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The Blood That Bonds (The II AM Trilogy Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Christopher Buecheler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 709 ratings
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Two is trapped: hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, uncaring, longing only for the next fix.

That’s when Theroen arrives, beckoning to his Ferrari and grinning his inscrutable grin. He is handsome. Confident. Eager to help lift her out of the life that’s grinding her down.

The only problem? Theroen is a vampire.

His blood can cure her addiction, grant her powers she has never had, change her forever into something greater than she was. But when he sinks his teeth into her neck, Theroen also thrusts Two into a world of danger, violence, madness and despair. The powerful, twisted elder Abraham will use her arrival to shatter the uneasy peace that exists in his mansion, bringing an end to the dark game he has been playing for centuries.
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    The II AM Trilogy
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    325 pages
  3. Language
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    July 15, 2009
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Christopher Buecheler is a professional web designer and developer, a published author, an award-winning amateur mixologist, a brewer of beer, a player of the guitar and drums, and an NBA enthusiast. He lives a semi-nomadic existence with his wonderful French wife and their two cats, Carbomb and Baron Salvatore H. Lynx II. Currently they reside in Providence, RI.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002R5B0WI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services, Inc.; 3rd edition (July 15, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 15, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1294 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 709 ratings

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Christopher Buecheler is a professional web developer, a published author, an award-winning amateur mixologist, a budding illustrator, a player of the guitar and drums, and a video game and NBA enthusiast. He lives a semi-nomadic existence with his wonderful wife Charlotte and their two cats, Carbomb and Baron Salvatore H. Lynx II. Currently they reside in Providence, RI.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Erin Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating and Unique
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2011
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I've been a fan of paranormal (i.e. vampire, werewolf, fae, etc) books for awhile now and this book takes a new and refreshing twist on the more "traditional" themes. The author gives the characters so much depth that you really do sympathize with them and become enthralled in their story. The story line is excellent and well developed, if there had been slightly more development of the various environments it would have made it seem like a movie playing in your head. As it was, it was very easy for my imagination to insert the little details. The feminist in me also loves that the female characters in this book are strong, smart, competent women, not needing a man to bring them their salvation. Great read! Stayed up all night and immediately got on the web to look up the sequel. Hope it's coming soon!
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Ars Arcanum
4.0 out of 5 stars Twilight for Adults
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2011
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*An Ars Arcanum Review*

In the midst of Twilight-copiers out there, it is very refreshing to finally read a book that does not turn the vampire genre into an overly dumbed-down romanticized mess. Don't get me wrong, The Blood That Bonds is very much a romance novel with a good blend of thriller elements. However what you have here is a far more serious, complex story than the silly little Bella/Edward romance that tweens everywhere adore. This is Twilight for adults.

Ironically, at it's core, The Blood That Bonds is actually rather similar to Twilight. Theroen (punny name, as you'll soon see upon reading) vampire living for hundreds of years somehow falls in love with Two, a 19 year old prostitute enslaved by heroin (okay that's not like Twilight) and complications arise. What makes this better than Twilight is that the author clearly has a much better grasp of how to write a compelling romance novel than Meyer and it shows in the writing. This is particularly true in the characters. In the Twilight series, characters come and go, attached at the hip to the Bella/Edward romance. Most characters only have as much importance as the main romance allows, and are otherwise pretty shallow outside of some backstory that may or may not actually be relevant. In The Blood That Bonds, every character, even the minor ones, evoke very strong emotions. You will love some, despise others, you will hold active interest in everyone's fate, not just that of Two/Theroen. Don't worry though, there is still plenty enough romance to go around, but there is also more, so much more. It is cruelly realistic (ironic word choice I know) in its romantic storytelling.

