Review: Good weekend read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2013
LIKED:I enjoyed the unusual slave/vampire twist of this book. I thought the writing was very well done. I could actually get a feel for the characters and the era in which the story took place. I enjoyed the story line. It did get a little bogged down at times.I appreciated that we weren't left with a huge cliff hanger at the end of this book. This book can stand alone but there is enough indication of where the next book can take us to keep our interest alive.DISLIKED: I thought the length of the relationship between the two main characters towards the middle of the book got a little boring. It kind of drug on for too long without any changes being made.I thought the difference in Luna's speech and her journal writing was ridiculous. If you can write as eloquently as she did in the journal then you would also change your speech patterns correspondingly.The ending was so rushed that I am still scratching my head and wondering "what.....?" It's like all of a sudden the author ran out of time and just threw it together. I don't want to give anything away in this review but a better explanation of how Luna did the change thing (very confusing) what the heck happened to Luna later, and why did it happen? I'm a bit puzzled. I think this could have been expanded to at least a couple of chapters worth of explanation.What happened to Julia the horse? We were given hints that she was more than just an ordinary horse but were never clued in as to how, and what happened to her, she was just let go and never mentioned again.OVERALL: I wouldn't recommend this to younger teens due to the brutality, graphic violence and rape scenes. I don't feel they were gratuitous, they were a critical part of the story and sadly a reality of how life was for these slaves, but might be a bit much for younger readers.I was interested enough in the story that I would read a sequel.