Silverblood (A Vision of Fangs #3)

Book 2 Recap | （Spoilers Do not read if you haven’t read A Vision of Fangs 2 Nobleblood!）

There’s also a fourth man in the wings, her original mate Lukain Pierken—an underground dhampir leader who thrust her into this bleak life of slavery, redemption, and vengeance—that she unfathomably fell for. But then he “died” trying to kill Skartovius Ashfen.

Well, turns out he’s not dead. He’s been recovering in Olhav under an alias, Overseer Verant, and is overseeing the very same prison where Sephania is kept! What a twist.

It also turns out the “Relic” Sephania told Kleora she’d been searching for all these years—which would allegedly tell her more about her special blood everyone wants—was actually a human woman named Jinneth, who happens to be Seph’s mother, and she just so happens to be held at the base of the tower where Sephania is imprisoned.

Cue a huge escape scene from the prison, a chronicler with a flaming head pushed out a window hundreds of feet in the sky, and a final “farewell” between Sephania and her traitorous mate, Lukain, aka Overseer Verant.

On to book 2, Nobleblood, where we’re learning more about Sephania’s mysterious Loreblood properties that everyone wants a piece of.

Two of those somebodies are Overlord Barnabac Craxon (who happens to be Vallan Stellos’ master), and Overlady Alacine Mortis (who happens to be Lukain’s mother), who are two leaders of the Five Ministries.

Math would deduce there are three more Ministers, but they’re not super important for book 2.

Sephania has many questions for her recovered mother, such as “Who is my father?” and “Where do I get the Loreblood?” But Jinneth doesn’t have many answers. At least no answers that are exciting bombshells.

Alacine Mortis, the evil Spymistress of Olhav, is out to get Sephania.

She’s throwing assassins and scouts aplenty at our girl.

But her best (and worst) weapon is Lukain Pierken himself.

Seph’s former mate-turned-enemy. Throughout book 2, Lukain pops up to warn Sephania of his mother’s wicked plots, but is also trying to ingratiate himself to her.

He wants her forgiveness... but he also can’t fight his mother’s will, which makes him torn. (This is a clue for later.)

Meanwhile, Vallan Stellos is having raunchy meetups with his master, Barnabac Craxon, who is a truly vile rapist and military leader in Olhav, and one of the Ministers. It seems Vallan is inadvertently giving away Seph and the boys’ plans, which isn’t very cool of him. (Another clue for later.)

There are many colorful characters and groups who make returns in book 2, such as the Grimsons (human underground fighters led by Antones, Rirth, and at one point Lukain), the Chained Sisters (led by Seph’s mother’s lover, Iron Sister Keffa), and more.

Per Lord Skartovius’ schemes, they’re trying to take out the Five Ministries one at a time. The hope is that with the vampire leadership of Olhav crumbling, it will bring peace to the humans of Nuhav, as well as the vamps in Olhav. This is highly optimistic thinking.

It starts with Overlady Alacine. But she’s a tough nut to kill because she’s sneaky, powerful, and catches wind of their ploys. She even attacks the Grimsons underground at one point, in the Firehold, which sees the deaths of some people Seph called family. Not great.

Throughout all of book 2, an “ancient vampire” is writing a history of Olhav and Nuhav, starting 150 years ago. Every new “Part” in the book gets an opening chapter from this not-so-mysterious vampire.

Turns out it’s Skartovius Ashfen. And he’s writing this so he can tell Lukain Pierken the truth: they are half-brothers.

Alacine is both their mothers. And Skar only became Lukain’s enemy because Alacine filled Lukain’s head with lies about Skar—namely that Skar killed Lukain’s father in cold blood.

Sephania learns her Loreblood awakens special powers in any vampire who drinks from her, so it’s no wonder everyone wants it.

Skar gets shadow weaving (highly useful), Garroway gets beast-charming (also very useful), and Vallan gets bloodsight (not quite as useful, but he’s also got a bloodrage that makes him a tank).

Vallan manages to get a high-powered meeting between Overlord Barnabac and the other four Ministers.

It is here that Vallan skillfully lays out his ploy and paints Barnabac as a traitor to the Five Ministries.

Since Vall can’t physically kill his master because he’s bonded to him, he does the next best thing: He gets the other Ministers to kill him.

Genius! And everyone thought Vallan was just a hunky brick wall with no brain.

Meanwhile, Lukain gets into a big fight with Skartovius. He gets stabbed in the chest... with the history Skar has been writing pinned to him, saving his life. Lukain reads it, learns about his mother’s treachery, and then kills Alacine just as she’s getting ready to kill Seph’s mom, Jinneth.

And thennnn we learn Skartovius lied, the awful prick, in order to get Lukain on their side. He did kill Lukain’s father in cold blood, because he is the Sireslayer and that’s what he does: he kills dads. Lukain doesn’t know this at the end of book 2, but Sephania has just found out and is pissed.

Which leads to the ending of Nobleblood, where Overlord Aramastun Wyvox, the most powerful of the remaining Three Ministries, comes to their home base at Manor Marquin and unceremoniously snatches it away from Lord Skartovius Ashfen and company.

Sephania and her group are on the run as we start the final book in the trilogy, Silverblood. Enjoy!