Nicala’s life takes a dark turn due to a brutal attack from her abusive boyfriend that almost kills her. Her savior comes in an unexpected form: a...
Nicole Zele
Series
Nicala Series
Nicala never asked to be a vampire—let alone one with a target on her back. Turned after a brutal attack, she’s thrown into a world that fears and hates her kind, where vampires fight for basic rights and survival is earned fang by fang. With her enigmatic Maker, Jin,...
Praise
I really liked the world you built here. While there is “vampire conflict” the characters are not interesting because ‘they are vampires” – they’re interesting because they are relatable. Additionally, the vampirism causes problems, not solves them – so it’s not like a character can just “do the vampire thing” and solve their problem. This crafts a world that leads to fun characters, engaging conflicts, and interesting fight and sex scenes. Well done!
Nicala, A Vampire Story is an intriguing slow-burn novel that painstakingly establishes a world like ours, but one in which vampires are a known quantity in society. Nicala struggles to find her place in the world, navigating the challenges that her new vampire status throws at her, approaching the moral and emotional quandaries from a relatable perspective, bringing humanity to her no longer quite human existence. The novel sets up fascinating future of conflicts that I am excited to read about as additional novels are published.