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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
I don't know.
I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. I found the narrative (or maybe just the FMC) to be rambling and repetitive. I kept getting confused about the time frame - we're told she was attacked and turned 6 years ago, but this book was all her processing how her life had changed, which made it feel like it happened 6 weeks ago. She was all angst and emo and occasionally wondering about God and if she was evil, and I just... Meh. I ended up skimming swaths of that circular narrative.
She was also kind of pathetic. Her self image is a disaster, and her husband is so toxic, but she just lets him get away with it. All of his bullshit about thinking she's a danger to the kids and whatever... This motherfucker has been absent from their lives for a year because he's having an affair. He skips all the kid stuff and is never home while they are awake. Why doesn't she throw that in his face when he is going on about taking the kids for their safety? She was a fucking federal agent, she knew he was having an affair... Why didn't she DOCUMENT all this and build a case?! She could see this coming. She knew and thought about it through the whole book. So fucking prep for it! Fight back! Your husband is a sleazeball ambulance chaser, for fuck's sake, and he's been having an affair and absent from the kids' lives for at least a year. Meanwhile, you were a federal agent who was injured in the line of duty. It won't be hard to convince any judge that he's a lying bag of shit.
But she just rolled over and took all his shit.
Then you have Kingsley, and his declaration that he's falling in love with her in their, like, second-ever 5 min conversation...my eyes bugged out. It was way out of left field and I didn't believe it. Not even a tiny bit.
It all just made this book painful. So, so painful.
I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. I found the narrative (or maybe just the FMC) to be rambling and repetitive. I kept getting confused about the time frame - we're told she was attacked and turned 6 years ago, but this book was all her processing how her life had changed, which made it feel like it happened 6 weeks ago. She was all angst and emo and occasionally wondering about God and if she was evil, and I just... Meh. I ended up skimming swaths of that circular narrative.
She was also kind of pathetic. Her self image is a disaster, and her husband is so toxic, but she just lets him get away with it. All of his bullshit about thinking she's a danger to the kids and whatever... This motherfucker has been absent from their lives for a year because he's having an affair. He skips all the kid stuff and is never home while they are awake. Why doesn't she throw that in his face when he is going on about taking the kids for their safety? She was a fucking federal agent, she knew he was having an affair... Why didn't she DOCUMENT all this and build a case?! She could see this coming. She knew and thought about it through the whole book. So fucking prep for it! Fight back! Your husband is a sleazeball ambulance chaser, for fuck's sake, and he's been having an affair and absent from the kids' lives for at least a year. Meanwhile, you were a federal agent who was injured in the line of duty. It won't be hard to convince any judge that he's a lying bag of shit.
But she just rolled over and took all his shit.
Then you have Kingsley, and his declaration that he's falling in love with her in their, like, second-ever 5 min conversation...my eyes bugged out. It was way out of left field and I didn't believe it. Not even a tiny bit.
It all just made this book painful. So, so painful.
Here's the thing about these books: there's a fair bit of anti-sex worker and anti-sex industry stuff, mostly in the first 2 books (I'm on like 7 or 8 now). The stuff about fat people is... complicated (attraction/repulsion).
There's very little explicit sexual stuff, although Sam is like, always horny and does sometimes have sex. There are serial killers, missed opportunities to neutralize bad guys, parents who use drugs to the point that their use interferes with their taking care of their child, parents who abusively withhold custody (and later don't pay child support), children in the process of dying in an intensive care unit (that book, around #4, was really hard to read for me as a parent), kidnappings of children, alcoholism, plus the usual vampire who gets more powers and meets more supernatural beings in each book. Sam starts out as more of a hard-boiled, no feelings kind of character, but she gets emotions and stuff as the books go on.
The books are addictive, but I say that after having written the stuff at the top. They're like junk food!
There's very little explicit sexual stuff, although Sam is like, always horny and does sometimes have sex. There are serial killers, missed opportunities to neutralize bad guys, parents who use drugs to the point that their use interferes with their taking care of their child, parents who abusively withhold custody (and later don't pay child support), children in the process of dying in an intensive care unit (that book, around #4, was really hard to read for me as a parent), kidnappings of children, alcoholism, plus the usual vampire who gets more powers and meets more supernatural beings in each book. Sam starts out as more of a hard-boiled, no feelings kind of character, but she gets emotions and stuff as the books go on.
The books are addictive, but I say that after having written the stuff at the top. They're like junk food!
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Pretty standard vampire book. A short, quick read that was enjoyable. The set up of how Moon became a vampire and how she coped with it was an interesting twist as compared to most vampire books I've read. I'll most likely read the others in the series because now I want to know what happens between her and her love interest in the book.
I liked this book, it was okay written, but it disappointed in the end. I expected something more than the ending that I got. Hell, the beginning was more interesting! I was waiting for something to happen and it didn't happen. The resolution wasn't more than 3 damn pages. That was all. Too dry the ending.
But all in all it wasn't a waster of time. I think I'll read the next book in the series only because I'm curious if the author does it better the second one.
But all in all it wasn't a waster of time. I think I'll read the next book in the series only because I'm curious if the author does it better the second one.
A quick and enjoyable read. Have already read the second book in the series and will definitely be reading the rest. Not great literature by any means, but still well worth reading.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fast-paced
Easy, enjoyable read. Intro to the Serie which I will continue.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes