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ameserole's review against another edition
4.0
Wow. I finished this forever ago and I'm just now getting to the review part. Yikes!
Rest in Pieces was such a hard book to put down. Seriously, it was. In it, you will meet Barbie. She doesn't really care if you like her or not because she has so much on her mind and her shoulders. So when it comes to high school drama? Eh. Vampires? Well, shit.. she has to kill them bloodsuckers. Especially the ones who killed her family in front of her eyes.
Talk about traumatizing.
Now it's safe to say that I got all kinds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibes. Heck, right after the first couple of chapters I just wanted to turn on the show and watch. Luckily, I kept with the book because I wanted to see what was going to happen next. Just like with Buffy, Barbie sort of has this weird love triangle happening. I'm here for it all which is weird because I have love triangles with a passion.
I'm very intrigued with how this one ended too. With so many questions roaming around in my brain, I definitely want to dive into the sequel some time today or this weekend. I just need to know what is going to happen next and if she will get her revenge. That's it. Okay, there's totally more that I want to know and to happen but I can try to be patient.
Maybe.
Rest in Pieces was such a hard book to put down. Seriously, it was. In it, you will meet Barbie. She doesn't really care if you like her or not because she has so much on her mind and her shoulders. So when it comes to high school drama? Eh. Vampires? Well, shit.. she has to kill them bloodsuckers. Especially the ones who killed her family in front of her eyes.
Talk about traumatizing.
Now it's safe to say that I got all kinds of Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibes. Heck, right after the first couple of chapters I just wanted to turn on the show and watch. Luckily, I kept with the book because I wanted to see what was going to happen next. Just like with Buffy, Barbie sort of has this weird love triangle happening. I'm here for it all which is weird because I have love triangles with a passion.
I'm very intrigued with how this one ended too. With so many questions roaming around in my brain, I definitely want to dive into the sequel some time today or this weekend. I just need to know what is going to happen next and if she will get her revenge. That's it. Okay, there's totally more that I want to know and to happen but I can try to be patient.
Maybe.
chandlerainsley's review against another edition
3.0
eh. the writing was surprisingly decent in a technical sense, but i wasn't particularly impressed with the characters. it wasn't that they were bad they just didn't have much in the way of personality. likely will not continue on with this series though it does have me interested in picking up other books that look like this on KU (the covers like this have turned me off previously).
jessa_sage1996's review against another edition
3.0
I’m struggling to think of what to say. I liked the book fine but nothing really jumped out at me in regards to impacting me. The book is about a seventeen year old who lost her entire family and is put in the system before godparents are found and she’s sent to live with them. Her life goes from surviving the system to a preppy private school where she is surrounded by affluence. She struggles to balance who she knows she is (a vampire hunter) and who she is pretending to be (a high school student). From there, vampire conspiracy theories are brought to light, a murderer is killing townies, and her foster brother hates her. She meets a rival at the school and a friend who’s all about that gossip.
All in all, it wasn’t a bad book. I was entertained enough to probably continue with the series. At the very least, I want to know if she is in the middle of a love triangle or a reverse harem. It’s nice that the female character is the badass in the book. She’s young and independent and I dig that. Her expressing her own vulnerability in the future would be nice but she definitely didn’t need to do it in book one. Torin is also an interesting character.
It would be nice if, in the future, any of the other vampires expressed an attitude besides “We’re all pawns and humans are all cattle”. It’s hard for me to believe there isn’t an opposing faction of vamps to Arrius. Maybe there is symbolism in the fact that hunters are good and vampires are evil but even Supernatural had concessions to the “all vampires are bad” diatribe and the idea that hunters were the good of the world was broken up by the existence of manipulated and dirty hunters. So, I don’t really believe Lucinda Dark would just have all vamps be bad, all hunters good, and the humans to represent the gray. I want to see the complexity come into play so like I said, I’ll probably continue on with the series.
