All that drives Allie is her loathing for them – the vampires who keep humans for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.

By day, she and her crew scavenge for food.

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city.

Synopsis: What if having a chance to save humanity comes with a grim price? One that you hate and fear the most? To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness. Review by: Chantelle, LCA Intern for Library HQ Kagawa wraps excellent writing and skillful plotting around a well-developed concept and engaging characters, resulting in a fresh and imaginative thrill-ride that deserves a wide audience. Torn between her maddening need for blood and the remnants of her humanity, Allie is a terrific heroine tough, pragmatic, yet sympathetic and readers will be hungry to see where her story goes. Forced to flee the city, Allie plays human and joins a clan that wanders the wilderness searching for a fabled safe haven called Eden. She hates the vampires, but her survival instinct is stronger: when she is attacked and fatally injured, she accepts being Turned by an outlaw vampire to save herself. Seventeen-year-old unregistered human Allie Sekemoto would rather hover on the edge of starvation than submit to the branding, tracking, and monthly blood draws required to receive food rations from the undead overlords. Set in a near future where despotic vampires rule crumbling cities after a devastating plague has swept the country, Kagawa's Blood of Eden series kicks off with a bang. “A fresh and imaginative thrill ride.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review Now Allie must decide what-and who-is worth dying for…again. Hiding among a band of humans, she begins a journey that will have unforeseen consequences…to herself, to the boy she’s falling for who believes she’s human, and to the future of the world. When she hears of a mythical place called Eden that might have a cure for the blood disease that killed off most of civilization, Allie decides to seek it out. Until the night Allie herself dies…a becomes one of the monsters. All that drives Allie is her hatred of vampires, who keep humans as prey. Book 1 of the Blood of Eden trilogy by Julie Kagawa, New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Fey, begins a thrilling dark fantasy series where vampires rule, humans are prey…and one girl will become what she hates most to save all she loves.Īllison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, where the vampires who killed her mother rule and she and her crew of outcasts must hide from the monsters at night.

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