Review: booksbysteph says" This Book Bites and Not in a Good Way"
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
* WARNING: SPOILER ALERT ** WARNING: LANUAGE MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN * (I will have to change some of my words to make Amazon approval)This book is similar to the movie, The Wedding Date, minus the cash payout, add in some fangs, and placed on a gaudy cruise ship. The plot of the story ranges from the innocence of the Twilight movies to the R-ratings of True Blood, the HBO series. Sorry, but if you going to write about vampires, you have big shoes to fill these days.This book was fun and entertaining. It made me smile and laugh. However, there is not much substance in the content and I was left with many questions. Where to start? Mmm...I did not like the change in writing style. I am not sure if this was done on purpose, but the writing style and language changed as the relationship of the two main characters developed. I can understand why the author would do that, if this was the case, but it does not work with this book. For instance, at the bottom of the right hand page used teasing words like, he palmed her sex. Then you turn the page and the top of the left page says it says how he thrusts his c*ck inside her. The change in language was so sudden that I felt it was inappropriate. Do not get me wrong, I am all for some raunchy sexual encounters, but this book did not need the change in language to fulfill the same affect. The sex after the big vampire reveal should have been more loving and tasteful, making love instead of f-ing. Their words said I love you but their sex screams I need you inside me now. It confuses the reader and I didn't feel the change in the main character's feelings for each other.Who is okay with vampires? Seriously? The probability of knowing a vampire is rare, so the book states, but two vampires? Where is the content in the back-story of Olivia to make the reader understand why Noah being a vampire means nothing to Alice? All we got was that Olivia showed Alice her fangs and broke her brother's heart. So why is Alice okay with Noah being a vampire? She's so flippant, it's no big deal. I could not believe in her confidence. Especially when she doubts herself and other's actions and I did not feel love, only sexual desire.Speaking of back-story, where is Kane's? If this book is the beginning of a series based on Kane, then it is not headed in the right direction. We know nothing of Kane except he is old, he turned Noah into a vampire, and he may or may not have been a Japanese warrior. I can understand Kane showing up in Mexico to meet Alice because The Council needs the facts if they were going to overturn a ruling. On the way to Mexico, Kane hears that Noah is not bonding with Alice. He shows up before Noah, Noah tells him that he needs to talk to Alice and his father, for all intents and purposes, beats the cr*p out of him? Who does that? Is Kane that bad of a person? Is there bad blood (no pun intended) between Kane and Noah? Why the hostility? I do not know because we were given no information.So Noah is 200 years old, but acts like he is in high school. Where is the wisdom of two centuries? Jealously and anger at the mere mention of Brent's name and the games they played, trying to one up each other. This is not a pi$$ing contest. It is not like Noah is inexperienced with women. He charmed the family easy enough. Where is the confidence and wisdom of a man who has seen many years? I felt his interactions with Brent were childish and immature and it did not fit with who Noah is.Like I said before, this book is fun. It is cute. It is a very fast read, only took me a few hours, if that. But so much was left out that my confusion and my many questions almost overshadowed the entertainment.Until next time, live life one page at a time!