Review: Wishing for more...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2011
The beginning of this book reminded me of the movie Kiss of the Dragon (with Jet Li and Bridget Fonda).  Though it started out as a familiar story, I have to say that it drew me in.  I liked Two right off the bat and hated Darren immediately.  This is big for me.  I have to have a develop "relationship" with the characters right away and Buecheler did that well in this book.After the first two chapters or so, I was just waiting for something to happen.  There was a lot of character and relationship development in the first half of the book (which is great) but not much else going on.  Once Theroen entered the picture the action seemed to stop.  Sure, there was Two's transition into a vampire and the feeding that comes along with it, but I feel like there could have been more action to draw the reader further into the story.  With character and relationship development and nothing else, it was hard to see what the whole plot of the story was aside from "handsome vampire rescues girl".The second half (well, really about 2/3 into it) finally got into the "guts" of the story, the plot development, the action and (let's face it) the whole point of the book.  With so much leading up to it, I was ready for some serious conflict, a really great fight scene or something along those lines.  I feel like that never happened.  Don't get me wrong, there were some great parts and some good ideas but I feel like the story fell flat.  There was so much potential for it to be really great but it never quite made it.  The best part was when Two returned to seek revenge (I'm not going to call that a spoiler because as soon as you start the book you know that's coming at some point in the book), but even that could have been better.  I just feel like it left something to be desired.Favorite quote:"Sex is sex.  Love is love.  The first is a raw biological process, the latter is something more."It wasn't a bad book by any means.  It was a dark, gritty and dramatic story.  Once I finished, my first thought was that it was 4 star worthy.  But then I started writing my review and as I was rehashing the book in my head I started realizing that I wished there was more to the story.  There were some really great ideas (the progression into vampirism, the evil elder, the different effects that vampirism has on different people, etc.) but I just think they were poorly executed.  It had the potential to be a 5 star book with a little more action and if there was a little more effort and detail put into the key scenes.  I felt like by the time the story was fully developed the author rushed to finish the book.This is the first book in a trilogy.  I did like it and I will be downloading the next book, Blood Hunt, when it's released.