The Greyfriar by Clay Griffith
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I was walking through the library and I just happened to walk by the new fiction shelf and saw this book. I thought it might be interesting because I had just read my first steampunk novel and this one had a steampunk feel to it. Well I absolutely loved it and I also just finished the sequel. The book is set in a new future where vampires are real and 150 years prior, they conquered the human race and drove them southward where vampires could not survive due to the heat. The human civilization thrived and prospered, determined to rebuild their economies of steel and steam. Enter Princess Adele, future empress of Equatoria, one of the most established human empires. On her goodwill trip to the frontier states, before her impending marriage, she is captured by the vampire Prince Cesare who is intent on stopping the impending war between the Vampires and Humans. The war is the humans' attempt to regain the North. Cesare believes that stopping the empire joining marriage of Adele and the famous vampire killer, Senator Clark of the Americas, by kidnapping the princess will allow him to keep his power. Amazingly Adele is rescued by the Greyfriar, an infamous human living in the Vampire occupied North and protecting humans and killing vampires alike. Together the Greyfriar and Adele set off on a nailbiting and gripping adventure to return Adele to her kingdom and to the iron grip of a marriage of duty, much to her dismay- as well as the Greyfriar's. This book was awesome and I eagerly look forward to the third installment as I have already read the Rift Walker.
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