*Review* : The Bleeders - Michaela Haze

Book review of The Bleeders by Michaela Haze

The Bleeders

Series : #1 The Bleeders

Released : 30th June 2011

Publisher: Dirty Jeans Publishing 

Format : Kindle
Source : Publishers (Thank you!)

Finished : 3rd 2011

Overall rating

Sophia Taylor knew that her life had gotten pretty surreal when she woke up on her sofa, bleeding from the head, with her boyfriend Henry smoking her cheap cigarettes (which he never hesitated to complain about before). Why was this surreal? 1- Because she was only bleeding because he had effectively pushed her down the stairs. 2- He, being Henry Blaire, her boyfriend, but also the man that she had paid ten thousand pounds to murder the two killers of her sister Melanie. 3- Henry was smoking all of her cigarettes because she was bleeding from the head. 4- Which would have been so bad if Henry wasn't an incubus with an addiction to human blood and killing the scum of the earth to get it. There, Sophia's secret. And all she used to worry about was a double shift at the bar and when her cupboard at home was running low on vodka and peanuts.

 This is a book l started not knowing anything about the author and pretty much nothing about the book but from what the blurb said. The blurb is the sort of blurb l love, one that leaves you guessing and wondering what the book is about. A blurb should tell you as little as possible but still leave you wanting to read the book. This book did that!

The main character, Sophie is a great main character that l straight away felt sorry for. The start of the book is not something l expected but straight away made me want to find out what has happened and how she got into the situation she is in. Sadly the further l got into the book the more l started to be confused by her, her feelings and what had happened. One minute she hated Henry and the next minute she loved him. This kind of made me feel like the author didn’t know whether to make Sophie love or hate him. Because of this l felt everything was the wrong way around, l felt like l knew Sophie better at the beginning and the further it got into the book the more she confused me. The ending was really good and this made me think even better of the book. It definitely showed off Michaela’s writing skills.

My main problem with this book is how at some points it felt very random and certain sentences were unnecessary. It seemed a bit like ‘rambling’ in the nicest way. For example there were times when certain things needed to be explained and while being explained some things were repeated. Sometimes it was repeated but explained in a different way and other times it felt like l was reading a line l had already read. In other places l felt there wasn’t enough explaining and l often didn’t understand what was going on.

Another huge thing with this book which meant the storyline didn’t get to live up the potential was the editing. I believe this is quite a new publisher starting up and maybe this book was a bit rushed to get out there but it has numerous places where there were mistakes which were easy to edit. These mistakes, for me, ruined a lot of the book. I find it impossible to get lost in a book when there are mistakes in a lot of places. Simple things such as spellings, wrong words and mixed up sentences.

I think with a little bit of editing and cutting of certain parts which were a bit unnecessary then this book could easily be up there in my top reads but for this reason l just can’t give it over 4 stars. Michaela is a great author who is very creative and added great twists to this book making it unique amongst the huge amount of paranormal books out of there.

Overall this is a great debut book, Michaela has a lot of potential and l will be looking out for more of her books. It’s sad that the editing let this book down as it really is a great new twist on the paranormal world but l can see that people may not give this a go because of the mistakes. All l can say is this a book you should definitely give a go. It mixes the paranormal world with the world of a girl struggling with depression while adding little ‘spices’ throughout the book. 

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Ratings :

Plot : 4.5/5

Cover : 4.5/5

Page Turner : 4/5

Characters : 4/5

Ending : 4/5

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Series -

#1 - The Bleeders

#2 - Confirming with Publishers

2011 Books Challenges -
2011 Debut Author

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