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I have finally found a vampire huntress novel I don't relate to down to the hair and love interest. Read the entire series and have recommended it to many friends. It was too good to put down at some points and I lost a lot of sleep reading all 12 books.
It's very rare that I don't know how a book will end or I'm unsure of a character's fate this book have me that mystery. This series made me cry and laugh and I bonded so well with the characters; their pain was my pain. It is a little slow in the beginning but keep going thug won't regret it. (side note to those dissing the "lingo", yes some people really do speak this way)


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Minion Vampire Huntress Legends L A Banks 9780312987015 Books Reviews

I'm really getting into this series, at first in the first book it took awhile to catch my attention to be honest. I can't not finish a book so I read up til about 3/4 thru and finally got hooked. The author has an interesting style of writing and really captivates the culture she's trying to portray. This isn't your average vampire hunter series.
I really, really wanted to like this book but I just could not get into it. Normally it would only take me a couple of days to read a book like this but I struggled with this book for about a week. The main problem was I just didn't understand what was going on. I thought maybe it was just me but after reading some other reviews, it turns out that's not the case. In the first half of the book, not much was happening. It was written as if the reader should know what the characters were talking about but I did not. I actually had to check and make sure I was reading the first book in the series (I was) because I felt like I was jumping in the middle of something. Then in the second half of the book, the very complicated vampire mythology was presented in one long information dump. I couldn't sort it all out.

Several of the reviews indicated that the subsequent books in this series are much better. Honestly, there are so many vampire series out there that I want to read that I don't know if I want to take the time to see if the second book, The Awakening, is better.
Damali Richards is a 20 yr old vampire huntress by night and a famous hip-hop artist by day. Although she is a talented musician, the music business is really just her cover, making it possible for her (and her band) to travel with hidden weaponry while on vampire hunting missions. Her bandmates are Guardians - highly trained vampire killers in their own right, each with a special power that allows them to sense the presence of evil beings. They hunt with Damali, but their real purpose is to protect her.

Damali did not exactly choose her profession. She was discovered by Guardians after her powers started coming to the surface in her early teens. Having no family of her own, she had no problem leaving her sad life behind and starting new with the Guardians. This eclectic group of people have become her adoptive family. They live together in a military style anti-vamp compound, constantly strategizing against their sworn enemy.

Recent events are showing an insurgence of vampire attacks and abductions, all within Damali's circle of professional and personal relationships. The seriousness of the attacks and the proximity to Damali cause her to ask some tough questions of her Guardian family. Eventually, when she gets her answers, she discovers that there is much she doesn't know about her purpose in this world.

In another part of town lives Carlos, the one man Damali has ever thought she could love. Carlos is driven by such a strong desire for money and power that he has become neck deep in illegal dealings to meet his goals. It was the way he makes his money that ultimately drove Damali away from him. But when Carlos's family is attacked by vampires, Carlos and Damali are brought back into each other's lives. They still care deeply for each other, but they also have innumerable secrets from each. Neither knows that Carlos is as much a target as Damali, but for very different reasons.

Overall I thought this was an entertaining vampire world. I liked the fight scenes and hunting parts of the story. I also liked the back story (starting with the epilogue) which explains a little bit of Damali's heritage. The vampires are lethal - there was nothing at all romantic or peaceful about these bloodsuckers at all.

Unfortunately, there were other parts of the story that I didn't like quite as much. The opening chapter spends an awful lot of time describing how their instruments break down into weapons... to the point that it got boring and I almost skipped ahead (not great for this early in a book.) There was also too much down time between the action. Damali's Guardians are very slow in releasing information to her about herself - which was very frustrating to me as a reader. Lastly, the book ends in a really strange place. I think it is meant to be a cliffhanger, but it felt more like the book ended in the middle of a chapter. Not a single storyline was resolved, and neither Damali or the Guardians were in the last chapter at all. It was a very strange ending.

I plan to continue on with this series, so it will be interesting to see how the next book picks up where this one ended so abruptly. The story was interesting enough for me to want to continue, but it was a wobbly start. I hope the next book will be much improved.
L.A Banks wrote this series. After the first five pages of this book I was hooked. Though it is about Vampires it is also about faith and redemption. Sometimes after reading a passage or chapter I felt like I had literally been to church, Multicultural cast of characters and people of all faiths fighting against evil together. About the struggle to stay on the spiritual path. It is about family, loyalty and fighting against the odds. 13 book in all. I read the first four books each four times. I could not believe that one author could know so much. I wept when Banks passed away and I knew that there would be no more.
This started off slowly and confusing. It doesn't explain the term Minion until you're well into the book. I didn't quite understand what the Guardian team was about initially and I certainly didn't initially get the white music band thing and how it got in. Okay, that's it for the negativity. I actually enjoyed this book. As I continued to read on, it became clearer, who the Guardians were and the importance of Damali.
I enjoyed her trying to understand how she got as well.
It was not until Carlos changed, though, that It became really interesting and clearer what everyone's roles are or will become.
I'm now hooked and look forward to reading the rest of the series.
I have finally found a vampire huntress novel I don't relate to down to the hair and love interest. Read the entire series and have recommended it to many friends. It was too good to put down at some points and I lost a lot of sleep reading all 12 books.
It's very rare that I don't know how a book will end or I'm unsure of a character's fate this book have me that mystery. This series made me cry and laugh and I bonded so well with the characters; their pain was my pain. It is a little slow in the beginning but keep going thug won't regret it. (side note to those dissing the "lingo", yes some people really do speak this way)