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A review by bubblewombat
The Afterlife of the Party by Marlene Perez
4.0
This was a ridiculous book, but in a fun way.
It starts with a group of three friends who are heading to a gig. It soon takes a darker turn when the band members turn out to be vampires and kidnap one of the girls to use as their own personal blood bank.
Skyler's two friends will do anything to get her back, and so begins a crazy journey full of (bad) music, stinky vamps and one teenage witch determined to raise hell.
First thing's first, Vaughn. I usually really like friends/best friends to lovers, but boy, Vaughn pushed all the wrong buttons for me. No matter what he did I couldn't start liking him.
The romance was a necessary plot point, especially for the rescue mission so I can't complain, but it just didn't do it for me.
Moving on to Skylar. She spent most of the book feeling dozy so we didn't get to know her that well. Still, she was a lot better than Vaughn.
Tansy was the best of the three, I really liked her, minus the Vaughn shaped flaw in her heart. She proved that she was ready to do whatever it takes to save her best friend and didn't stop there. She really can't see anyone suffer.
I also liked the cool grandma and Armando. I wish we saw more of them both.
Now for the other stuff. It was easy to read yes, and funny too. Although, occasionally the dialogue felt jumpy.
For example, one character would say something or ask a question and the other character would act as if that never happened and would say something else and the original asker seemed to forget they said anything as well. This happened even when only two characters were present in a scene, and there was no indication that they were being ignored on purpose.
And the battle scene at the end could've been written better, it was both anticlimactic and all over the place at the same time.
Honourable mention: I love that Tansy smells like a strawberry milkshake. That's the best smell.
It starts with a group of three friends who are heading to a gig. It soon takes a darker turn when the band members turn out to be vampires and kidnap one of the girls to use as their own personal blood bank.
Skyler's two friends will do anything to get her back, and so begins a crazy journey full of (bad) music, stinky vamps and one teenage witch determined to raise hell.
First thing's first, Vaughn. I usually really like friends/best friends to lovers, but boy, Vaughn pushed all the wrong buttons for me. No matter what he did I couldn't start liking him.
The romance was a necessary plot point, especially for the rescue mission so I can't complain, but it just didn't do it for me.
Moving on to Skylar. She spent most of the book feeling dozy so we didn't get to know her that well. Still, she was a lot better than Vaughn.
Spoiler
I wish I knew exactly how long she knew it was Tansy and Vaughn because that wasn't very clear. Was she protecting them the whole time or just from a certain point onwards?Tansy was the best of the three, I really liked her, minus the Vaughn shaped flaw in her heart. She proved that she was ready to do whatever it takes to save her best friend and didn't stop there. She really can't see anyone suffer.
I also liked the cool grandma and Armando. I wish we saw more of them both.
Now for the other stuff. It was easy to read yes, and funny too. Although, occasionally the dialogue felt jumpy.
For example, one character would say something or ask a question and the other character would act as if that never happened and would say something else and the original asker seemed to forget they said anything as well. This happened even when only two characters were present in a scene, and there was no indication that they were being ignored on purpose.
And the battle scene at the end could've been written better, it was both anticlimactic and all over the place at the same time.
Honourable mention: I love that Tansy smells like a strawberry milkshake. That's the best smell.