Review: Just didn't do it for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2013
I was asked to ready Karli Rush's novel Daylight for an honest review.Summary:Mattie is a young vamp who shortly after being turned was given a serum allowing her walk in the daylight. After leaving home, she is on a mission make it to Solace, a vampire city, in order to get more of the serum. Along the way she is plagued by thoughts of the sexy Graham who just happens to have his own secrets.Liked:Vampire books have been done, but toss in Graham's secret and it becomes something original. Of all the paranormal/ urban fantasy, I've never read one with that kind of character (trying not to give any spoilers)The idea that there was a serum allowing vamps to walk in the sun had great potential!Got to read from multiple POV - both from Mattie's & Graham's.(I personally like this)Love scenes were decent without being over the top.critique:The characters were not as well developed as I would have liked. Mattie acts as if she is this angsty goth teen pissed off at the world. Even when her life is threatened & she is tortured, everything out of her mouth is dripping with sarcasm. She's been a vamp for a few decades - shouldn't she have grown up a bit by now? There was no growth, no change, no lesson learned for her throughout the story. Neither Mattie or Graham have any redeeming qualities about them. In fact, I know very little about Graham aside from he keeps disappearing and popping back in at random times.I felt the plot was all over the place. She wanted the serum, but didn't go into why. The vamp who became like her BFF when she got to Solace was kinda in on some plot against Mattie, I think. (nothing more was said about this) The leaders in Solace kept putting Mattie in a job she CLEARLY was not going to be good at, then punished her, only to put her right back in the job she failed at doing in the first place. This became a big focal point. Graham would swoop in a for a bit, then suddenly be gone without explanation. I just felt like there was no set rising action leading to a climax; there was no one set goal to be accomplished, so if the goal was reached, I wasn't sure.Midway through the story the book suddenly shifted to erotica. The scenes were good, but I felt like I was suddenly reading a different book for that whole section.Overall, I wasn't as pleased as I wanted to be with this book. The idea for the two paranormal characters hooking up had great potential, but it just didn't hit the mark for me.