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henrietta_h 's review for:
13 Ways to Midnight Book One
by Rue Volley
2 stars.
I hated this book just as much as I loved it.
The first half, was a jumbled up mess. It started off nicely, than took off on a boring and cliché-like path. I live in Romania so this whole vampire story just makes me roll my eyes. I felt like this book wanted to be a bad copy of Twilight, and not even Twilight was exceptionally good. This "love" Echo and Thorn had was really annoying me, her being so attached to him even though he did NOTHING in the world to accomplish that. He was just rich, handsome and misterious, and she actually needed a distraction from Midnight. Actually, not a relationship from the book made sense to me, Echo and her family were as distant as they could be, I didn't really feel sorry for Midnight as I hated her from the start, along with all the characters from the book, and there was Thorn's messed up relationship with his family, and Luna's relationship with James, and Mattie abandoning Echo when she found herself a girlfriend and Daniel just always being a third wheel... I don't know, I just feel like there was no true connection between the characters nor the reader and the characters. Besides these things, the ending of the book was just too fast, Echo was behaving like she saw dead people trying to kill her aunt everydamnday, and the fact that Thorn has fangs was so exciting for her I thought the next line will be: Echo peed her pants from excitement. Annoying.
But actually I liked the idea of the book and I have to say that the ending intrigued me. I was really curious about everything I didn't know, so after all the things I hated, I read on. And at the end I was expecting to find out at least some of the things brought up in the book, but I didn't.
So with a huge dissapointment and a million questions in my heart I have to say: I don't think I will go on with this series.
I hated this book just as much as I loved it.
The first half, was a jumbled up mess. It started off nicely, than took off on a boring and cliché-like path. I live in Romania so this whole vampire story just makes me roll my eyes. I felt like this book wanted to be a bad copy of Twilight, and not even Twilight was exceptionally good. This "love" Echo and Thorn had was really annoying me, her being so attached to him even though he did NOTHING in the world to accomplish that. He was just rich, handsome and misterious, and she actually needed a distraction from Midnight. Actually, not a relationship from the book made sense to me, Echo and her family were as distant as they could be, I didn't really feel sorry for Midnight as I hated her from the start, along with all the characters from the book, and there was Thorn's messed up relationship with his family, and Luna's relationship with James, and Mattie abandoning Echo when she found herself a girlfriend and Daniel just always being a third wheel... I don't know, I just feel like there was no true connection between the characters nor the reader and the characters. Besides these things, the ending of the book was just too fast, Echo was behaving like she saw dead people trying to kill her aunt everydamnday, and the fact that Thorn has fangs was so exciting for her I thought the next line will be: Echo peed her pants from excitement. Annoying.
But actually I liked the idea of the book and I have to say that the ending intrigued me. I was really curious about everything I didn't know, so after all the things I hated, I read on. And at the end I was expecting to find out at least some of the things brought up in the book, but I didn't.
So with a huge dissapointment and a million questions in my heart I have to say: I don't think I will go on with this series.