They take her back to the covenant and the tale that unfolds is fast-paced, filled with forbidden love, epic battles, and a startling revelation. Thankfully swoon-worthy, Aiden *faints* and some of the sentinels show up and rescue her.

She manages to kill two daimons before she is overwhelmed when two of the daimons gang up on her. Alexandria’s mother who was pure was killed and Alex has been making her way to the safety of Covenant. A half-blood cannot be changed and are often sent into battle.

These are horrible vampire-like creatures who can suck the life from a pure and change them into a daemon. She is held up in an abandoned building somewhere in Georgia and is being pursued by daemons. The tale begins with our protagonist sixteen-year-old, half-blood, Alexandria. While it isn’t necessary to read the prequel, I did find it helpful when beginning this novel. It has paranormal elements, a snarky protagonist, and complex world-building that captured my attention. The Covenant series is an urban fantasy steeped in mythology. I picked up these books after reading some fantastic reviews by fellow bloggers. In March, I brought you a review of Daimon (0.5) and you can read my thoughts on the prequel here.

Half-Blood is the first novel in the Covenant Series by Jennifer L. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn’t her biggest problem-staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1: Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.Unfortunately, she’s crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers.

Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout