Review: It started off on the wrong foot with me, and it just never clicked into place
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
Title:  Serafina and the Silent VampireSeries:  Serafina Series Book #1Author:  Marie TreanorRating:  DReview:  This book was not quite what I was expecting.  It's one of those that had me going back and re-reading the blurb, wondering if I misread something!  I was almost immediately turned off to the story by Serafina herself.  To say that she was 'not strictly honest' is a bit of an understatement.  She spends the majority of her time as a charlatan, conning people out of their money.  Not only does she con them, but her and her 'employees' stage events in order to do so.  The way the story was told regarding that left you with no sympathy for her or her friends whatsoever.Loving books on vampires, I thought for sure this one would be great - however, even the vampire aspect of it didn't really mesh with me.  I didn't really think that the 'inaudible' part would actually mean that he talks without ever moving his lips!  I assumed that he would be invisible to everyone but Serafina, and that she would be the only one who could hear him.  That it would be somewhat of a twist on vampire lore and he would be somewhat like a ghost (rather it be a permanent thing or simply temporary).  Instead, he's visible to everyone, no one else notices anything weird about it, and to Serafina he doesn't move his lips.  The idea of this in my head just weirded me out on the whole storyline, and it just didn't get any better for me after that.Perhaps it's just me, but I just didn't connect with this book at all.  It started off on the wrong foot with me, and it just never clicked into place.  I usually like something a little different from the standard, particularly when the author can pull it off and make me believe that it could be possible.  But I just didn't feel that with this book.  So much so that I had a hard time reading it.Apparently, I am in the minority here....after writing this review I checked it out on Amazon.  At the time it had 31 reviews - 12 of them were 5 star ratings, and 13 of them were 4 stars, so keep that in mind if you're thinking about picking it up.[...]