Review: 2.5/5 Vampires Rule
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2013
I received a copy of Vampire Rules from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review so thanks to KC Blake for making this available.Where do I begin, ok I will start with what I did like. I loved the character Jersey, it says something about me that I always find the bad guys far more interesting than the heros, but Jersey and his delusional poetry spewing self was the most intriguing character in the whole book. For the YA genre it was refreshingly free of teenage angst, crappy childhoods forcing the MC to grow up fast or some coming of age story I have very little interest in...yeah that sounds pretentious but I like what I like *shrugs*.The story idea was refreshingly original; a kid gets attacked by weres gets turned to a vamp then back to human all with a destiny of saving the world or die trying. I didn't think it was possible to be original and predictable at the same time but it was. There were no big battles no real clash of good and evil just a bunch of minor skirmishes, and no surprises anywhere. I love it when I read a chapter and am left saying "wow, didn't see that coming", so it just left me feeling like something was missing.This is a dumb thing to be annoyed by and I know it is dumb so let me apologize in advance, in UF you get characters with strange or dramatic names I mean these characters are vamps, weres whatever but honestly Silver Reign has to take the cake as the worst ever...seriously I rolled my eyes every time I read it. Does it affect the quality of the book, not in the least it was just my own quirk.For me this book was just ok, nothing outstanding about it but I do think it will have appeal for the Buffy or Twilight fans out there.