Review: Healer's magic by Teagan Kearney

I was offered a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and I began to read it in a bus trip to the capital of the province where I live: Jaen. In case you don't know, Jaen is the number one world producer of olive oil and a beautiful region full of history and nature.

Place: Castle of Jaen, Spain

Date: May, 2017

Title: Healer's magic

Author: Teagan Kearney

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Blurb: A powerful healer. A treacherous enemy. A deadly conflict.
Tatya's world slides into chaos when a demon consumed with the desire to control her power attacks those she loves. She refuses the local master vampire’s offer of aid, as he's just turned her best friend into one of the undead. She needs allies, but who can she trust in the battle to destroy this dangerous enemy? 

Format: Ebook 

The story

The book tells us the story of a young woman with a special gift who's not very fond of vampires due to an incident in the past. She doesn't go after them to hunt them, either. The two species just live together in some kind of society where vampires are accepted as another race.

To this point, this may not sound original, but I don't think it has to be. Whoever reads a book about vampires knows there will be clichés in it.

The characters

In my opinion, this is the strong part of the novel. Tatya is a young woman with powers whose friend has been turned into a vampire. Suddenly she's lost a loved one to a night creature so she is resentful. Tatya is represented as a very witty and sarcastic girl, especially in her interactions with Vanse, the master vampire, and that makes her a very captivating character. I loved her comebacks!

Vanse is the other part of this story, an experienced vampire, and a very particular one since he doesn't kill to feed himself. He seems to have some kind of fondness towards humans. The relationship between these two characters is the most engaging aspect of the book: on one hand, Tatya hates him, but his behaviour is so approppriate and thoughtful that she faces a big dilemma. In the middle of all this, we have the antagonist: a vampire called Angelus who has been following Tatya through distance and time, and won't stop until she's his.
They still need some developing, but that may happen in the following books of the series...

The style

I must say I did enjoy very much the author's writing style, full of beautiful imagery and methaphors and with strokes of details that inspired my imagination throughout the story. Also, there were very few mistakes regarding spelling and grammar, something that can be fixed with another read over.

My opinion

I normally don't read stories that revolve mostly around the romance between a man and a woman, even if they are vampires, but this novel adds some more to it than just a love story. The fact that the main character is not so prone to fall for the vampire is a breeze of fresh air after the whole Twilight craziness. The weak point of the story, I think, is that there is a part towards the middle of the book where the action becomes slow and makes you lose interest. Another aspect I'd like to mention is the chapters about Vanse's past lives where the author shows off her knowledge about certain rituals and cultures.