For Love and Blood and Fury: Lilith's Legacy, Book 1

Stars: 5 Stars Format: Digital Series: Lilith’s Legacy Book 1 Steam Level: Steamy I read this for the I Heart Sapphic 2025 Reading Challenge for the prompt Spooky Sapphics. Oh. My. God. Go read this book! Immediately! Yes, it’s book one of an incomplete series buts it’s just too good to miss out on. Quick Thoughts: - The world building in this is phenomenal. More you learn about it, the more it all makes logical sense how it’s structured since it is a hidden world - Elena is SUCH an interesting character and has a complexity you don’t see in most vampire characters - Zuri’s talents aren’t something you see often in books and I really enjoyed the magic system here. She’s also as bananas as Elena - Normally a character with Marisol’s traits come off as whiney and too stupid to live but here she is smart, compassionate, and the perfect third for Elena and Zuri - Finding out why Elena and Zuri broke up broke my heart and had me sympathizing for both of them - The sex scenes were delicious and so very hot - I want to know more about the side characters. They were also fun to read about and shinned on page - The poly relationship was both sexy and sweet, and was perfect for all three - No third act break up! - All of them are kick butt in their own specific ways and I loved that - That cliffhanger had me putting the release date for book two in my calendar - I can’t wait to learn more about this world and what’s going on Overall I ADORED this book and found…

J.J. Arias does it again. This book is fangtastic! A very imaginative, steamy, angsty mystery about a powerful vampire Elena, her ex-lover Zuri who’s a witch, and special nurse Marisol. Despite being broken up for a few years, Zuri asks Elena for a favor regarding her coven. When the favor doesn’t give the results that Zuri expected, she goes to confront Elena only to find Elena is missing. Elena had been attacked and was in a human hospital trying to remember who she was and what happened. Marisol was on duty in the ER when Elena is brought in. Drawn to each other, Marisol feels she needs to stay away from Elena. When Zuri finds Elena in the hospital, Marisol is in Elena’s room. Marisol feels drawn to Elena and Zuri. Immediately after meeting, another attack occurs there in the hospital room. In her weakened state, Elena can’t defend herself nor protect Zuri and Marisol. They escape, taking Marisol with them to go into hiding. With the three women being alone together, feelings develop along with insecurities. They not only try and deal with their feelings but try to figure out who wants Elena dead and why. Once you start reading you won’t want to stop.

One of my favorite authors. I enjoyed the book and I feel a little stress for the next one with the way this ended. I didn’t like that Elena didn’t feed enough, I kept waiting for her to drink from Marisol. I don’t know but that was my biggest disappointment and I felt Zuri was mean to Elena and it made me a little sad. But still a good book, not sure I’ve read something like this from J.J but loved it like all I’ve read from her