Craving in His Blood by Zoey Draven
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
She’s the fated mate he never wanted…and the human who will bring him to his knees.
As the daughter of a traveling chef, I grew up flitting around different galaxies, immersing myself in fascinating cultures, and rubbing noses with socialites. Coming to Krynn was a new chapter, a permanent place to finally call home.
But when tragedy strikes and I’m suddenly alone, broke, and desperate, I take work at a dyaan. An establishment where the Kylorr—blood-drinking, winged, fearsome aliens with berserker-like rages—come to feed on willing necks to satisfy their fierce hunger.
That’s where I meet him. Kythel of House Kaalium, the ruler of Erzos, with his mesmerizing eyes like fractured ice and a sinful voice that captivates me.
We’re polar opposites. I’m a hopeful optimist who always looks for silver linings. He’s guarded and mistrustful, a wealthy heir to a powerful legacy, who thrives on rigid, unbending control. Yet he craves my blood with a frenzy that maddens him, and he’ll stop at nothing to claim me.
But when the forbidden desire between us becomes too tempting to resist, I fear it will destroy us both…especially when an impossible choice threatens to be our ruin: duty or love?
Craving in His Blood
Great story, terrific audiobook!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📔📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 😄🙂🥰☺️😋
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration
The heroine: Millie – her father was a culinarian, who at one time devoted his life to the preparation of food for others. Though later in his life, he was devoted to Millie and taught her everything he knew. Four months ago, her father died, and Millie is now trying to make enough money to travel to where he is and get his body before it is too late. She is working in Erzos at a restaurant that serves both food and blood straight from the vein. Millie helps out in any way she can as a waitress and sometimes she helps with the cooking. Though she has asked to be a blood giver so she could make more money, but her boss hasn’t yet agreed.
The Hero: Kythel of House Kaalium, the ruler of Erzos – he is a twin brother to Azur. He is the calm brother. He figures war is coming soon and is trying to do what he can to strengthen his home and his people to prepare. Some of his people don’t agree with the changes he is making in the city, but he does what he can. His family is wealthy, and their wealth comes from a drug called Lore, which seems similar to marijuana. He plans to marry the daughter of a man whose wealth is in an alloy that is stronger than steel. That will set him up to be ready for war.
The Story: One night, Kythel and two of his brothers go to eat at the restaurant where Millie works, and he is enchanted by her scent from the start. He later asks the proprietor if Millie could be his personal blood giver. Millie wanted to agree but her boss warned her not to and offered to pay her more instead. Though in the next days, Millie seemed to come across Kythel everywhere she went. She liked to wander in the Stalara forest and was looking for a noble family her father once worked for because he had loved the daughter. Yet nobody seemed to know that family, or they knew but weren’t telling what happened to the family.
The characters were great in this book, I thought Millie was independent and knew what she wanted. I liked the mystery of her looking for that family and how strong she was to try to save money to get and bury her father’s body. Kythel was a good leader, though I didn’t like the fact that he planned to marry that other woman and how he thought Millie was below him because she was a commoner and a human.
I wasn’t too happy when Kythel started using her as a blood slave and realized she was his fated mate, yet he was still staunchly dedicated to the fact that he was going to marry Lyrea for his kingdom. He was basically just using her for blood and sex and though he no longer saw her as below him, he still didn’t see her as good enough to come first in his life.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Marcio Catalano and Veronica Pace. I liked both of these narrators quite a bit. Veronica Pace has a nice voice and is able to show emotion through her voice. Marcio Catalano has a deep voice and is great at doing different voices for different characters.
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