Perfect for fans of Underworld, Blade and Interview with a Vampire. Token Huntress is a lustful and action-packed series that you won’t be able to put down! Awarded ‘Best New Author of 2015’ by AusRomToday and as seen in UK Glamour Magazine. Discover why readers can’t put this dark and lustful series down.The sun’s light dimmed many centuries before; now in the year of 2,341 rampant vampires now … down.
The sun’s light dimmed many centuries before; now in the year of 2,341 rampant vampires now stalk their victims in a half-lit world. Humanity has been overtaken by a new society: one comprised of vampires, the supernatural beings that hunt them, and the remaining humans they fight over.
The laws and rules that once bound our world have long since been lost. Now, the Hunter Guild struggle to stay one step ahead of the Vampire Council.
Esmore, Token Huntress, has exceeded all expectations at only 18 years of age. She is fearless leader to her team, and she is relentless in her pursuit of the enemy. There is only one problem: Esmore is struggling to repress the growing darkness that seduces her from within.
Esmore takes another step into the darkness when she encounters a teasing, tantalizing — utterly unignorable — vampire. The lines between right and wrong are blurred further as Esmore gives into her temptation, and her reality becomes deliciously tainted both with evil and with lust.
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‘Token Huntress’ is book one in Kia Carrington-Russell’s Token Huntress series.
Esmore is a Token Huntress, it’s her job to hunt down Vampires and rescue humans. On her eighteenth birthday she lost her glowing eyes and never received her gift. That has never stopped her from excelling as being the best. When a raid goes horribly wrong and she loses two team members, but there is something else going on.
A new author to me, was recommended this series through goodreads.
I had some trouble getting into this book. I was intrigued with the storyline, the whole end of the world, vampires, post apocalyptic survival was interesting and exciting. But I had trouble relating and liking the FMC.
Esmore was quite annoying, irritating and frustrating to read. I do understand that her whole life she has been told and learnt one way, which is bound to cause trust issues. But the constant on and off, push and pull, back and forth with her inner dialogue was baffling. Esmore is portrayed as this strong, independent, kicka** huntress, that even know she is at a disadvantage with having no gift and being young, she is able to stand ahead of the other hunters in her team with superior strength, senses, stamina and speed.
I was tempted at around the 30% of giving up finishing this book, but I was curious as to what was really going on with Esmore’s “gift & eyes”, plus I wanted to see if the “vampires” are really the bad guys that they are portrayed as being. At around the 60% I contemplated stopping again due to Esmore’s attitude and whiplash moods, but again things were starting to getting interesting in the story so I continued. Now that I have finished there were a few things I did see coming and wasn’t surprised, but there was also one or two big surprises that I had not.
After reading the first chapter for book two ‘Token Vampire’ I’m unsure if I am going to continue this series. But I will give it a try and see how things go. As i said earlier I am fascinated by the concept of the world that has been created in this book.
“Token Huntress” by Kia Carrington-Russell is an interesting blend of vampire lore and dystopia, set in a version of our world, in which vampires come out in the open in the early twentieth century, changing the balance of society in the process. The FMC, Esmore, is a Huntress working for the Hunter Guild, carefully and genetically enhanced to hunt vampires and has – of course – a mysterious origin story. The action takes place in the year 2341 in the city now called San Fransisco, other that a couple of things it seems as the changes to our world has been relatively mild in the last +200 years, which gives the story a rather ‘contemporary dystopia’ feeling. I read this book already in his paperback edition back in 2015, since then the book has undergone a slight editorial work and taken on a new cover, the story remains the same. As vampire stories go, this is a rather good one, centered in the old trope of a vampire vs. hunter covert war, Esmore develops through the story, from a very certain huntress, to someone who begins to ask the reasoning behind the ‘official’ version of feud.
This story takes place in a dystopian future, but is about vampires and hunters, and of course definitely romance between the unlikely pair. This new world setting is explained in fair detail in initial chapters, so do be patient until about halfway into the book if you are in it for the romance. The first chapters seem slow, but are worth it as they slowly create a world within which you can be immersed into. Highly enjoyed the book with its interesting characters. Looking forward to the next story.