Review: Crown of Death (Crown of Death Series Book 1) by Keary Taylor

Crown of Death by Keary Taylor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Compelling

I found this book as a freebie and decided to give it a go and I’m glad I did. The author built a strange and compelling tale that didn’t let me go until the final page.

Logan Pierce is 20 years old and working as a mortuary assistant, which is her dream job. She has money worries, she worries about her family and she’s lonely. When she witnesses an attack and sees people with glowing red eyes, she and her family friend Eli are knocked out and taken prisoner.

When she wakes up she finds out that Eli is a family friend of her birth family instead of her adopted one, like she thought. Her captors think she is something special, but they will only know once she is dead. They want to make that happen as soon as possible. Logan negotiates for a month to close down her life and to make her killers get to know who she really is before they take her life.

With this, she steps into a world of royal vampires, filled with beautiful dresses and elaborate entertainment that can turn bloody and violent at the drop of a hat. The vampire beside her every step of the way, Cyrus, is dangerous and powerful and he is holding something back.

This book was really well written. It didn’t actually have a huge amount of complicated plot, but the story was so engaging I couldn’t stop reading. The characters and the way they related to each other comprised the story and the author revealed them well.

I know this book is part of a larger universe, and once I finished the book realised that there were other series based in the same world before this book. This meant that the world-building was probably a bit less full-bodied than I would have liked. The basic facts were laid out, but there were hints about the world and the major players in it that were dropped, which meant nothing to me as a new reader. I find series like this difficult as a reader because on Amazon or Goodreads the series seems to stand alone and you don’t realise you missing information until you are halfway through the book. I wish there were a way for them to show that this is the 1st book of 5 in the 2nd series of 2 (for example) then we’d know to go further back to the beginning and get things in the right order.

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