Review: Like Twilight but much, much darker.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
In the spirit of fairness I've received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Let me start by saying anyone who reads my reviews can see I'm blunt with my feedback, and that I avoid giving away spoilers. Most times if I can't find anything nice to see I don't review, period.With that in mind...The Bad:I found myself wanting to skip the entire first three pages because it's all backstory. It's painfully obvious this didn't go through an editor. For one thing the author is way too fond of very long sentences, and repetitions. The descriptions are heavy handed. Paragraphs run into huge blocks of text. The dairy-esque beginning of several chapters grew tedious and annoying. Chapter four was a repeat of chapter one's opening.Mia struck me as a TSTL character. Seriously there is a limit to mouthing off, especially to vampires. An ancient vampire no less.The Good:The first paragraph was a good opening hook.If you can see past the things mentioned above, once the story gets going, it tries to keep your attention.Mia's thoughts are quite accurate to the situations she finds herself in.The author did a good job of making Caleb creepy.Ryan is quite a character and I connected to him quickly. Hands down Ryan is the reason I finished the story. I wanted to see how his part of the story ended.Overall I can't give this a full three stars. Way too many major issues for that.