All in all, it wasn’t a bad book. I was entertained enough to probably continue with the series. At the very least, I want to know if she is in the middle of a love triangle or a reverse harem. It’s nice that the female character is the badass in the book. She’s young and independent and I dig that. Her expressing her own vulnerability in the future would be nice but she definitely didn’t need to do it in book one. Torin is also an interesting character.
It would be nice if, in the future, any of the other vampires expressed an attitude besides “We’re all pawns and humans are all cattle”. It’s hard for me to believe there isn’t an opposing faction of vamps to Arrius. Maybe there is symbolism in the fact that hunters are good and vampires are evil but even Supernatural had concessions to the “all vampires are bad” diatribe and the idea that hunters were the good of the world was broken up by the existence of manipulated and dirty hunters. So, I don’t really believe Lucinda Dark would just have all vamps be bad, all hunters good, and the humans to represent the gray. I want to see the complexity come into play so like I said, I’ll probably continue on with the series.
lynn_the_greyhound_mum's review
3.0
Overall I liked the plot but Barbie’s character was very abrasive. Unnecessarily so surely you can be a fighter without constantly behaving like a stroppy child.
beckiebookworm1974's review
4.0
An intriguing start to the series, our heroine Barbie’s whole world changes when the stories her parents told her regarding the existence of vampires turn out to be actual reality and after her father, mother and brother are all brutally slaughtered by these dark creatures she’s out for some revenge and some definite answers on the whys of it all.
After a stint in a group home she’s finally fostered by rich godparents she wasn’t actually aware she had but this new life also plunges her smack bang into the thick of it all as she soon discovers the answers she is seeking are now finally within her grasp.
We have two potential love interests here and I’m hoping this one turns out to be a ménage which I’m kinda thinking it will especially considering Barbie's current predicament and that it was also multiple POV.
So Maverick is initially hostile suspicious of Barbie's hidden intentions whilst Torin is a dark horse and definitely much more than he first appears. these two also used to be besties until a couple of years prior. Now with Barbie's arrival secrets are finally uncovered and Maverick learns the truth about Torin and what he actually is.
This was multiple POV Barbie Torin and Maverick. It was an easy well written read with plenty of action and a ton of chemistry and I’m now excited to discover just where we go from here and I will definitely be continuing on with this series.
After a stint in a group home she’s finally fostered by rich godparents she wasn’t actually aware she had but this new life also plunges her smack bang into the thick of it all as she soon discovers the answers she is seeking are now finally within her grasp.
We have two potential love interests here and I’m hoping this one turns out to be a ménage which I’m kinda thinking it will especially considering Barbie's current predicament and that it was also multiple POV.
So Maverick is initially hostile suspicious of Barbie's hidden intentions whilst Torin is a dark horse and definitely much more than he first appears. these two also used to be besties until a couple of years prior. Now with Barbie's arrival secrets are finally uncovered and Maverick learns the truth about Torin and what he actually is.
This was multiple POV Barbie Torin and Maverick. It was an easy well written read with plenty of action and a ton of chemistry and I’m now excited to discover just where we go from here and I will definitely be continuing on with this series.
bookish_babe's review
5.0
Wickedly hilarious
I love Barbie. She’s pragmatic, full of sass, and everything I want in a heroine. There’s a bit of a love triangle. Two sexy hero’s. And as I turned each page the book got better and better. A must read Urban Fantasy novel. I mean, who wouldn’t want to read about Barbie the Vampire Slayer?!
I love Barbie. She’s pragmatic, full of sass, and everything I want in a heroine. There’s a bit of a love triangle. Two sexy hero’s. And as I turned each page the book got better and better. A must read Urban Fantasy novel. I mean, who wouldn’t want to read about Barbie the Vampire Slayer?!
flower_power's review
5.0
Really good
I nearly didn't pick this one up. But I'm glad I did. It turned out really really good. I'm to the next
I nearly didn't pick this one up. But I'm glad I did. It turned out really really good. I'm to the next
see_sadie_read's review
3.0
This book starts with a Joss Whedon quote and then continued it’s Buffy cos-play from there. I say that with a little bit of snark, but no real venom. I didn’t dislike the book. But I do think the Buffy comparisons are unavoidable (and probably purposeful). Unfortunately, Barbie is no Buffy.
