This book is awful, first of all I would like to go back to the book shop I bought it from and tell them they need to move it from the adult section into the "Major Teen angst/drama section" and then maybe suggest they hide it in the back if they aren't in favour of tearing up their copies and burning them. Secondly I would ask that they remove the big huge sticker on the front cover saying this is the "sexiest romance you'll read this year" OK I know I deserve to be laughed at for buying a book with a sticker like that in the first place but what can I say? I love a good sexy romance novel. So here goes lets get started on this awful disaster. This particular blog may be long.... because I have a lot to say....
Hate is an awful word so I will use despise, I despise this book. There is a total lack of continuity with the characters, their personalities and traits chop and change faster than you are able to get your head around. An example being a 200 year old vampire who seems to struggle with common day teenage angst seems to forget he has had fangs for 200 years and scratches his lip... with his fangs.... are you feeling me here people.... this is not good! Chapter 37 had a familiarity to it I couldn't place until it jumped from the page and smacked me in the face.... It is almost a complete rip off from the "car scene" from the Twilight book by Stephanie Meyer. Suddenly it makes sense, the main character is based on characters from similar books.... The Vampire Academy springs to mind here. This book has no redeeming features for me, there isn't an ounce of reality and at times it can be vulgar and unnecessary. I struggled to get half way through this book and I couldn't finish it, I just couldn't keep reading. The basic storyline is a 17 year old girl out on the town in a tiny black dress loses her friends in the middle of the night and ends up in a deserted Trafalgar Square where she witnesses these "hot scary guys" murder a bunch of scary looking guys... long painful horrible story short, Vampires kid nap girl, hold her hostage and rather than being scared (she is only 17) she has a bad attitude, acts like an idiot, is extremely immature and well is on the nasty side of slutty! Its not even that I just didn't like her character, I couldn't figure out who her character was. Its books like this that make me wonder just how was this book published? Not only are the characters and story lines weak, but the book isn't even well written. Believe me I have read my fair share of Teen Angst books and whereas books like The Vampire Academy may still come under the Teen category they still have strong characters, gripping story lines and are written beautifully. This book fails on every level.
1/10 (It gets a 1 simply because I liked the front cover)
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