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A review by wannabekingpin
Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan
2.0
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About the Book: School isn’t exactly a picnic to most, if not all. But it can get worse than bad. Your best friend can start bullying you for the sake of popularity. The same one over whom you question your sexuality. And when that rumor gets out too… Still, it can be worse than that too. An old vampire might appear. And it might just not be a love story. Instead: a hunt, as either you or this friend of yours sure do look like dinner…
My Opinion: I appreciate the reimagining, idea of it was absolutely solid, and worth a book. Just not this one. Execution is atrocious. Teens to young adults, duller than spoons, fill about four fifths of the book with stupid dialogues, awful monologues, clichés, even when they actively acknowledge them, and a lot of pressuring. Pressure to admit to feelings, admit to sexuality, commit to relationship. If you don’t know if something’s okay: try changing character genders. Would this have been fine if it was a straight guy pressuring a gay woman? No, that would’ve been nasty. This is also nasty. I understand there’s an attempt to show “real” in an urban fantasy book, but it reads like satire while it isn’t satire (yes, that is indeed a bad thing).
About the Book: School isn’t exactly a picnic to most, if not all. But it can get worse than bad. Your best friend can start bullying you for the sake of popularity. The same one over whom you question your sexuality. And when that rumor gets out too… Still, it can be worse than that too. An old vampire might appear. And it might just not be a love story. Instead: a hunt, as either you or this friend of yours sure do look like dinner…
My Opinion: I appreciate the reimagining, idea of it was absolutely solid, and worth a book. Just not this one. Execution is atrocious. Teens to young adults, duller than spoons, fill about four fifths of the book with stupid dialogues, awful monologues, clichés, even when they actively acknowledge them, and a lot of pressuring. Pressure to admit to feelings, admit to sexuality, commit to relationship. If you don’t know if something’s okay: try changing character genders. Would this have been fine if it was a straight guy pressuring a gay woman? No, that would’ve been nasty. This is also nasty. I understand there’s an attempt to show “real” in an urban fantasy book, but it reads like satire while it isn’t satire (yes, that is indeed a bad thing).