I know I havn't been regular lately and it is totally because of the holidays. With all the last minute shit we Trinbagonians are famous for. So today I'm not going to incessantly babble because it is just about that time to gush about the book of the week!
YAYYYYY.....
So today's book is FIRE BAPTIZED by Kenya Wright.
Since the 1970s humans have forced supernaturals to live in caged cities. Silver brands embedded in their foreheads identify them by species: a full moon for Vampires, a crescent moon for Shifters, a pair of wings for Fairies, and the list goes on, for each supernatural species has been tagged and categorized by humans.
Lanore Vesta is marked with a silver X, the brand of Mixbreeds, second-class citizens shunned by society. She stays to herself, revealing her ability to create fire only during emergencies. All she wants to do is graduate college and stop having to steal to survive. But when she stumbles upon a murder in progress, she catches the attention of a supernatural killer. Now all she wants is to stop finding dead bodies in her apartment.
Enlisting help from her Were-cheetah ex-boyfriend MeShack and a new mysterious friend named Zulu, she is steered through the habitat’s raunchy nightlife. But their presence sometimes proves to be more burden than help, as they fight for her attention.
While the corpses pile up, and the scent of blood fills the air, Lanore is left wondering: Will she find the psycho or die trying?
This book was so vividly written and so original I literally almost thew out my computer because I couldn't illegally download the second book. Damn you Google and your copyrights.
But I recommend it to you readers who enjoy a funny, sarcastic, truly sensational female lead whose reaction to being threatened and almost dying is to assess the situation, get yourself out of it and then
allow yourself relative freakout time before your address your relationship problems.
Lanore had me chanting "Kill her" over and over in my mind when she was confronted by the crazy bitch who wanted her dead because in the mind of every serial killer to her she was doing the right thing for the greater of some retarded good or another.
Best part of the book for me really is when she did kill her and Lanore roasted her up real good and ate her just to survive the wait while her boy toys searched for her.
When you read the book you will eventually realize that what I just described wasn't actually as disturbing as how I wrote it.
As you can see this book is an interracial read and can somewhat be also classified as a young adult novel. To me I think other Young Adult writers should take a few pages from this book and use it to better their awful stories, I mean how much longer are you going to be able to brainwash the young ones into thinking brooding guys are 'hot' (70% of the time they have at some point taken a life, so not cool), when I guys tells you to stay out of his business it is alright to to think it is code for 'I am so into you so it's okay for you to appear everytime something bad goes down and you get caught in the middle of it because I LIKE YOU SO I WILL SAVE YOU'.
That right there is like the main ingredients for a young adult novel these days, brainless characters with really dysfunctional first time meetings that always seems to lead to some weird confessionals.
Anyway, Fire Baptized is truly a good read, and also can be an amazing Christmas Gift for any open minded reader out there. Made my day, so I hope you all enjoy this Christmas and keep in mind that turkey isn't your friend because when you indulge him too much he usually invites stretch marks.
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