Wake Me When The Sun Goes Down Review

Title: Wake Me When The Sun Goes Down (Forged Bloodlines Book 1)

Author: Lisa Olsen

Published By: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: December 21, 2011

Pages: 264

Genres: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance.

Audience: 17+ due to language

Source: Bought

Stars: 5 out of 5

Free on Amazon at the time of this review.

~You know you’ve had one hell of a night when you wake up on a cold slab inside a morgue. Anja Evans doesn’t realize what’s going on, until she tries to eat her roommate. Anja is a vampire and has no recollection on how she became one. Breeding among vampire is strictly controlled, so it’s no surprise that Bishop shows up at Anja’s door requesting to see her license and registration. Anja’s unlicensed status automatically makes her an enemy of The Order. Anja struggles balancing her old college life with her new undead one. Anja is deicaded to tracking down the Viking vampire who turned her and gave her the strength of a vampire several centuries older than her.~

This book is magnificent!!! I fell in love with it before I even finished the first chapter. The story catches your attention right off the bat and prevents you from being able to put the book down. Lisa Olsen did an incredible job at developing her characters for this book. The main character Anja (An-ya), is completely relatable. She is like the typical girl next door that almost every girl can connect with one way or another. I love how she isn’t this character who has a crazy workout route and spars with swords on her time off. She is a typical bookworm, she prefers reading books in comfy pjs instead of going out every night drinking and partying. I connected a lot with this character because we are almost 100% the same, I even have glasses like she used to have before she turned. I also love how she slowly started growing a stronger backbone after she started embracing her vampirism.

Now, time for me to stop going off about how much I love Anja. This book has a lot of amazing qualities to it that makes it so magnificent. The writing was well done and there were little to no grammatical errors. It was not sloppy by any means and the story progress at the perfect rate, it wasn’t too fast or too slow. The book also provided us with a heroine who remained upbeat no matter what was happening. I loved this, I also loved how Lisa Olsen gifted us with a heroine who wasn’t whiny. Nothing worse than a whiny heroine. Lastly, the book actually showed us Anja and Bishop’s relationship grow and develop. They didn’t fall madly in love with each other within a couple seconds of meeting each other and were automatically a couple. I prefer watching a couple grow, I’m not a big fan of the whole love at first sight thing.

I love Lisa Olsen’s take on vampires and how the book is more realistic than most. I love it so much because all of the characters are relatable and can be found in real-life. I truly can’t wait to get my hands on the other books to this series. I recommend this book for all of my fellow bookworms out there who want a main kick ass female character to fall in love with. Go get this book! Trust me, you will not be disappointed.