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A review by koops333
Kingdom of Ashes by Elena May
2.0
This was a tough one. I liked the premise- vampires have taken over the world after getting their hands on a weather machine that throws the world into perpetual darkness and have slaughtered a majority of humanity. Decades later a small human resistance is set to kill the Prince of Darkness and to try to bring daylight back to the world.
The problem?
I mean I understand not killing him bc his predecessor may be worse, but her being conflicted about it did not really connect for me. I mean after he killed that kid and the whole convoluted plot to kill the farm guy just made me have zero sympathy for him or his condescending games.
But at the same time his outsmarting Myra wasn't exactly difficult. She's 19, naive, has no world experience, and just doesn't seem to take things that seriously. Except for her writing. It might have made more sense if she was on her own and did have her family and the resistance to worry about- but she just seemed cool with hanging around for 2 months with no real planning except petty little games and half baked ideas.
And I def didn't care about the companion vamps enough to care if they died either, let alone enough to feel conflicted enough to want to root for her saving them in the end.
oh and PS the Sissy character was just another weird cherry on top.
Sorry to say I didn't buy this one
The problem?
Spoiler
Well the entire story hinges on an understanding of sorts developing between Myra and the vampires. But at no point in the book was Vlad compelling enough, or sympathetic, or relatable enough for that to actually make sense to me. The only thing that tied them together was him wanting her to finish her book and her wanting his approval and to be a better writer....I mean I understand not killing him bc his predecessor may be worse, but her being conflicted about it did not really connect for me. I mean after he killed that kid and the whole convoluted plot to kill the farm guy just made me have zero sympathy for him or his condescending games.
But at the same time his outsmarting Myra wasn't exactly difficult. She's 19, naive, has no world experience, and just doesn't seem to take things that seriously. Except for her writing. It might have made more sense if she was on her own and did have her family and the resistance to worry about- but she just seemed cool with hanging around for 2 months with no real planning except petty little games and half baked ideas.
And I def didn't care about the companion vamps enough to care if they died either, let alone enough to feel conflicted enough to want to root for her saving them in the end.
oh and PS the Sissy character was just another weird cherry on top.
Sorry to say I didn't buy this one