I didn’t come around to enjoying this book until well past the half-way mark. But by the end I was ready to continue on to book two. I found Barbie needlessly prickly for the first half of the book, and most of the other characters over-wrought representations of their character archetype. In fact, that last point carried through. The bitchy rich girls stayed stereo-typically bitchy. The sex kittens stayed stereotypical sex kittens. The dude-bro jocks stayed assholes. The kind and loving parents stayed kind and loving. There wasn’t really much depth to any of them and cliches and stereotypes were the words of the day, apparently.
Past halfway, the book finally drags at least one wheel out of the familiar Whedon-esque “I’m a sarcastic badass with a bruised heart” to allow the plot to progress. And at this point I enjoyed my time with the book.
I do have to say that it feels like it’s all going to take a very Anita Blake turn, though. This book has some sexual tension, but only one real (fairly mild) sex scene. But if I had to guess the series’ direction, I’d guess it will be soft porn before too long—given the ending. Which is fine. Some people might take issue with the heroine being 17 and the book containing on page sex. But my only true issue with it was that the idea of 17-18 year old boys who look at sex with a goal of pleasing their partner and know how to do it was almost more fantasy than the vampires. Just sayin’. Well, I suppose it also really muddles the genre classification. I don’t know if this is meant to be YA, NA, adult UF/PNF. I don’t sense that the author knows either. It felt more like she’d just forgotten the age of her characters at some point. Honestly, this genre confusion starts even at the cover.
All in all, I don’t think I’d buy book two. But I’d read it if I could get it at the library or as a freebie, etc.
I didn’t come around to enjoying this book until well past the half-way mark. But by the end I was ready to continue on to book two. I found Barbie needlessly prickly for the first half of the book, and most of the other characters over-wrought representations of their character archetype. In fact, that last point carried through. The bitchy rich girls stayed stereo-typically bitchy. The sex kittens stayed stereotypical sex kittens. The dude-bro jocks stayed assholes. The kind and loving parents stayed kind and loving. There wasn’t really much depth to any of them and cliches and stereotypes were the words of the day, apparently.
Past halfway, the book finally drags at least one wheel out of the familiar Whedon-esque “I’m a sarcastic badass with a bruised heart” to allow the plot to progress. And at this point I enjoyed my time with the book.
I do have to say that it feels like it’s all going to take a very Anita Blake turn, though. This book has some sexual tension, but only one real (fairly mild) sex scene. But if I had to guess the series’ direction, I’d guess it will be soft porn before too long—given the ending. Which is fine. Some people might take issue with the heroine being 17 and the book containing on page sex. But my only true issue with it was that the idea of 17-18 year old boys who look at sex with a goal of pleasing their partner and know how to do it was almost more fantasy than the vampires. Just sayin’. Well, I suppose it also really muddles the genre classification. I don’t know if this is meant to be YA, NA, adult UF/PNF. I don’t sense that the author knows either. It felt more like she’d just forgotten the age of her characters at some point. Honestly, this genre confusion starts even at the cover.
All in all, I don’t think I’d buy book two. But I’d read it if I could get it at the library or as a freebie, etc.
sadielewski's review
4.0
This was such a fun read. Barbie reminds me of Rose from Vampire Academy in all the right ways. I saw a review here that complained Barbie was mean and bitchy, and while that’s probably accurate it’s also exactly how I like my MCs. All hail sassy bitches.
mvenhuizen19's review
3.0
3.5⭐️meh. It was good for what it was and I enjoyed the story. Won’t continue series, though.