Blood Hunt

The fifth installment of the Sentinel Wars series shifts focus from the Theronai to Sanguinar when we follow Logan's story.

The Theronai are the warriors who work in woman and man pairs while the Sanguinar are healers and need blood to survive. The kicker is that every race of the Sentinels is dying and they are each here on Earth to protect humans from the Synestryn.

The Sanguinar have been pretty mysterious up until now. We don't know whether to like them or be weary of them. On one hand you have the Theronai that have a very negative opinion of the Sanguinar and on the other hand the author has given us glimpses into their lives and how much they do care.

Logan and his Sanguinar brothers have created a plan to save their kind by putting Project Lullaby into motion. They are pairing heavily blooded(blood that can nourish the Sanguinar)individuals/humans. The Sanguinars are mentally manipulating them to fall in love and have children. Although this can come off as pretty bad it kind of works for the individuals who have been manipulated. They have found their other half and are truly in love and happy. Things have been working just fine for a few years now until Logan runs into Hope who is heavily blooded, could possibly be a Theronai woman and they surely fall in love! This definitely complicates matters because no matter which way Logan approaches it, he can't have Hope.

As I mentioned before Logan is a Sanguinar and he is many things but definitely not a fighter. In this book he is forced to do just that, fight. It is awkward to say the least. He fights because he finds himself having to defend/save Hope from Synestryn who want her bad. This angle ends up working because Logan keeps getting his butt kicked, Hope helps save him a few times and well we know that he is still someone not equipped to fight.

I think this love has been the most intense love story in all the books. I felt all of Logan's anguish. I felt the pull to want to be with someone who has made you experience such intensity, happiness, rightness like never before and the pull to not get involved because there is no way either can be together because of one's own loyalties to the Sanguinar brotherhood and objectives. It was a very sweet and sad story. Honestly, I didn't expect a happy ending for Logan. It just seemed that hopeless.

In the end it worked out and I'm glad that it did because Hope brought Logan hope as well as the other Sanguinars. Hope is not a Theronai and has was born specifically to help Logan. Hope's blood can only make Logan feel all powerful and healthy, not any other Sanguinar. In fact when Tynan tasted the blood he made it sound like it was completely watered down.

Caution: In the beginning of the book there were characters written into the book as if we should have known who they were and I was left a bit confused when I couldn't remember who they were.

As with all the other books we are thrust into other threads that are weaved into the main one so that we can see glimpses of other character's lives. There is the Sybll thread, where she is no longer a child and is not adapting very well to her grown up body. There is Joseph who seems to be really attracted to a Slayer woman. There is Nika, Madoc, Tynan and Tori; Nika is trying to force Tynan into curing Tori when Tori doesn't want to be cured and of course we have Madoc backing up his woman even if she is wrong. BTW: I'm not in total agreement with this method of thinking. We also have the Jackie thread...THIS CHICK IS REALLY JACKED UP! Jackie, is compatible with every Theronai man and doesn't want any of them. She has just been saved from the Synestryn nest after being kept captive for two years and wants to go out and battle them. She is just not mentally ready for it. She is dangerous. Her thread intermingles with Iain whose leaves have completely left his life mark bare and soulless. Iain has been killing those Synestryn that look like humans and here comes Jackie saying he won't allow him to kill anymore...

Nicholas (I love Nicholas), is paired with Logan for a while when Logan calls in to get Theronai back up. Nicholas is dying faster than the others and if he doesn't find a Theronai woman fast he will be sent to the Slayers to be killed, sooner than later. Nicholas has been one of the more agreeable Theronai when it comes to helping feed the Sanguinar. Yet when he comes to help Logan out with Hope he starts to call Logan a blood sucker and just speaks very negatively of him to Hope. Which brings me to the following... Nicholas gets hurt pretty badly in this book and all Logan can think about is getting somewhere safe to heal Nicholas. I just don't understand why the Theronai hate the Sanguinar so much. It is not their fault that they were born to feed off of blood to survive anymore than the Theronai were born to absorb energy and are fated to pair up with a woman who will funnel that energy for the men to survive. Any time we have been given glimpses into the Sanguinar mind, more specifically Logan and Tynan, they just want to help their people survive and help the Theronai survive. Yes there is one Sanguinar traitor among them who is already feeling like crap for turning but all in all they have all been good beings. I love the Theronai but I am loving the Sanguinar too and I'm not digging the animosity, the hatred... I mean Madoc broke Tynan's neck in the last book and Tynan made excuses for Madoc... He forgave him for pete's sake!!! GRRRR!!! Oh and another thing... I think I might be getting a bit tired of the fact that all these women have had a jacked up life or something extremely bad has happened to jack them up mentally and/or emotionally. Can't there be a normal woman in the bunch? I mean there was one but she didn't even get a full novel, she got a novella.

ANYWAY...

All in all, I liked this book. I appreciate the little break from the Theronai and the opportunity to understand the Sanguinar more. I can't wait to read Jackie and Iain's story... yeah, the one who doesn't want to save and the one that doesn't want to be saved. Should be interesting. Pet peeves and all; I'm hooked.