Review: Not What I expected
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
I read the first book in this trilogy and I liked it okay. When I started reading the second book, it was all right. The Gabrielle story line was interesting and tragic. I wanted a different ending for her, but I could understand why the author took that route.This book was mushier than I expected it to be. We watch Rand fall in love, hence the title "Afterglow." It was a little weird to me because he kept saying in the first book that his dead wife (who had JUST died) had been the love of his life and his soulmate. It seemed a little quick for him to fall in love, but this is just my viewpoint. There is also the fact that he is on a mission to save his kidnapped daughter. Seems like he would eat, sleep, and breathe that until he found her, not having the heart for anything else but training. But again, that's just me.There was action in this book, but I was expecting more. They are vampire hunters, after all.Some of the plot seemed a little too predictable and convenient. Like who he meets on the train and the little bit of help he gets fighting a ton of vampires.Overall, it was an entertaining read, but I think it could have been more developed in some places and less developed in others. For me, there was too much romance for the type of book it's supposed to be.I would give 3 and a half stars if I could, so four stars because while there were story lines that didn't seem plausible to me, there were also story lines that intrigued me and made me want to know what happened.