Review: Not a homerun for me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2013
**2.5 stars**I am going to be the odd man out here and say that I didn't love this book. It is definitely different than anything else out there, and I applaud the author for doing something original. However, it didn't quite click for me for a few reasons.1)The horror aspect. This is totally personal preference but I tend to lean towards the shiny, Hollywood-y vampires vs the gruesome murderous rampage vampires. Here, we mostly see the later kind. Some of the details were too gory for my liking. I don't like books that give me the willies. **shrugs**2)The world-building. I didn't love the world building here. For someone that didn't know that towns existed outside of his little community, Mik sure had an easy time adapting to the outside world. He seemed so accepting of everything.3)The romance. While I think that the relationship between Ash and Mik was wonderful in how it came about (I LOVE that they both didn't play games and just faced up to everything that happened between them. No silly drama here! Thanks Daniel Kaine!), I simply wanted more of it. I didn't think that what they had was strong enough to pull them through the entire book. I wanted more time devoted to them as a couple before they were torn apart. This is also a bit personal preference because I tend to like sappier kinds of books and this wasn't sappy.I have to say that I didn't want to put this one down because I wanted to see how it would all play out (hence the rounding up to 3 stars), but I have no desire to move on with the series. It just didn't do it for me.