Review: Enjoyable in a mindless fun sort of way
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2014
The "Oh emm gee, I'm a Vampyre!" sort of theme that this book seemed to revolve around was fun at first; it was a contemporary, lighthearted vampire story that I enjoyed quite a bit... initially.After about ten chapters of this, however, it started getting old and I was hoping for some kind of huge twist that would provide a payoff for the book. I finally got it, but it was still, ultimately, somewhat disappointing.I think that the main thing was the repetitive use of many of the devices in the book; as a number of other reviewers have mentioned, it seems as if the author mentions about every other page that Astrid, the protagonist, is a Prada whore. So is her BFF, Gemma. Oh, and so is every Vampyre, we're told. Did I mention they're all Prada whores? And also Prada whores? Yeah, that's kinda how the book feels.And about the "Vampyre" thing... for whatever reason, the author prefers to use the old spelling of "vampyre" rather than "vampire." However, she also insists on capitalizing it every single time: "Vampyre." She never explains why. :shrug:Anyway, don't expect deep philosophy, sophisticated humor, or anything really approaching horror, and you'll be fine. There's also a judicious amount of fairly explicit sex. Ah, well. At least everything was spelled correctly.