| Title | : | Forbidden Feast (Eternal Dead, #3) |
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| ISBN | : | 1593094930 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781593094935 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 |
| Publication | : | First published April 30, 2013 |
In the town of Frombleton, government and law enforcement are run by vampires, and humans can’t get justice—particularly after the sun goes down.
Holland Manning has been studying witchcraft at the elite Stoneham Academy. Having reached the rare pinnacle of Witch of the First Order, Holland is the only human who has the power to thwart the vampires’ heinous designs. She alone can save the town’s residents.
While devising a plan to overthrow the vampire regime, Holland is appalled to discover that another threat to humans has found its way to a growing band of ravenous zombies are prowling the streets, devouring the vampire’s food source and challenging their seat of power. And to Holland’s horror, at the helm of the marauding flesh eaters is the recently returned love of her life, Jonas!
No matter who wins, the human race is doomed unless Holland can make the arduous decision to choose victory over love.
Forbidden Feast (Eternal Dead, #3) Reviews
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Forbidden Feast by Joelle Sterling brings to conclusion the Eternal Dead Trilogy, a series full of witches, zombies, vampires, good and evil. Holland Manning, a young and powerful witch,and Jonas, a young man cursed to become a zombie are back, each with a role to play in ending the reign of terror a vampire family has brought down on the small town of Frombleton. When crazed zombies start devouring the vampires food source, Jonas discovers the true meaning of the words told to him by a voodoo priestess and knows that only he can destroy the zombies. Meanwhile, Holland knows she has something that is deadly to the vampires. Can they work together to save the humans of Frombleton? Can their love survive, or was it ever meant to be? What price is too high to pay for victory?
By far, the best of the series, Joelle Sterling has created true and calculating evil in the vampires, there is no doubt as to who the power-crazed villains are. And the zombies? Mindless, smelly, gross. I could see them shambling down the dark streets, (insert shudder).
My favorite character, the one with the most depth, the one I wanted to see overcome his curse, Jonas. He was a victim of circumstance throughout the trilogy, wrong place, wrong time, wrongly cursed, yet he had the most compassion for others, tried the hardest to "do the right thing."
This ARC edition was provided by NetGalley and Atria Books in exchange for my honest review.
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Vampires & Zombies
“Forbidden Feast” by Joelle Sterling is the third and final book in the ‘Eternal Dead’ series. In the previous book, “The Dark Hunger,” the town of Frombleton had been taken over by a government and law enforcement of vampires. It was mandatory for humans to come to offer up their blood at certain times for the feedings for the vampires. There were zombielike beings running around biting people and they soon turned into zombies…that is if they are not eaten alive first.
Holland Manning is back in Frombleton and going back to public school after the awful fiasco that happened at the Stoneham Academy. Rumors are going around school about vampires. With her discovery of being a Witch of the First order, she knows that she has powers that may be able to stop them. The question is how?
Even the mayor is getting strange calls from the citizens of Frombleton. Unfortunately, he just thinks everyone has gone bat sh*t crazy. He is soon about to find out for himself how true these rumors are. The head vampire wants the ownership of one of the town’s historical mansions to live in and run his vampire regime. The tricky part is for the mayor to agree to sign over the mansion.
Jonas has decided to stay in Frombleton, not so much because of his love for Holland but because he feels responsible for the zombielike things he, in essence, spawned by the first person he bit, who in turn bit someone else and so on. Jonas figures that if he can get the cries of the zombielike beings out of his head and try to help them survive without actually eating humans then that’s what he is going to do. Jonas is soon about to realize that there are too many of them and they are quickly multiplying and spreading out to surrounding towns. Will he be able to stop this epidemic before everyone is turned or eaten alive?
“Forbidden Feast” had a lot of bloodshed and action throughout the novel. Some parts like the zombielike beings and the biting reminded me a lot of Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due’s ‘Devil’s Wake’ series, although just a different sort of zombie. Regardless, this does not necessarily impact my rating. Just noting the similarities. The thing that impacted my rating from a 4 instead of a 5 star is because the story just ended a little too smoothly with the vampires and the zombies. Other than that it was a pretty good read.
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I recently decided to read “Forbidden Feast: Book Three of the Eternal Dead Series” by author Joelle Sterling. While I do know that vampires aren't real, I am intrigued by tales of them. This is why I decided to read/review it... Plus, “Forbidden Feast” seemed to have other aspects not usually found in your traditional vampire tales: witches and zombies. I was definitely curious. If a zombie bites, and turns, a vampire; does the vampire then need brains, or blood, or both for its continued survival?
In “Forbidden Feast,” Holland Manning, a main character in this series, has just returned to school at the sleepy little town of Frombleton. Unfortunately, Frombleton is no longer the quaint and quiet town it once was. Vampires now control the city government as well as the police force. All the humans can do is stay inside, and out of sight, once the sun sets and hope for a miracle…
In “Forbidden Feast” it is revealed that Holland is a witch of the highest order. Her purpose in returning is so that she can save what’s left of the town’s human residents. Of course, she is thrown for a massive loop when she discovers that zombies are now the main problem in Frombleton, even more so than the vampires. Can it be true that Jordan, the man Holland is hopelessly in love with, is actually the cause of the zombie apocalypse? Holland can’t believe it, and she decides to accept the challenge of trying to save him too. With all that said, I will leave the rest of the story for the reader to finish.
Overall, “Forbidden Feast” was an interesting tale. It was well-written with no real grammatical or punctuation errors. Unfortunately, I just couldn't seem to get “lost” in the story. “Forbidden Feast” definitely read like a YA book and, more often than not, I felt as if I were reading through a season of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
For the correct audience and age group though, “Forbidden Feast” will be a fun “must-read.” Four stars…
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3.5
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Excelkent! The third installment really brought everything together abd the ending was very satisfying.
