Ukiyo Blud #1
Author: Mela Ciano
Publisher: Mela Ciano
Pages: 264
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
Blurb:
Archaeology professor by day, backup shooter by night…
On a routine assignment, Ukiyo finds herself dragged into a world of danger and deception when she is forced to pull the trigger and kill a man. Torn between the agency that funds her research and a man she knows nothing about, she has to choose sides in a secret war that dates back hundreds of years.
Guardian, protector, and her own personal demon…
Burislav vowed to watch over her, but hiding his cursed birth right ends up being a secret that could cost Ukiyo her life. When he’s forced out of the shadows after more than twenty years, keeping her safe isn't as easy as he thinks.
Review:
This is a far cry from Mela's previous novel, Break the Chains and I hope it is going to be the first of many novels in this series as Mela has already established such a good character in Ukiyo.
Here life is an adventure, and it is for Ukiyo who finds it hard to trust anyone in her life, especially her enemies. Ukiyo is a team player who also has to think for herself in dire situations that for anyone else would get the better of them. She's a decent character, gutsy and has to be to compete with the men around her, but she's also got compassion in spades. She is a well developed character complete with floors, and all she sees are the temptations around her from big business and criminals.
Burislav acts as Ukiyo's protector in all this, but he wants to hide who he is from her for his own reasons, but does so without coming across as selfish or heartless, which is another of Mela's ways of being able to weave such a great story. Ukiyo is foremost a thriller with some aspect of romance worked into the story.
Ukiyo is new to being a sniper as this is her fourth assignment, but she has all the nerve to push herself to the limit when it comes to her secret job away from being an Archaeology professor. She's not short on humour or daring as at the start of this novel she patiently watches her target, ready to press the trigger, yet it doesn't go as well for Ukiyo as she imagined as she was being shot at too, and someone saves her and patches her up as well as he can. Mela knows how to handle sensitive scenes and ones that require a certain flair for the dramatic as there is magic involved between the cloak and dagger world of mystery and espionage.
As expected, after Ukiyo's ordeal, she starts to doubt herself, her ability to continue doing the side job she planned to do, but she is surprised to be given another assignment, one that takes her to London to find a certain man. I wondered why the London skyline was on the cover, and now I know, but I do love the red eyes the guy has too. Like Break the Chains, this is well written, well paced and deserves to be read anywhere the lights are on.
A big thank you to the author who sent me this book for a honest review.
This is a far cry from Mela's previous novel, Break the Chains and I hope it is going to be the first of many novels in this series as Mela has already established such a good character in Ukiyo.
Here life is an adventure, and it is for Ukiyo who finds it hard to trust anyone in her life, especially her enemies. Ukiyo is a team player who also has to think for herself in dire situations that for anyone else would get the better of them. She's a decent character, gutsy and has to be to compete with the men around her, but she's also got compassion in spades. She is a well developed character complete with floors, and all she sees are the temptations around her from big business and criminals.
Burislav acts as Ukiyo's protector in all this, but he wants to hide who he is from her for his own reasons, but does so without coming across as selfish or heartless, which is another of Mela's ways of being able to weave such a great story. Ukiyo is foremost a thriller with some aspect of romance worked into the story.
Ukiyo is new to being a sniper as this is her fourth assignment, but she has all the nerve to push herself to the limit when it comes to her secret job away from being an Archaeology professor. She's not short on humour or daring as at the start of this novel she patiently watches her target, ready to press the trigger, yet it doesn't go as well for Ukiyo as she imagined as she was being shot at too, and someone saves her and patches her up as well as he can. Mela knows how to handle sensitive scenes and ones that require a certain flair for the dramatic as there is magic involved between the cloak and dagger world of mystery and espionage.
As expected, after Ukiyo's ordeal, she starts to doubt herself, her ability to continue doing the side job she planned to do, but she is surprised to be given another assignment, one that takes her to London to find a certain man. I wondered why the London skyline was on the cover, and now I know, but I do love the red eyes the guy has too. Like Break the Chains, this is well written, well paced and deserves to be read anywhere the lights are on.
A big thank you to the author who sent me this book for a honest review.
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