Red- Headed Stepchild review

The novel Red- Headed Stepchild was written by Jaye Wells. The Red- Headed Stepchild was published in 2009. It is the first novel in a supernatural series. This series has a variety of supernatural creature, including vampires, mages, faeries, and demons. The series is called Sabine Kane.

This novel has drama, has supernatural cultures and creatures, and has romance.  A lot of the drama comes from family drama. The main character, Sabine Kane, is half vampire and half mage. She has only ever known her vampire side of her family. The vampire leader is her grandmother and she told Sabine her mage half did not want her.  The family drama is very complex. Sabine has been lied to by her vampire half and they have belittled Sabine her entire life.  At the end of the novel, she goes off to join the mages, who have opened her eyes to the vampires’ lies.

The supernatural creatures, the mages and vampires, are on the edge of war. Peace has always been shaky between the two species and now that war is coming, Sabine has to pick her side. At the start of the novel, she thought she would side with the vampires one hundred percent. As she starts to learn more about her families past, about her parents and about what the vampires are doing, she realizes she is on the wrong side of the coming war. She realizes she wants to try to see what the mages are like and that is at the very end of the novel. I really can not wait to read about Sabine and the mages in the second novel.  I want to read about how Sabine’s relationship is with her other side of the family.

There is romance in the Red- Headed Stepchild, at least the beginnings of romance. The romance has started between the main characters, Sabine and Adam. Adam is a mage and wants to teach Sabine how to control and to be a mage. Adam seems good for Sabine, but the next novel should tell more. He reveals Sabine’s family’s past to her and helps her learn that mages are not evil people. At the end of the novel, Adam is taking her to see her mage family.

I would recommend this novel to those that enjoy drama, a little bit of romance, and the paranormal.  I was very entertained by the Red- Headed Stepchild and can not wait to read the second novel.