Book Review
Title: Vampire Princess
Author: Cameron Drake
Genre: Paranormal/Romance
Rating: ***
Review: The prologue of Vampire Princess was great, we are introduced to Princess Sasha whose family was attacked when she was a child and mostly destroyed but Sasha is special as she is a human/vampire hybrid with extraordinary powers who was rescued and kept hidden by her father’s advisor Caleb who has become her guardian. In order to keep her safe Sasha must act like a normal human teenage which means going to high school. We learn that Sasha is kept hidden by Caleb and Bernard until they had enough followers and Sasha has mastered her powers when they will take back their Kingdom. However, as she has to attend school in the meantime, she has strict rules not to make friends as they have to move around a lot. But when Sasha meets Dylan and Karen, she knows it is going to be difficult as Karen would be an amazing friend and I can already see she is going to fall in love with Dylan.
As we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, Sasha IS taking risks not only with her life but the lives of others. However, when it is revealed that the new rules have captured a psychic who can tell them that Sasha is alive and well but not much more because she is loyal to the King and Sasha, they are done running and decide to step up Sasha’s training so if their enemies come knocking, she is prepared for the war that is to come in order to reclaim her home. Sasha seems to develop quite the life for herself considering she now has a boyfriend, friends and is on the cheer squad at school.
As we approach the halfway mark in the novel, we see that Sasha’s powers are growing at an incredible rate and she even starts developing some rare gifts, but these come with an increased thirst for blood which makes being around Dylan for long periods of time impossible. We also have a love triangle set up as Sasha is dating Dylan and yet it is pointed out that Maxim would be a great potential husband for the Princess. However, the only thing driving Sasha right now is the desire to save her father but according to spies, he may be beyond saving at this point.
As we cross into the second half of the novel, the focus has shifted to Dylan and Sasha’s relationship and to Sasha new powers. Some of her new powers seem relatively harmless while others are so dangerous that they could kill any vampire that even comes close to her. She charges ahead though determined not to tell Dylan anything true about her, she does get him to meet one of her “uncles” to set his mind at ease after meeting Maxim who definitely has a thing for Sasha and may even end up becoming the main love interest later on in the trilogy.
As we approach the ¾ mark in the novel, Sasha tells Caleb and Bernard that Dylan can’t be glamoured and they believe he is descendent from the Fae that lived in the area long ago. At a barbeque, this comes to light when Karen reveals that she is a Fae and that she knows Sasha is a vampire, but they make a deal Karen who say anything about what and who Sasha is if she breaks it off with Dylan and this breaks both their hearts, but it needed to be done.
As we cross into the final section of the novel, this is set six months after the breakup with Sasha getting ready for prom and she is going with Maxim as her date although he is acting more of a bodyguard than a date. We can see that Sasha deeply misses both Karen and Dylan and wants everything to go back to the way it was especially since Dylan hasn’t given up on getting her back even though it has been months. In the end, I found the pace and plot to be really slow until the other vampires turn up on the scene and Sasha’s secret is discovered but it was a quick and interesting paranormal romance and I will be reading books 2 & 3 very soon.
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