Review: Had some pizazz but flunked
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 28, 2013
My biggest irk with this book is the fact that her way of speaking remained the same even when she became educated! That makes absolutely no sense! She learned new words, sentence structure, pronunciation, grammar, etc etc and yet she still talks as if she was born yesterday. WHY A. D. KOBOAH! WHY!Secondly, this book was half original, half cheesy cliché.I do love the slavery aspect of it and how voodoo was included. It made my mouth hunger for more! However everything else in this book flunked terribly. Mistreated girl drawn away into a palace with a vampire. Sounds typical - I've read better.And when things did get really good (SPOILER ALERT) when she gets crazy in the unseen past, the audience is left with a brief summary of that and then it ends. CAN YOU PLEASE ELABORATE?! That's the plot I care about! (END OF SPOILER ALERT)The main character is foolishly stubborn and I felt that the last romantic conflict was clearly forced - a failed attempt to realistically get our male protagonist captured.It had some pizazz but honestly this book was nothing special. I recommend reading Fledgling by Octavia E Butler instead.