A review by kelic
Blood and Sand by Elizabeth Hunter

2.0

I listened to the audio version, which was a treat. If one is committed to reading this schlock, receive it in the best manner you can, and that is with a fab East Coast accented narrator. She plays all the parts and her pronunciation of "vampire" was worth the nearly 12 hours of listening. Every time she said vampire, I said it too, but like her. She did say "feral" weird and her Southern accent was terrible but otherwise she was great. She managed to make Baojia the least attractive vampire ever written though. But I'm not sure if that was her narration or the writing. When Baojia would say "I want to bite you" or something similar, I inevitably rolled my eyes and thought "ewww." It's possibly the least hot vampire story I've ever read.
Anyway, I won't go into the many ways the story itself sucked, thought I'd stick with the positives.
How on earth these are so popular is beyond me. But I can't knock the author for making money if people are willing to part with it. My advice is to save it for something better.
1 star for content and 1 star for the narrator.