Review: Can't believe I paid for this book!! Don't waste your money or your time!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
I try to find at least something good to write in a book reviews, and my book reviews are usually really short, but this book has a lot of work that needs to be done. It was like reading a rough draft and not a finished, completed novel. The typo errors were horrible. It was like proof-reading a teenagers homework assignment. Constantly re-reading sentences and trying to figure out what was trying to be said. There are always errors in the eBooks, but not like this book. It was literally like reading a rough draft. The story definitely needed more development, more editing and a more accurate description.It is not often that a book description is so off from the book; however, this book description is very misleading "But old places have old families, old stories… old demons". There was only one "old family" story, which was Adam's, and even that wasn't that great, a couple of paragraphs. No other "old families, old stories..." and definitely no "old demons". The description continued and said "explicit sexual material and mature themes", so I expected a sex scene or whatever, but the lesbian relationship I could have done without. Half of the book was about Stephanie's fears for change, her friendless existence and a lesbian relationship. That REALLY should have been in the description. I would have steered clear of this book on that basis alone. A good, steamy sex scene is good, but lesbian sex, not so much. Even the Adam and Stephanie sex scenes (2) were not even that great.Stephanie's constant narrative grated on every nerve, to say it mildly. I have never read a book that had so much in it about food. You were constantly reading about her eating, how hungry she was, the smell of pizza and on and on. Adam is telling her the "big secret" and he makes Stephanie a peanut butter sandwich, a vivid description of the making of this sandwich, and so between hearing this big family secret, Stephanie is now eating this sandwich and describing it. In another part, Stephanie is hiding from the police in the men's bathroom and wishing she had brought a backpack with food. If you are that scared and hiding, you are not thinking about eating, seriously. It was like that throughout the book, this constant food fetish.Eventually, over half way through the book, you get to the supernatural part of the book that was so disappointing. Wow, so predictable. Pathetically predictable. You figured pretty much what Adam was as soon as he was introduced. Adam wasn't a vampire or a demon and that only leaves a couple of supernatural options. The constant use of adjectives like savagely, animal hunger, primal, unshackled, "something animal and dangerous". Predictable. There really wasn't any surprise on what creature Adam was.Stephanie's "girlfriend" disappears/murdered and there is no questioning from the police, nothing. The closest people are usually questioned, but not in this book. Several things were brought up and you were waiting to see how these things were going to tie into the story and it never does. There really wasn't any follow through on anything. It is almost like the author had a short story and then filled in a bunch of stuff to make it longer. The story and the characters lacked development.The sample of the first couple chapters of the book were slow but kept you interested enough to buy the book. What a mistake that was! I have to say that this was a total waste of my money and my time. The book was extremely disappointing and, unless the book was free, I probably won't read another book from this author.