Review: Riveting and Creative!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
Revamp is a pretty unique concept: Imagine a vampire apocalypse. A Vampire based society has replaced the current human society complete with coffin retail shop and blood bars. The humans are just food and farmed. If you would wake up in this society, what would you do?The book is writing from the point of view of Emma (interrupted by the back story of a few characters) as she shades her former live of a collage student and learn to adapt in this vampire universe. We follow her emotional and mental change as she tries to figure what is happening, denying the current situation because it makes no sense (And she is a psych major).The writing is very easy to rid and is full of comical current pop culture references which I found very entertaining. It is very hard to put down once you start because the story is so riveting and Emma is such a great character.The author creates his own vampire culture and dogma and these are not shining vampires. These are creature of evil and human are just food. A few disturbing scenes are included but all are well written.So why only 4 stars? Mainly for two reasons. One, is the fact that the ending feels totally rushed and is eons below the quality of the rest of the book. Too many loose ends are trying to be tied and put together in a way that did not feel right to me. I would have liked it better if the author had taken his time and written another 100 pages to properly conclude the story. Second, Emma does something totally out of character to be able to create the ending. It felt like a Deux Ex Machina and left me hungry for a proper ending.Having said that, I highly recommend the book. For 95% it is great 5 stars read.