The Hybrid

Title: The Hybrid
Series: The Hybrid series #1
Author: Venus Morales
Genre: YA – Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Venus Morales
Publishing date: February 9th, 2015
ISBN: 9781508406471
Purchase Link: Amazon.co.uk

Synopsis: Ari is the daughter of Ares, the God of War. Half goddess and half Phoenician, she is raised by her father in secrecy until her 18th birthday, when he is forced to return to Olympus.
She chooses not follow her father, and decides to venture out into the mortal realm. There, Ari crosses paths with the archangel Julius, who bears a message from a seer. Ari must return to the Bayou to her late mother’s coven to regain her family crown, she is soon fighting for more than just the crown; she is fighting for her life, and the inner darkness that’s consuming her.
With 7 days to prepare for her trials and 7 days to fight for her life, Ari does the one thing she must do to survive; she forges herself into the weapon she was born to be.

My Review:

This book features a really strong heroine, Ari. she is the daughter of war and carry a few bloodthirsty vampire characteristics. She’s an arrogant kick-ass character. Additionally this book feature a vampire queen; Ily, so good to say this is a book that’s steaming with girlpower. Though the characters seems at times a bit too human for their eternal beings.
However girlpower aside, the book got a bit icky with me during the times when the author tried to make her characters be more human. Ily complaining about breaking nails, Hera ordering shoes from Ily, because that is obviously what the wife of Zeus and  a vampire queen spend their time doing. Though this could be a good way to bring in younger readers and make them relate to the characters. These kind of ticks made the book feel more like a teen-fiction while the other content of the book was clearly YA.
The concept of the book felt rather original, even though I enjoyed the premise more than reading the book. Some of the terminology in the book was distracting f.eks.: deamonons which was demons. Of course this is original, but it removed the story from the puseo-reality it is in to something further from or reality.
All in all it was a quick read, and the middle part was by far the best compared to the start and the ending.

AUTHOR BIO:

Who am I, you ask? I am a woman who wears many hats. A mother of 3 wonderful boys is my first and for most priority, and from there it trickles down. I’m a wife, a cook, a house cleaner and a mommy to two dogs and a lazy loveable cat. Then there’s my ulternate life.. The writer she is the kid who refuses to grow up. Stuck in a mind state of a teenager, who still has imaginary friends. The two halfs of me get along great!! As long as I let the writer out and listen to my imaginary friends tell me their story, then there’s no conflict. If I keep her caged up too long… Well… You know what they say, when you keep the beast caged up to long, it gets angry.
The life of a writer is who your born to be, not a job you just take on. It’s who I am.