I received an arc copy of this book in exchange for a voluntary and honest review.

I LOVE vampire books!!
I really enjoyed this one especially the YA aspect of it. I felt like the tension and build up of a slow burn more innocent romance was a really nice change of pace.
Honestly Ansel cracked me up. You could tell he is a really old vampire. And whenever he would try to understand Lena it honestly bordered on cute.

I really like how you watched Lena go through the motions of growing up in a village that worships the Dawn God and thinking vampires are just scary bedtime stories, then she meets one and constantly battles with her beliefs because the more she gets to know Ansel the more she likes him and understands that because they are two different species some things make less sense to him.

I loved this ending! I was honestly unsure of where it was headed for a bit. The build up to it was fantastic and I loved that the final chapter was from Ansels point of view. Especially his thoughts concerning Death.
I think this is a standalone, but regardless you should definitely give it a read!

In regards to making it a 5 star, I think more chapters from Ansels POV would have really helped because the whole time I kept wondering why does he like her so much, what made him decide to try so hard to understand her humanity, etc