Although some obvious tropes are employed, the story remain fresh enough to keep you turning the pages until the very end. Buecheler does a great job of creating a deep vampire society with all sorts of varied clans that is only touched upon in this novel. That is part of the beauty of it though, as you can tell throughout the story that Buecheler wrote this book intending it to be the first in a series. He wrote it with clear awareness of what he wants to reveal now and save until later, as opposed to developing it as he continues the series. Although a degree of resolution is reached by the end of the novel, there are plenty enough questions that will leave you eager to continue reading.

Like I said, this novel is Twilight for adults. As such, I cannot easily recommend this one to the tweenage fangirl crowd. Foul-language is abound in this novel, including plenty of uses of the F-word. Prostitution and addictive drug-use serves as a backstory for a few characters, including the main heroine (pun intended) and there are explicit references to all of this happening to a 12-year old girl as well. Suffice to say the beginning of this novel is not a pretty sight to behold in terms of rough times, consider yourself warned. That aside, I highly recommend this novel for young adults and older folk who thought Twilight was pretty good but want something more serious, and likewise for the Twilight-haters that want to read a good vampire romance.
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R. P. Crockett
5.0 out of 5 stars A different twist on a favored Genre
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2011
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I do not consider myself a reviewer of books. But, reading is my passion simply for the sake of the story. This 'story' caught my attention and held it tightly for three days.

I'm a Kindle user, and with the 'sample' feature available, it is easy and painless for anyone to try a few chapters, and trust me, 20 pages in, you will upgrade from a sample to the entire book.

Granted, this is not a "masterpiece" or a "Top Ten Best Seller" - but simply a great read, and one that I will reread again in the future. I also will read the next book in the series as soon as it comes out, or as soon as I finish this review (haven't checked yet).

I enjoyed the writing style used, and the plot twists were both unexpected, and attention-grabbing.

I guess the best compliment I can give is this is the first book I have chosen to write a review about, ever~!

My thanks to Christopher Buecheler for entertaining me~!
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Kelly S.
3.0 out of 5 stars Wishing for more...
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2011
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The beginning of this book reminded me of the movie Kiss of the Dragon (with Jet Li and Bridget Fonda). Though it started out as a familiar story, I have to say that it drew me in. I liked Two right off the bat and hated Darren immediately. This is big for me. I have to have a develop "relationship" with the characters right away and Buecheler did that well in this book.

After the first two chapters or so, I was just waiting for something to happen. There was a lot of character and relationship development in the first half of the book (which is great) but not much else going on. Once Theroen entered the picture the action seemed to stop. Sure, there was Two's transition into a vampire and the feeding that comes along with it, but I feel like there could have been more action to draw the reader further into the story. With character and relationship development and nothing else, it was hard to see what the whole plot of the story was aside from "handsome vampire rescues girl".

The second half (well, really about 2/3 into it) finally got into the "guts" of the story, the plot development, the action and (let's face it) the whole point of the book. With so much leading up to it, I was ready for some serious conflict, a really great fight scene or something along those lines. I feel like that never happened. Don't get me wrong, there were some great parts and some good ideas but I feel like the story fell flat. There was so much potential for it to be really great but it never quite made it. The best part was when Two returned to seek revenge (I'm not going to call that a spoiler because as soon as you start the book you know that's coming at some point in the book), but even that could have been better. I just feel like it left something to be desired.

Favorite quote:
"Sex is sex. Love is love. The first is a raw biological process, the latter is something more."

It wasn't a bad book by any means. It was a dark, gritty and dramatic story. Once I finished, my first thought was that it was 4 star worthy. But then I started writing my review and as I was rehashing the book in my head I started realizing that I wished there was more to the story. There were some really great ideas (the progression into vampirism, the evil elder, the different effects that vampirism has on different people, etc.) but I just think they were poorly executed. It had the potential to be a 5 star book with a little more action and if there was a little more effort and detail put into the key scenes. I felt like by the time the story was fully developed the author rushed to finish the book.

This is the first book in a trilogy. I did like it and I will be downloading the next book, Blood Hunt, when it's released.
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S Franco
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2024
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This book is a great read, a modern take on stories of old.

