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A review by elliefufu
Eventide: The Dark Ink Chronicles by Elle Jasper
3.0
“We’re vampires, Riley” he says pulling back and smiling, “No need to email when you can cyber chat”- he taps my temples- “here.”
Riley Poe is a world famous tattoo artist living in Savannah, Georgia with her adoptive godparents helping to raise her younger brother. Riley is not your average human, she is actually a human with tendencies after being bitten by two vampire brothers and was very lucky to escape being changed into one herself. Riley may not want to be a vampire but she is in love with one Eli Dupre, whose family made a deal with Riley’s Gullah godparents family hundreds of years ago to be the protectors of Savannah and the family takes their job very seriously.
I had a very hard time while reading this book and I honestly believe it’s because I’ve never read the series before and I was missing so much information that had happened in the previous two books. I really loved Riley and looking back on it I really wished that I would have caught myself up with the series before starting Eventide because it’s a great book I was was just spent the whole thing trying to catch up. This is definitely not a stand alone but I would recommend the series.
Riley is going through a very hard time in Eventide and a lot of the book is flashbacks or dreams. I honestly didn’t know if these were real or what was going on and again I was very confused. All of a sudden I felt the book took a very drastic twist and completely changed it’s direction. It happened so fast I thought I had skipped some chapters and keep going back and trying to figure out what happened. I really liked all the characters but since it’s a little far in the series you are expected to already know them and all the relationships (there are a lot) that are going on.
I found the set up for the next book interesting and I am going to try to give the series another chance. I hope that there is more of a back story with all of the new characters and I’m wondering of Mrs. Jasper isn’t going to take a page out of the Jeaniene Frost handbook and start a side series of friends of Riley and Eli. Again this is a great book but you need to read the series in order or you will as confused as I was and unable to really enjoy the world of Riley Poe.
Riley Poe is a world famous tattoo artist living in Savannah, Georgia with her adoptive godparents helping to raise her younger brother. Riley is not your average human, she is actually a human with tendencies after being bitten by two vampire brothers and was very lucky to escape being changed into one herself. Riley may not want to be a vampire but she is in love with one Eli Dupre, whose family made a deal with Riley’s Gullah godparents family hundreds of years ago to be the protectors of Savannah and the family takes their job very seriously.
I had a very hard time while reading this book and I honestly believe it’s because I’ve never read the series before and I was missing so much information that had happened in the previous two books. I really loved Riley and looking back on it I really wished that I would have caught myself up with the series before starting Eventide because it’s a great book I was was just spent the whole thing trying to catch up. This is definitely not a stand alone but I would recommend the series.
Riley is going through a very hard time in Eventide and a lot of the book is flashbacks or dreams. I honestly didn’t know if these were real or what was going on and again I was very confused. All of a sudden I felt the book took a very drastic twist and completely changed it’s direction. It happened so fast I thought I had skipped some chapters and keep going back and trying to figure out what happened. I really liked all the characters but since it’s a little far in the series you are expected to already know them and all the relationships (there are a lot) that are going on.
I found the set up for the next book interesting and I am going to try to give the series another chance. I hope that there is more of a back story with all of the new characters and I’m wondering of Mrs. Jasper isn’t going to take a page out of the Jeaniene Frost handbook and start a side series of friends of Riley and Eli. Again this is a great book but you need to read the series in order or you will as confused as I was and unable to really enjoy the world of Riley Poe.