{Review} Burn Falls by Kimberly Knight

Burn Falls by Kimberly Knight
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

GENRE: Paranormal Romance
THEME: Vampires / Mystery

BLURB:

After Draven Delano fled his coven, he vowed he’d never take an innocent human’s life again. To survive on his own, he became a doctor, allowing himself easy access to blood bags and a means of survival without harming a soul. But an immortal can never stay in one place for too long. And he can never fall in love. When he moves to the sleepy town of Burn Falls, he thinks he’s found the perfect place to temporarily settle.

Until he meets the one woman who could change everything.

Calla O’Bannion believed monsters lived only in fairy tales. The night her father was attacked and left to die, Calla knew that monsters were real. When the inevitable happens, Calla makes the decision to move home to Burn Falls and take over the family’s distillery. As fate would have it, she begins a relationship with the only one who can protect her from the thing she fears the most.

Until she finds out what Draven’s been hiding.

Evil has chased Draven for eighty-six years. Soon, he’ll be forced to face those demons and break his vow—a decision that could save both him and Calla. Or it could kill them both.

REVIEW:

I’ve been out of the paranormal romance game for a while, only sneaking back in when a new Patricia Briggs book comes out. I’ve missed it so much and was excited to try a new author to me, Kimberly Knight with her twist on the vampire mythology. I love the idea of mafia vampires, the insert of al copone was a nice addition. This story goes in nice detail about our hero and how he came to be, how he got involved with the wrong people and now he’s trying to keep hidden so they don’t find him again. The author jumps back into the past to connect all the dots until the big twist, which I figured out but it was still a cool way to connect the two leads.

Burn Falls follows Calla who is home for the holidays with her family when tragedy hits. Calla is comforted by a doctor who knows exactly what happened but is trying to keep innocent humans from being involved with dangerous vampire, since well… he is one of them. Draven is a doctor in Burn Falls and is on call when Calla’s family is dealing with the injury of a family member. He is drawn to Calla and even more so when he realizes she can’t be compelled. But as he starts to connect the dots it brings Calla’s life in more danger and both of them closer.

Draven is a man or vampire on the run, never staying in any town long enough to realize he’s not ageing. Also because he doesn’t want to be found by his maker, a dangerous vampire with ties to the mafia. He was sweet, lost, and really needed to find some happiness. I felt for the guy his past was awful, the love of his life killed and his family. When he got free he was always looking over his shoulders. With Calla coming into his life, he wants to keep her there especially when she finds out his secrets.

Calla is dealt with the hard blow of losing a family member, someone who held the family together. But she is stuck on why and how it happened, it wasn’t an accident. Calla works with Draven and his friend another vampire to track down why her family was targeting and if it has any connection to Draven. She actually takes the existence of vampire a little too well for my liking as I feel most would be in freak out mode for some time. But I still like her attitude and determination to get the truth.

Overall this was a great introduction to Knight and I always love seeing someone else take of vampires. There is a lot of mystery and twist, as well as humor with some secondary characters. Be prepared for a lot of emotion ups and downs with reading Dravens past and Calla’s family. I look forward to trying more books from knight, her writing and characters were well developed and even though some areas felt a bit slow, I was keep wanting to know what happened.

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