I recommend getting the whole trilogy because you won't want to put it down.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting story and some good accounts of what it's like to be a vampire!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2013
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Interesting story and some good accounts of what it's like to be a vampire!

Haven't read all of it, but I can see that there is potential for some interesting conclusions. The characters are believable and the main vampire is scary, which is always good!

Set in modern times, but the theme of vampires is ageless, so can be adapted here.

I look forward to finishing it.

Recommended.

Finished the book and it was a great read. It took me a little more time to get into the characters and plot after my first review, but this didn't take long.
One of the other reviewers gave this 3/5 and said it lacked depth and while this is true, there are 2 more in the trilogy and it would be great if the depth could be achieved there. While I did crave for some more background into the main characters, the author is great at capturing the present and he writing style is very addictive and I found myself up late reading till I feel asleep and then when it all finished I wanted to read the other two.
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AyJay
5.0 out of 5 stars A solid start to what promises to be a great trilogy...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2012
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I downloaded this for my kindle last year as it was free and then forgot about it, I suppose the fact that it currently still free to download twelve months later [and the appealing cover] lead me to believe that it wouldn't be up to much.

I'm happy to report that I was wrong.

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The story focuses on Two; a young, drug addicted prostitute. One night she goes of with a client, only to be bitten and taken away to a secluded mansion.

Vampire Theroen senses the goodness hidden in Two and wants to cure her addiction by transforming her into a vampire, thus keeping her with him.

But the lovebirds can't run off into the sunset too easily. Theroen's powerful vampiric father Abraham has three 'children' and Thereon is the only one that completed the transition to vampire without Abraham's strong powers causing nasty side effects. This means that although Abraham hates Thereon, he isn't about to let his only 'normal' child leave him...

***

I'm not sure how to describe THE BLOOD THAT BONDS; we have drama, horror, romance and action mixed into one. I laughed at parts and cried more then once too, the plot has a bit of everything.

And allow me to repeat that it's free to own - what excuse is there for not giving this a go? I'll be treating myself to book 2  ] ASAP.
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TheAl
3.0 out of 5 stars eh....The Blood That Bonds (Kindle)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2011
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This was an interesting twist to the vampire family history and how to make a vampire, which I did find was a good part of the book. But I thought some of the characters just annoying.

Sorry, but her name is Two(?), just didn't really get that, and she was just jumping from being a silly girl to a bit of a hard-ass, so was weird.

Sadly in the end, I just kept reading and finished it, because I had already read 70% and just wanted to finish this.

Not something I would read again, but would say that maybe a younger reader would enjoy this. There was a little love story and some sort of 'sex' scene, so maybe not too young, but I've deleted this from my Kindle and would have been a little more annoyed had I paid for it.

I kinda half and half with if I would get something else by this author. I am in between giving it a two or three star review, but there isn't a two and half, so have just gone for a three, cos I know that this would appeal to others who like more of a "Twilight thing, but trying to be darker" book.
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Lorac Sirrah
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2013
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Honesty is the best policy right?
I downloaded The Blood That Bonds because it was free - and It would do when I ran out of other stuff, It's been lurking in the depths of my kindle for weeks .. Well the enevitable happend and I did run out of reading material - with no funds available to buy, I rather reluctantly started to read.....WOW !! IT WAS LIKE A KICK TO THE STOMACH.
This is one of the best reads I've EVER had, so much so, I dowloaded the other 2 books to the trilogy as soon as funds were there. I dont normally do vampire books but this is so different. Its sad, and gritty. There's humour, more action than you could ever hope for and a love story that works through the entire trilogy (not that awful mushy rubbish though - there's no Mills & Boon here!)
2 weeks later all 3 books are finished and I'm left buzzing and wanting more. I have found a place in my heart for Two Ashley Majors and her cohorts and miss them already.
Christopher Buecheler I congratulate and thank you. You have made a convert of me!
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