of the book for me. From my perspective, things only got better after Giovanni entered the action - but then, I've always had a soft spot for Giovanni anyway...
This being said, Blood Apprentice is a book I loved and recommend. If the first pages seem a bit strange or slow moving, don't give up. It gets a lot better as you read on. Blood Apprentice is, however, part of the Elemental Legacy series, which in turn is a spin-off of the Elemental Mysteries series, and as the story lines are sequential, it's not a book you should read as a stand alone. You can do it, just for the fun of it, but you will lose a lot of references to past events and secondary characters.
However, having read nearly all the previous books, I wasn't convinced that the Ben and Tenzin we find in Blood Apprentice are the same Ben and Tenzin I've come to know. They felt different. Maybe they were supposed to feel different - Ben is older and (not always) wiser and Tenzin is - well, unpredictable at best. But between the two of them, they managed to muddle the first part of the book for me. From my perspective, things only got better after Giovanni entered the action - but then, I've always had a soft spot for Giovanni anyway...
Oh, and yes, it ends at a sort of cliffhanger, so I'm definitely expecting EH to write the next book in the series...
Happy readings,
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