After Reading The Greyfriar by Clay and Susan Griffith

 It was rated 4+ at goodreads.com.  I was curious so I considered it in my TBR list.  I almost did not read this. Steampunk and vampires? The story was set in an alternate world with so many things going on that I don't know what genre this book would be classified. It has fantasy, steampunk, adventure and romance to name a few. It's a grim world where vampires rule in the north and humans in the south. Vampires had eradicated half of the world in what has become to be known as "The Great Killing" and has become man's terrifying nightmare.  In the north, the remaining humans had become their flock of food and under their beck and call.  It's horrific, I wouldn't want to live in that world.  The imminent war began when the prince of the vampires kidnapped the Princess Adele, crown heir to the Equatorian Empire, the largest empire in the human world. But the prince was rescued by the Greyfriar, a masked legendary hero of the humans who protects those handful humn settlements in the north.
I don't want to spoil it to those who haven't read the book, but this I will say that even in the darkest times of a person's life, there's always something good that comes out of it.
An astounding read and I wish I can read it all again as if it was the first time.
Here is a brief recap from Goodreads:


Vampire predators run wild in this exciting steampunk adventure, the first in an alternate history trilogy that is already attracting attention. In 1870, monsters rise up and conquer the northern lands, As great cities are swallowed up by carnage and disease, landowners and other elite flee south to escape their blood-thirsty wrath. One hundred fifty years later, the great divide still exists; fangs on one side of the border, worried defenders on the other. This fragile equilibrium is threatened, then crumbles after a single young princess becomes almost hopelessly lost in the hostile territory. At first, she has only one defender: a mysterious Greyfriar who roams freely in dangerous vampire regions. 


definitely a ***** 5 stars