Well, I'm glad that's over with. 
 Have you ever read a synopsis for a book, thought how amazing it sounded, and just knew you were going to love the story? That's what happened to me here. I love all things witches and horror, so I couldn't wait to read this story. Then I read it. Again, I'm glad that's over with. 
 Our two main characters are Nicholas and Silla (short for Drusilla) and this story is told through both of their perspective, which is always appreciated, because I enjoy seeing things from all sides. Silla's parents died a few months before this story takes place and she's living with her sort-of grandmother Judy and older brother Reese, who always made me hungry for some peanut butter cups. Her parents are buried in a cemetery near her house where she goes to perform blood magic from a spell book someone referred to as The Deacon left on her doorstep. The spell book was actually Robert's, her father, so she decides to believe in its power since he believed in it. At first, Reese thinks the whole thing is ridiculous, but she convinces him to start practicing blood magic with her. As they dive deeper into the spells and become more powerful, the quest is not just to experiment with magic anymore, but to use the magic to find out how exactly their parents were killed. 
 How does Nick have a connection with all of this? Well, he spies on her as she tries her first blood magic spell and she catches him. Of course, he knows more about blood magic than Silla thinks. He, too, lives near the cemetery. His mother did some...things, and she is gone, so he lives with his father and stepmother Lilith. Through the blood magic, he has this connection with Silla so he helps her, Reese, and myself try to figure out what the hell is going on. 
 It's kind of hard to piece together a coherent thought about this book, because there is just so much going on, and I'm still somewhat confused. There are journal entries all throughout the book that don't really provide a lot of informative information, but they are key to the big revelation. The entries are written from the early 1900s scattered around to the late 1900s by a woman named Josephine Darly. She writes of a doctor named Philip Osborn who teaches her everything there is to know about blood magic. They are informative, yet kind of disturbing. Then again, this whole book is pretty disturbing...in a sick way, not an oh-this-is-so-interesting-and-clever way. 
 The title definitely lives up to the story, though, because there is blood everywhere. A little too much blood, if you ask me. It's just sick! I'm a huge animal lover, so there are some scenes I didn't appreciate. Is there another way to get the point across? 
 Speaking of sick, I don't really care for the romance. Nick and Silla are sweet before they dive into the blood magic, but then it consumes them in a way that just makes them gross. They have no problem having their blood all over each other. They give themselves deep cuts and rub their open wounds together. Sorry, blood brothers is so 10 years ago. Nick even sucks Silla's blood, liked the taste of her blood. Of course, this happens during a kissing scene when he bites her lip causing her to bleed, and he just goes to town on the suckage. You seriously have no problem kissing a girl you barely know while her lip is bleeding?! 
 There are some semi-interesting things that happen, things I was not expecting, but the pace is slow in many areas, the story is just plain weird, and that girl's chipped nail polish on the cover is really getting at me.