"This is a gem of a vampire novel...Sarah Goodwin’s writing is dense, dark and sucks you into a tale of an almost dystopian alternate present." - Beverly, Prism Book Alliancehttp://www.prismbookalliance.com/2014/07/heartless-by-sarah-goodwin-book-review-by-beverley/Bailey lives in a world where vampires are real, and not everyone’s happy about it, least of all him.Because of a law introduced before his birth, Bailey is a donor, the one person from his family who has to live in a vampire’s compound, and provide them with blood. A life sentence in all but name. Bailey was eighteen when he first came to a vampire’s home, leaving his brother and sister behind, and, six years later, he hasn’t seen the outside world since.When Bailey is bought by a rich, incredibly old vampire, and moves to a new house, he finds that not all vampires are the same, and his new boss, Cohen, is not what he’d thought him to be at all.As Bailey begins to feel an attachment growing between him and the vampire he serves, he also becomes aware of the disappearance of donors, and witnesses hideous executions as the terrorist group The Martyred Lamb fights to eradicate vampires, and all humans who sympathise with them.And then there’s the question of what really happened to his family...
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