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dunder_mifflin's review against another edition
4.0
i feel so bad about loving this book because honestly it's not exactly great but !!!!!!
akookieforyou's review against another edition
3.0
*2.75*
Not all that bad, I feel like some people were over exaggerating how bad this book actually was. There's real potential here for a fun and entertaining take on vampires.
However, this first installment drags it's feet in a weird way. We spend so much time dancing around the fact that this is a vampire book, when it's incredibly obvious, I mean the cover literally has a girl with a bite on her neck. There's also too much jumping around in the beginning, with so many characters and individual arcs being introduced. It should have been more gradual and less info-dumpy.
All that being said, the way the vampires are depicted is pretty unique, and I'm a sucker for vamp stories to begin with. I also like the mystery aspect that's included, makes the story a touch more exciting. The romance has potential, but felt rushed here.
Overall an okay read, and my curiosity is just piqued enough that I might continue.
Not all that bad, I feel like some people were over exaggerating how bad this book actually was. There's real potential here for a fun and entertaining take on vampires.
However, this first installment drags it's feet in a weird way. We spend so much time dancing around the fact that this is a vampire book, when it's incredibly obvious, I mean the cover literally has a girl with a bite on her neck. There's also too much jumping around in the beginning, with so many characters and individual arcs being introduced. It should have been more gradual and less info-dumpy.
All that being said, the way the vampires are depicted is pretty unique, and I'm a sucker for vamp stories to begin with. I also like the mystery aspect that's included, makes the story a touch more exciting. The romance has potential, but felt rushed here.
Overall an okay read, and my curiosity is just piqued enough that I might continue.
emrodav's review against another edition
4.0
This series isn't Literature or anything. And even though it's kind of a mess, it's an enjoyable, mindless mess. I need to read something light and dumb right now, and this series is perfect for that.
callistag1's review against another edition
okay, first I'm not really going to give a star rating on this book because I didn't finish it. Usually I make myself finish books, whether I like them or not, but this book was just one that I couldn't get myself into. I only made it to page 77, and I was bored the entire time. It just didn't hook me, so I won't be finishing it.
magikspells's review against another edition
2.0
Why do all books published around this time period seem to include some kind of incest that they attempt to explain away?
There's really nothing riveting or exciting about this book. And the narrator seems to take some grand liberties with American history. It's like a 60 year difference between Roanoke and the Mayflower so that backstory just feels lazy. I mean the specifics about the bluebloods is interesting enough, but there's only one interesting character and it's Oliver and he's not even one of them. Everyone else can take a short walk off a tall building for all I care.
There's really nothing riveting or exciting about this book. And the narrator seems to take some grand liberties with American history. It's like a 60 year difference between Roanoke and the Mayflower so that backstory just feels lazy. I mean the specifics about the bluebloods is interesting enough, but there's only one interesting character and it's Oliver and he's not even one of them. Everyone else can take a short walk off a tall building for all I care.
annettebooksofhopeanddreams's review against another edition
4.0
I've read quite a lot of books by Melissa de La Cruz and yet for some reason I had completed missed this series. Until I was browsing through a website with all recent YA novels published by Disney Hyperion. The new covers for this series look amazing and once I read the word vampire in the summary I was already sold. I ordered the first three books in the series and today it was finally time to read the first one.
I needed a little while to really get into this book. In the first few chapters we're meeting quite a few characters, each with their own challenges, thoughts and issues. In the beginning it was quite hard to tell them all apart and to remember who's who and who's connected to who. However, once the characters became more and more layered and interesting and once the plot grew more and more complex I was sucked in and couldn't put the book down anymore.
This book is everything I had expected it to be. There is this rich school, filled with rich and privileged people and quite soon we discover there's a little more to them. Then we're thrown into this world filled with politics, secrets and danger. Especially the story getting more and more dangerous and the stakes getting higher and higher made this book insanely addictive. I just had to know what would happen next and what was going on.
My favorite part of this book were the characters though. I like to read about rich teenagers. Mostly because they have interesting problems and even more intriguing personalities. In this case those characters clearly had issues too. Some of those characters are quite clearly slightly problematic, others are a little easier to root for. I at least know for sure that I'm really curious what's waiting for them in the next books in this series.
I needed a little while to really get into this book. In the first few chapters we're meeting quite a few characters, each with their own challenges, thoughts and issues. In the beginning it was quite hard to tell them all apart and to remember who's who and who's connected to who. However, once the characters became more and more layered and interesting and once the plot grew more and more complex I was sucked in and couldn't put the book down anymore.
This book is everything I had expected it to be. There is this rich school, filled with rich and privileged people and quite soon we discover there's a little more to them. Then we're thrown into this world filled with politics, secrets and danger. Especially the story getting more and more dangerous and the stakes getting higher and higher made this book insanely addictive. I just had to know what would happen next and what was going on.
My favorite part of this book were the characters though. I like to read about rich teenagers. Mostly because they have interesting problems and even more intriguing personalities. In this case those characters clearly had issues too. Some of those characters are quite clearly slightly problematic, others are a little easier to root for. I at least know for sure that I'm really curious what's waiting for them in the next books in this series.