The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi - pure-bloods - have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals - well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.
Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:
Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.
Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem - staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.
I was sucked into this book from the very start, definitely one I couldnt put down!
Half-Blood is about a girl called Alexandria (Alex) who is taken away from the Covenant 3 years ago by her mother who is a pure blood after she had a confrontation with the Oracle who told her something that scared her and made her go on the run, but she never told Alex what was said. Alex ends up witnessing her mothers death by a daimon and goes on the run to return to the safety of the Covenant. When she is attacked she is rescued by the Sentinels who then take her to the Covenant where she realises things have changed in the 3 years she has been away.
Her Uncle is now Dean and her step-father is minister of the Council, and it is proposed on her return to go live her her step-father and become enslaved to him which is like being sentenced to death, she goes against this and stands her ground insisting on returning to the Covenant and working hard over the summer to get up-to-date on her training, she is then put under the supervision of Aiden, a Sentinel and pure-blood, to train her.
Following Alex's story, her training, finding out the reason why her mother ran from the Covenant and what the future holds for her has me excited to read the next book in the series, Pure.
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