Review: Vampire Cruises.... Interesting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2013
I saw the cover for this book on a blog that I was checking out.  I thought it looked like a quick easy read and for the price I couldn't resist picking it up.  I was impressed with this story.  It catches your attention right away and draws you in.  I loved Noah, he was so grouchy, which yes, usually isn't a good thing, but with him it actually came off as more adorable than anything else.  As you learn more about Noah, you almost start feeling bad for him because even though he doesn't believe that his life has become stagnant it really has.  Alice is great.  She is the kind of character that you want to get to know.  In fact, she is the kind of character I want to call up and go drink appletini's with after a bad day.There is a lot to enjoy about this book, the characters are interesting, the story is fast paced, and there is a ton of humor injected into the story.  And, there are of course HOT guys.  The chemistry between the characters is great and it draws you in.There are a few things that leave you feeling odd about this story.  There are several times that they bring up Alice's brother who was engaged to a vampire, but left him at the alter six months ago, but you don't know anything about that story, when the couple was first mentioned I tried searching for that book so that I would know more about the whole lexicon of this series only to find out that this was the first book in the series.  That made me feel lost at times. Also, most vampire stories require the vamp to stay out of the sun, however, this one was out playing pool volleyball in the middle of the day and it seemed like he only needed a couple more mouthfuls of blood.  That was the point that it actually seemed a bit unrealistic.  Yes I did use that term in a review of a vampire novel.Overall, this story has many more positives than negatives and when it was over, I know that I am definitely going to be picking up the next book of this series.  I would have probably given it more of a 3.5 star rating, but since you can only use whole stars I gave it a higher rating than I probably would have because the characters really did make this story worth reading.