Recently she has begun to suffer bouts of a strange illness that she is too afraid to tell anyone of because the symptoms are far from normal for anything she has heard of before and they call her to the North.īlood Song begins with Lilith engaged until her love is killed in a hunting accident, Lilith goes into mourning which is a state not long to be tolerated by pushy Queen Renata.

She is a princess in name but prefers to spend her time practicing archery in the company of her pets Leap the car and Griffin the eagle. Zeraphina is the 16 year old 2nd daughter of Queen Renata, not old enough to marry off and destined not to inherit the kingdom being the 2nd daughter. They share some characteristics with vamps like the blood hunger and alabaster skin but largely they are a totally new construct of Hart’s imagination and I like that!

Lharmellians are quite vampiric in nature but the Harmings – half human half Lharmellian – are something altogether new. A world that, to me, has a bit of a medieval feel to it but is rich with colour and life. The Lharmellians share many characteristics with vampires though they aren’t a total traditional match, which is fine because Hart has created a whole new world for her Lharmell series. Everything about the cover, the blurb and the title call vampires to mind and that wouldn’t be all together wrong. The cover art is absolutely gorgeous, it caught my eye and captured my attention which is always a good start. The moment this book made it onto my pile I wanted to read it, I wanted to start it straight away but sometimes that’s not possible. The debut offering of this young star is a fabulous read and right down my genre! The Australian YA fantasy scene has a new author for the must watch list in the fresh young Rhiannon Hart.

Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart