Book Review: Volik

 

✨ New York Times Bestselling Author S.J. Tilly ✨ Brings us a brand new series where the men are still possessive. The women are still curvy. There's just a bit of a twist... and a bite.

VOLIK - Bonded Souls Book One

Forget what you think you know.
Forget the fairy tales and lore of old.
Vampires are real.
And for the past seventy years, they’ve walked openly among us.
They’re bigger and stronger than humans, with black eyes, horns, and powers that shouldn’t be possible.
Volik is one of these vampires.
Living in the small town of Hemlock Hills, he spends his days locked in his office at Stalden University. Wasting time. Waiting.
Until Nix, the new journalism professor, arrives … and changes everything.
This is the story about the day they met. What happened after. And how their bond started a sequence of events that changed the world.

NIX
It’s my first day as a substitute professor. I’m in a new city, with new coworkers, and all I want to do is keep my head down.
And maybe catch a glimpse of Volik.
I’ve read everything there is to read about vampires. The good and the scary.
But I have all semester to sneak a look, so I focus my attention on the clock. Because in three minutes, I turn thirty.
But when the moment strikes, an invisible force slams into me.
Weight swells inside my chest, and heat roars through my veins.

VOLIK
I pause, feeling a shift in the air, telling me something is about to happen.
Then the clock ticks. And my world tilts.
The power inside me pulses. The building shakes around me. And I grow.
I get bigger. Taller. Stronger. Thicker.
My fangs lengthen. Sharpen. And I smile.
Because the moment I have waited centuries for has finally arrived.
The other half of my soul… She is here.

NIX
Screams echo down the hallway while people flee.
Impossibly heavy footsteps shake the ground.
But I don’t run. I can’t. The pull in my chest won’t allow it.
Then the giant vampire I’ve been daydreaming about ducks through the doorway.
And when he calls me his Mate, I do the opposite of run.
I reach for him.

My Review

Instantly, I could feel the chemistry between Nix and Volik. Just from the first moment when both were standing on either side of the closed door was intense. There were more moments to be had between these two. Each one building on the last. 

Yet, the spark was intense only because they are fated mates. I love a strong FMC and that is exactly what Nix is. Volik has a little aire about him of mystery. Love me a tall, dark, mysterious man or I should say vampire. 

Already I love Hemlock Hills. I got vibes of The Originals and Hemlock Grove. I did not say Vamprie Diaries as I did not watch it but loved The Originals and while Hemlock Grove is more of a werewolf series, but it is dark and kind of how I imagine Hemlock Hills to be. 

I am excited about this change from S.J.'s other books. Loving this dark, pnr side. Gimmie book two!