Sworn (Book #1 of the Vampire Legends)

Emma Knight

Jan 2011 · Emma Knight

About this ebook

"An amazing new vampire series! Don't miss it!"
--Morgan Rice, #1 Bestselling author of THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS

SWORN (BOOK #1 OF THE VAMPIRE LEGENDS) is Book #1 in the #1 Bestselling series, THE VAMPIRE LEGENDS, which includes six books.

When her dad is transferred, Rachel Wood is uprooted from her home in Pennsylvania and forced to enter a new high school, in 10th grade, in an affluent suburb in Westchester, New York. She finds herself in way over her head, as she struggles to come to grips with meeting new friends, finding a boyfriend, avoiding the cliques of mean girls, and figuring out how to survive in such a hostile new world. She has trouble navigating this new world, where drinking and drugs seem the norm, and where social pressures build on her from every direction.

Everything seems to go wrong for Rachel, until salvation comes in the form of Rob, a football player who takes a liking to her. But just as there romance is about to blossom, she finds herself confused by his actions.

As things reach a low point, Rachel meets a mysterious boy from her school, Benji, a loner who keeps apart from the other kids, and who takes her on a ride on his motorcycle. They have an unforgettable night together in an amusement park—until something goes horribly wrong, and Benji shocks her by saving her life.

Rachel knows that Benji is different from everyone else, and she knows that he is the love of her life. And as their romance deepens, she has to decide if she is willing to give up everything to find out his secret…

Books #2--#6 in the VAMPIRE LEGENDS are now also available!

Ratings and reviews

Briefly: a badly written and edited, unimaginative, uninspired piece of work that doesn't deserve publication. My trawl through free Google Play YA fantasy e-books has thrown up some gems of bad writing, illogical and pedestrian plots, and outright bizarreness, but this has to be one of the worst to date. What's so bad about it? Let me count the ways... -Copious errors that any editor worthy of the name should have found, including typos, missing words, incorrectly capitalized words, and more. -Incredibly plodding writing almost on a "See Spot Run" level, with (among other things) whole paragraphs leadenly listing what brands of clothes/makeup the protagonist is wearing, and endless expository waffle telling the reader what she's thinking instead of showing it. -A plot that has very, very clearly been cribbed straight from Twilight but with more mundane teenage shenanigans - such that it ends just as our heroine is about to find out that the Obligatory Brooding Superhuman Handsome Guy she's proclaimed herself madly in love with after knowing him for about 24 hours is a vampire. (After proclaiming the same thing about another guy then changing her mind a day or two earlier.)

The amount of name droppping in this drove me crazy. I felt that it was over written with her maybeline eye liner and iMac computers, ect. Also, there were a lot of run on sentences. It just seemed like the same highschool vampire story that has been written 1000 times before.

I tried giving this a chance after the free sample, but now two more chapters in, and I just want to scream. The main character is supposedly 15-16, yet acts like an 11 or 12 year old. Especially with how she "falls" for all these guys. She makes spur of the moment decisions, and then next thing you know, she's in love with this random (mysterious) guy. Her mindset just seems so immature, given her age. So far, its just a really bad Twilight spin-off.

About the author

Emma Knight is author of the bestselling vampire series THE VAMPIRE LEGENDS, consisting of five books and counting: SWORN, TAKEN, BITTEN, CHOSEN and AWAKENED. Emma loves to hear from you, so please stay in touch and visit her website: www.emmaknightauthor.com