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Blood Orange

Dracula Duet, Book 1

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Blood Orange

By: Karina Halle
Narrated by: Arthur Russell, Carolyn Eve
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From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes a dark and delicious Dracula retelling filled with secrets and lies, dangerous liaisons, and a forbidden, student-teacher, second chance love story with a twist.

Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another. With Dahlia's appearance disguised under a glamor spell, Valtu has no idea that the woman who has become his new dark obsession is actually the reincarnation of the woman he loved and lost twice before.

And Dahlia doesn't remember that the very man she has been sent to kill is the love of her life.

Will their love come through and transcend time once again? Or are the fated lovers destined to let history repeat itself?

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Karina Halle (P)2024 Tantor Contemporary Fantasy Gothic Horror Paranormal Paranormal & Urban Vampires
Captivating Storyline • Intoxicating Romance • Fantastic Voice Acting • Alive Characters • Unique Vampire Origin
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I am obsessed with this book. I don’t want to give a single thing, I loved this book. Valtu is the vampire who inspired Dracula. Dahlia is a witch, a vampire slayer sent to kill the infamous Dracula. But when she got close enough to seduce him, she got too close and fell in love. Valtu falls just as fast. The spice between the two was fire! The plot of this story is just so beautiful. My heart shattered at the end of this book but hope was found in the epilogue. I immediately listened to the next book, Black Rose, which stitched my heart back together by the end. Highly recommend this story!

Tragically Beautiful

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vampire romance
dark romance
5/5
spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
reincarnation
past lives
Dracula
vampires, witches
glamor
lies
secrets
deaths
true love
Dracula experiences his true love dying 3 times, and one of those times he killed her
great plot and crazy good plot twist
Dracula's love will always find Dracula or in this book he is Valtu

FMC is Dahlia, witch and vampire Slayer
MMC Valtu, vampire, the original Dracula

it has to suck for Valtu to find is true love and every time he loses her, no wonder is is broken 💔

insanely good, omg I love it

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I had to restart this review because what can I even say about this book? I have read a few of Karina Halle's contemporary novels and I quite enjoyed them, so I wasn't sure I would like her fantasy books as I have a track record of being disappointed by the recent books in this genre... ALLL THAT SAID.... Listen, I actually screamed, I actually paused and stared at the wall, I am shaking by my reaction. I love books that deliver what they promise. It's a Dracula adaption, for sure, but it's also so much more.

I also will add that I usually have issues when there's too much smut, but not here. Nope, the smut never took away from the plot but rather added to their tremulous relationship. Which is admittedly a weird thing to add, but I promise you this book is worth it.

I'm shaking, cry, etc...

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pretty well written, excellent performance. predictable at times, but the ending had me dying, I always love a
something tragic, not your typical ending, and the second to last chapter did it for me. I did enjoy the ride, the origin story of vampires was fun and not typical, the storyline was good and kept me interested, the sex was steamy and plentiful without being over done

super

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This was a five out of five for me. I love a good vampire story and this was an amazing twist on the Dracula story! The characters were detailed and the settings were descriptive. The spice was hot! Ay times I did get an Anthony Hopkins vibe from the narrator, lol. Overall, this would be a book that I would highly recommend. On to book 2!!!

Anthony…is that you?

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The story was really good and I do think I would have enjoyed it more if I read it. I struggled with the male narrator.

Good story

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i’m so glad i decided last minute to do this duet through audio!! the narrators made this story 10x more fun 🤩 the cliffy at the end is *chefs kiss* has me sprinting to start book two asap!!

peace love vampires

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That ending was quite an intriguing! I’ve always loved Dracula stories and vampires have always been my fav “monster” so this one was a no brainer. There was a lot of spice and Im not complaining lol. The only thing I didn’t like was the MMCs voice, he doesn’t sound 35yrs old but the again, the character is like hundreds of yrs old so idk. I liked the accent though. There’s this side story that wasn’t fully explained but I’m pretty sure it will come back on the 2nd book which I’m starting right now.

Was not expecting that end!

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what took me so long? this is absolutely fantastic! The tearssss at the ending🥺Rip
and I am not even easy to make cry with a book. im mad, hurt, sad, angry, but i loved it. cant wait for book 2

oh.my.god

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Cliché? Yes. Did I know what I was getting into? Yes. This retelling was so hot. “My Lord” and the cello bow scene omg. Professor Valtu (Dracula) is dripping with forbidden sex appeal! I like that this book had other things going on with the witches involved. I just wish the witch/other supernatural world was expanded upon a little more. I am going to read the second book in hopes that they finally get their happy ending.

Lovers Entwined

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