by Julie Kagawa
Three young people stand on the gallows, condemned to die. Their crimes include robbery, trespassing and resisting arrest. They were called unregistered because they had decided against giving their blood to vampires in exchange for meal tickets. They were forced to steal to survive.
Allison barely glanced over her shoulder when she hear the trapdoors release. Their mistake was getting caught. You have to do what you need to do survive but you leave yourself and out and don't get caught. Allison lives in a gutted out old school with 3 other young unregistereds. Lucas, Stick and Rat were far from perfect but they were the only family she had.
Allison and her family are out scavenging for food one day when they run into trouble and are caught out after dark. They soon have a run in with the "rabids". Her friends are killed and she has been bitten. As she lays on the sidewalk dying suddenly out of nowhere a vampire shows up and offers her 2 choices.
"I can end the pain," "I can offer you release from the mortal coil, and I promise that you will not spend eternity as one of them."
"Or?" I whispered. He sighed.
"Or...I can make you one of us. I can drain you to the point of death and give you my blood, so that when you die you will rise again... as an immortal..A vampire."
She chooses to live.
She gives up her former life and becomes a vampire. Kannin teaches her how to live her new life as a vampire. She asks him what will happen if she refuses to drink blood? He tells her she will go mad and become like the rabids. Eventually she will have to strike off on her own and leave the walls of the city.
Not long after striking off on her own she comes across a group of humans headed for a so called city of Eden. Thinking of them mainly as food she soon becomes their protector.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's different from a lot of the vampire books out that have vampires as just being misunderstood. I look forward to reading the next book in the series called "The Eternity Cure".
Rating 4/5
ISBN# 978-0373-21051-0
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