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Chosen at Nightfall
by C.C. Hunter
I honestly wish I could have given this more stars. I wanted this series to be so great and tried willing the writing to be better. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
I remember first being taken with [b:Born at Midnight|8705784|Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1)|C.C. Hunter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1438561542s/8705784.jpg|13578604] and how great of a story I thought it was. For the most part I thought Kylie was relatable just because she was a spaz for a majority of the book. But then she turned out to be a basketcase for a majority of the series and there's only so many damn times you can read "her heart filled with emotion" "emotions ran around her head" "emotion, emotion, emotion." Good Lord. Get a thesaurus please.
Anyway, I originally thought this series was great and so creative. A new twist on the supernatural world and how one becomes part of that world. I thought the minor characters were excellent (I still think that) and they kind of balanced out Kylie as the main character. But the more I read this book, the more I realized it could have been so much better if it had been written eloquently. The amount of times I looked up and went, "Really?" in this book was a few too many.
**spoiler starts here
Okay, can we all just agree that Kylie spent too much time playing a love guru (when she shouldn't have because look at her own life) and not enough time, I don't know, worrying about the fact that she was going to have to kill or be killed? Goodness gracious. I understand that she's sixteen and in love and can't handle all the emotional stress sometimes, but I know when I was sixteen and someone was coming to murder me, I probably would've paid a little more attention to that fact.
Like I said, the minor characters are what helps this book out. Even though they are all extreme, Della and Miranda are great friends. Della is probably the most down-to-earth out of all of them. Derek is clingy and needy and reminds me of Romeo. "Oh, I'm so in love with Roslyn (here, Kylie) and I can't get enough of her, I need her in my li--oh wait, hey, Juliet (Jenny)" and just completely moves on pretty much two days after pledging his love to Kylie. I would be a little insulted if I was Kylie. Holiday is almost as much of a spaz as Kylie. She's the adult for goodness' sake but definitely acts like one of the sixteen year old girls. She cares a lot and loves them, but hello, can you say playing favorites? I wonder how all the other kids in the camp feel--like, hello, we're here too and also have some drama in our lives because we're supernatural teenagers, but go ahead and have a bunch of sleepovers with Kylie, that's not weird or anything. I also wasn't the biggest fan of how Burnett was portrayed in this book. He was such a badass and then he went completely soft. Completely. I wouldn't mind him showing some emotion (there's that word again) here and there, but I feel like he didn't stay completely true to character. I actually did like Lucas in this one and how much he owned up to his mistakes and tried to fix it.
Kylie's family. They are total nutjobs, every single one of them, except Daniel. They could have their own TV show and be more famous than the Kardashians for how much drama they stir up. Good Lord. This includes her mom acting like a child, her stepdad also being a child with a sense of entitlement, her chameleon and controlling family, and those poor Brightens. Sheesh. I almost can't blame Kylie for being so neurotic with a family like this.
The plot was so-so. The sword fight at the end was just meh for how much building up there was. Mario's death was so anticlimactic. And then the wedding happened and it was just all a big rush to get the book over with. I don't know, it left something to be desired but at least it was a huge happy ending. It did wrap up all the relationships, so there was that.
All in all, this book--and series--had so much potential and would have been so much better if the writing was more mature. Just because it's for ages 14 and up does not mean it has to be written as if a fourteen-year-old wrote it. If all the characters weren't certifiably insane, it also would have been better. Like, take it to the extremes and then in editing, reign it in a little so the audience isn't all over the place while reading.
I remember first being taken with [b:Born at Midnight|8705784|Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls, #1)|C.C. Hunter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1438561542s/8705784.jpg|13578604] and how great of a story I thought it was. For the most part I thought Kylie was relatable just because she was a spaz for a majority of the book. But then she turned out to be a basketcase for a majority of the series and there's only so many damn times you can read "her heart filled with emotion" "emotions ran around her head" "emotion, emotion, emotion." Good Lord. Get a thesaurus please.
Anyway, I originally thought this series was great and so creative. A new twist on the supernatural world and how one becomes part of that world. I thought the minor characters were excellent (I still think that) and they kind of balanced out Kylie as the main character. But the more I read this book, the more I realized it could have been so much better if it had been written eloquently. The amount of times I looked up and went, "Really?" in this book was a few too many.
**spoiler starts here
Okay, can we all just agree that Kylie spent too much time playing a love guru (when she shouldn't have because look at her own life) and not enough time, I don't know, worrying about the fact that she was going to have to kill or be killed? Goodness gracious. I understand that she's sixteen and in love and can't handle all the emotional stress sometimes, but I know when I was sixteen and someone was coming to murder me, I probably would've paid a little more attention to that fact.
Like I said, the minor characters are what helps this book out. Even though they are all extreme, Della and Miranda are great friends. Della is probably the most down-to-earth out of all of them. Derek is clingy and needy and reminds me of Romeo. "Oh, I'm so in love with Roslyn (here, Kylie) and I can't get enough of her, I need her in my li--oh wait, hey, Juliet (Jenny)" and just completely moves on pretty much two days after pledging his love to Kylie. I would be a little insulted if I was Kylie. Holiday is almost as much of a spaz as Kylie. She's the adult for goodness' sake but definitely acts like one of the sixteen year old girls. She cares a lot and loves them, but hello, can you say playing favorites? I wonder how all the other kids in the camp feel--like, hello, we're here too and also have some drama in our lives because we're supernatural teenagers, but go ahead and have a bunch of sleepovers with Kylie, that's not weird or anything. I also wasn't the biggest fan of how Burnett was portrayed in this book. He was such a badass and then he went completely soft. Completely. I wouldn't mind him showing some emotion (there's that word again) here and there, but I feel like he didn't stay completely true to character. I actually did like Lucas in this one and how much he owned up to his mistakes and tried to fix it.
Kylie's family. They are total nutjobs, every single one of them, except Daniel. They could have their own TV show and be more famous than the Kardashians for how much drama they stir up. Good Lord. This includes her mom acting like a child, her stepdad also being a child with a sense of entitlement, her chameleon and controlling family, and those poor Brightens. Sheesh. I almost can't blame Kylie for being so neurotic with a family like this.
The plot was so-so. The sword fight at the end was just meh for how much building up there was. Mario's death was so anticlimactic. And then the wedding happened and it was just all a big rush to get the book over with. I don't know, it left something to be desired but at least it was a huge happy ending. It did wrap up all the relationships, so there was that.
All in all, this book--and series--had so much potential and would have been so much better if the writing was more mature. Just because it's for ages 14 and up does not mean it has to be written as if a fourteen-year-old wrote it. If all the characters weren't certifiably insane, it also would have been better. Like, take it to the extremes and then in editing, reign it in a little so the audience isn't all over the place while reading.