Review: 3.5 stars - Strong mixed feelings for this one have me debating whether to book Passage on the next entry
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2012
The futher adventures of Lissa...I still liked newbie vampire Lissa and she is satisfyingly powerful in the action parts of the book.  But I am finding that I hate the vampire world and how powerless she is within the strictures of their rules, how black and white those rules are, and how much she acts like a child in those scenes.I also have come to really dislike her 'love' interest Gavin, getting a bit of his POV in the past book (as letters) made him tolerable, unforgivable treatment of Lissa when he brings her into the vamp world tarnished that for me.  This time around, Lissa still supposedly hasn't forgiven him for that but when she is forced to become engaged to a vamp to avoid everybody fighting over her (there are only 17 female vamps in the world, which makes Lissa a precious comodity) she picks Gavin as the known evil instead of one of the other two less than desirable choices.  And even though - outside of sex - he is grouchy, spends most of his time ranting at her in italian/french/whatever, and is more concerned about his possession of her than any trauma Lissa suffers, she lurves him - a doormaty flaw in her that I do not like.All of the those frustrating things, had me wishing that the books was over with about 10% left despite the things that I did like. And if not for the fact that she actually tries to escape her situation at the end of the book - her method is quite dramatic - I wouldn't even be considering picking up the next one, especially since I have it on good authority that the series completely jumps the shark a few books down the road.So four stars for Lissa when she is in the company of wolves being all kickbutty, and for her non-romance relationships - I like her interactions with the other characters. Two stars for the frustrations of the love interests (who are more interested in themselves and not very loving) and for the vampire world - which definitely needs the touch of a reasonable female.