lightinthewoods 's review for:

Roseblood by A.G. Howard

2.0

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It might be because I truly love Phantom of the Opera, despite its flaws, both book and musical. It might be because the story felt arbitrary, cliché and quite dull. It's a sad thing to say, really, as I had been looking forward to Roseblood quite a bit. After all, like I said, I love Phantom of the Opera. However, I can only lament to what this book could have been. Imagine it not as a paranormal/urban fantasy YA, but a more contemporary story in the likes of The Secret History. A girl, haunted by her love for a book and its characters, believing herself to be watched by Phantom himself, slowly losing herself to those ideas. So many things could have been done with this idea. Instead, it became a YA novel with paranormal creatures

it had to be vampires

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