Review: Well ....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
The overall story is pretty awesome. We have an apocalypse caused by vampires and post-apocalyptic/dystopian society, vampire hunter turned vampire, kick ass fighting scenes, love suspense, snitches, secrets, a killer disclosure of the villain's identity and some good twists in the story.I really liked this take on post-apocalypse and vampires. And I was really excited at the beginning thinking I found another amazing read and gave it 5* immediately.But then she was turned and brought into a hidden vampire society. I did not care how quickly she gave up the fight. Yes, I know she fought internally somewhat and her strategy was to gain their trust and then escape but I would've liked to see her fight a bit longer and try harder to escape before joining them. She also forgave Aden way too quickly. I loved how she reacted when she found out he turned her but then we never see those feelings again. There should've been more internal struggle. In fact Aden made her feel bad for her acting out as though she should have been thankful for his help and she apologized. Her behavior was just baffling to me.Aden turning her wasn't the last resort. She wasn't on the brink of death so that Aden had no choice but to do it. No. They were fighting, vampire and vampire hunter, and then he decided to turn her just like that because she was someone's daughter and had that birthmark. And he showed no regret. We find out at the end why he did it. But that is a behavior of an antagonist not of the love interest. That's why I didn't like him and I didn't like Sloane either because of her behavior. I think her switching the team should have been done with more fight and conflicting internal dialogue to be believable. It was all done too mellow for me.I enjoyed fighting scenes but the rest was not to my taste. Dialogues were so cliché and I kept rolling my eyes. After I struggled through the obnoxious high school part and "falling in love" scenes that should've been more uniquely written, there were some great twists in the story that pulled me in for a bit. I liked the turn at the end but again wished it had more depth to it so it would be more believable. We have no idea how Nero ended up so evil and I just couldn't accept his actions the way they were portrayed.I'm sorry to say that as much as I wanted to like this book at the beginning it wasn't to my taste. I mean I'm a fan of YA genre, vampires and dystopia and bringing these three together couldn't be better but execution of this story was not good.