A Taste for Blood

I love,love,love this series !! And I. Thrilled to a) discovered it and b) to discovered it soo late where there are 18 books to read and catch up w/ it's like a book lovers dream come true to find not only a series to enjoy but such a l o n g one at that. One you enjoy soo much your already a bit sad knowing you ONLY have 11 more to go ;) at least at this present time... But al, that said ENOUGH!!! ENOUGH!!! ENOUGH PLEASE w/the raping and mind raping etc. PLEASE!!!! rape in a book is hard enough to handle but the is it or you s it not rape ? The F'ing w/her mind just to add another man to her life ?!?!? I'm mean WTF?!?!? 1st the kidnaping and mind rape w/Blue and the almost same but much,much worse w/Anubis and now even worse w/Arach ,seriously !!'WTF?!?!? And what's worse there's always some BS way they are are almost forgive, I mean Blue is now her friend,now that they are past him forgiving her for not totally trusting him after all the Hell he put her through, ( shrugs,geez) then,then Anubis takes her time literal Hell how his F'ed up sadist version of tough/punishment "love", ( not sure where he is in relation to her arm) and then even worse Arach is and Fae my race is dying and the ends justify the means ,O look I love BS!!! And some how No matter what fresh ( I didn't NEED not Want soo many details) Hell Vervain or us as readers are dragged long into to these Bastards are soo how forgiven?!?!, WHAT THE HELL ?!?! I love the fun,interesting and ( mostly) wonderful awesome characters ,but I'm getting Sick and I do mean SICK of these sick twisted things happening to her giving us more detail than needed ( since I don't " think" this supposed to be THAT dark or gritty a story ) and then all being either blamed on the victim ( Vervain) or WAY too easily forgiven... V has enough lovers w/Trevor ( who came into her life kinda sideways and kinda took control) ( I mean I adore Trev but he kinda tricked her in love and binding along w/the rest)( the only ones still w/her that were totally straight forward w/out tricks were Kirill ( 1st and foremost) and Azarel ( in my opinion) and Odin to a degree but if you've read up until now you know that's just the tiniest bit complicated) honestly I'd just love seeVervain get the personal life sorted once and for all,finding al way to give them all some sorta "equal" measure instead of what I'd call this " time share" love she's got going on now ,say them all living together... I mean Trevor gets her the most but is the most insecure ,maybe that's because of how he got her, not dis'ing Trev but the way got her was a lesser version than some of the "bad" guys and not at all honorable compared to Odin ( loved her 1st ( as Sabine and sacrificed soo much just to see her again) or Azarel who did the same both waiting 100's of years for the chance to love her again... Or Kirill who sweetly feel in love w/the woman who loved it enough to save him from abuse and mental Hell... Oddly Trevor gets to call the shots when his love started out from a selfish place as well...

While the Godhhunter series can be viewed as a fun romp with great characters, Sumida has managed to sustain a multi-book, complex, over-arching storyline by binding seemingly unrelated plot threads laid in prior novels to constantly surprise this reader every time she manages to pull a myth-twist. I love the stories and am glutting myself on these books...although I dislike the non-consensual sex aspects (also experienced during prior novels with Anubis, and in some respects, Blue, during dream sequences) I hope rape/non-consentual relationships don't figure so predominantly a trend with more stories in the future.

This was a transformation book for Vervain she learned a lot about herself and came out stronger at the end I love the way the author keeps tangling the story over and over and the new scenery and characters were just icing on the cake great book altogether

Highly recommend this rh series.

SPOILER ALERT!I absolutely loved this series when I first started reading it. The beautiful writing, the characters, the story, the amazing twists and turns and the incredible creativity. But all of that has been cancelled out by the rapes. Yes, plural! In book 4 she is held captive and raped repeatedly by Anubis for 17 chapters while being forced to enjoy it, which is in itself a different kind of rape. I literally skipped the entire thing so I wouldn't be sick to my stomach. Against my better judgement I read the next book and was pleasantly rewarded when the story line went back to being entertaining instead of deeply disturbing. So, obviously I bought this book thinking the author had gotten that previous bit of horror out of her system. I was wrong. Vervain is abducted AGAIN and raped repeatedly AGAIN!! I thought this was going to be one of my top 5 favorite series and now I can't even think about it without my stomach turning. What a horrible disappointment especially after developing such high expectations.