Review: This book was just annoying....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2011
I don't like to write bad reviews...but this just had to be said:This book was bad!  It had the possibility to be pretty good but the execution wasn't there.First of all it seemed like the author just took a little bit of vampire lore from every vampire story there is.  Which wouldn't be bad in itself, except that I felt like it was almost a parody at times.  Kinda like that movie "Vampire's Suck" that makes fun of all the vampire movies.I REALLY, really, really, did not like the "heroine" of this story.  I don't even like calling her that. She had no depth, and was a spoiled, self-centered, vapid young girl.  She had no brains, and might as well have walked around with a sign on her neck saying, "Here I am come kill me!"  Her character is really what made this book awful.Here's the story:Brian is a vampire and lives across the street from "the girl of his dreams".  (I think this exact phrase was used at least 10 times in the story, although I really think it must have been nightmares!)  Besides the usual vampire powers (strength, speed, agility, and mind control) he can dream walk and spirit walk.  He's pretty obsessed with Heather (the girl across the street).  He basically stalks her dreams and follows her around in a spirit walk.  The book starts off where he is spirit walking and follows her to an abandoned home where she and her friends like to party.  Heather leaves the party just as men in suits come to haul all of her friends off.  (We don't know where.)  Brian "suggests" that Heather come to his house so that he can keep her safe.  Their journey begins as they try to escape the mysterious agents who have been tracking them down.  The weird thing is that they aren't after Brian (because he's a vampire), they are actually after Heather (although I don't know why, she could make anyone want to just gag her and put her in the trunk).I felt like Brian was a pretty accurate description of a teenage boy- hungry all the time and thinking about sex when he wasn't eating.  I really never understood what he saw in Heather except that she was beautiful.  (Which again, would be true to form for a teenage boy).This is not something I would want my pre-teen daughter to read, because of the way that the female lead was portrayed and some mild sexual content.