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A review by jessa_sage1996
Rest in Pieces by Lucinda Dark
3.0
I’m struggling to think of what to say. I liked the book fine but nothing really jumped out at me in regards to impacting me. The book is about a seventeen year old who lost her entire family and is put in the system before godparents are found and she’s sent to live with them. Her life goes from surviving the system to a preppy private school where she is surrounded by affluence. She struggles to balance who she knows she is (a vampire hunter) and who she is pretending to be (a high school student). From there, vampire conspiracy theories are brought to light, a murderer is killing townies, and her foster brother hates her. She meets a rival at the school and a friend who’s all about that gossip.
All in all, it wasn’t a bad book. I was entertained enough to probably continue with the series. At the very least, I want to know if she is in the middle of a love triangle or a reverse harem. It’s nice that the female character is the badass in the book. She’s young and independent and I dig that. Her expressing her own vulnerability in the future would be nice but she definitely didn’t need to do it in book one. Torin is also an interesting character.
It would be nice if, in the future, any of the other vampires expressed an attitude besides “We’re all pawns and humans are all cattle”. It’s hard for me to believe there isn’t an opposing faction of vamps to Arrius. Maybe there is symbolism in the fact that hunters are good and vampires are evil but even Supernatural had concessions to the “all vampires are bad” diatribe and the idea that hunters were the good of the world was broken up by the existence of manipulated and dirty hunters. So, I don’t really believe Lucinda Dark would just have all vamps be bad, all hunters good, and the humans to represent the gray. I want to see the complexity come into play so like I said, I’ll probably continue on with the series.
All in all, it wasn’t a bad book. I was entertained enough to probably continue with the series. At the very least, I want to know if she is in the middle of a love triangle or a reverse harem. It’s nice that the female character is the badass in the book. She’s young and independent and I dig that. Her expressing her own vulnerability in the future would be nice but she definitely didn’t need to do it in book one. Torin is also an interesting character.
It would be nice if, in the future, any of the other vampires expressed an attitude besides “We’re all pawns and humans are all cattle”. It’s hard for me to believe there isn’t an opposing faction of vamps to Arrius. Maybe there is symbolism in the fact that hunters are good and vampires are evil but even Supernatural had concessions to the “all vampires are bad” diatribe and the idea that hunters were the good of the world was broken up by the existence of manipulated and dirty hunters. So, I don’t really believe Lucinda Dark would just have all vamps be bad, all hunters good, and the humans to represent the gray. I want to see the complexity come into play so like I said, I’ll probably continue on with the series.