She has reached the point of her transformation where she must cement her place as a member of the pack run by one of the most powerful demons in the area, Raven. She resents being turned from human to demon, and all that means, including the loss of her memories. Del is a teenage girl, Ash is a teenage boy, coming from opposing factions, impossible to be together but have that attraction anyway, parents never going to approve.īut the author manages, as all the good ones do, to put her own spin on the common tropes and to invest the characters with enough of their own personalities to make it work and work well.ĭel is a half-demon, Ash an Angel Blood, both feel constricted by the rules that govern their society and Del particularly wants out.
In some ways the story is reminiscent of the set up for a YA novel, the main cast are all young, supplemented with a few ‘adult’ characters – I use the inverted commas, because adult does not begin to do them justice, some of them are centuries old. So I settled down to read Heart Blade expecting it to be something totally different to what it was, for some reason, but this was not a bad thing, because I probably enjoyed it more because of it. I am not one for reading the blurb on the back, feeling that it sometimes can give away something of the story I am about to read. There is the old adage about not judging a book by the cover, and this is one of those novels where I did just that.
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