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Boring. If you like Black Dagger Brotherhood, Sookie Stackhouse, Anita Blake, even Queen Betsy, you are going to be very disappointed in this book. With vampire romance we come to expect a few things: action, new "information" about vampire lifestyle, and sex. Even humor in some cases. Dead Perfect delivers none of that.
Dead Perfect is like the Christan Virtues answer to vampire romance. Amanda Ashley writes in a very passive style which makes it difficult to really become emotionally involved with the characters. There is no sex until marriage, a mantra repeated throughout the excruciating 380+ pages of this book. The couple finally has sex at the end but it is a couple of sentences. I guess that is what some readers prefer, just not what I would expect or look for in the genre of Vampire Romance. I suppose there may be a market for Christian Virtues Vampire Romance, and if so, this is a perfect fit.
The plot is plodding and scenes, even entire chapters read like this: ""Do you want to go outside?" "Okay let's go outside." And then they went outside."
NOTHING happens. With this popular author I wondered if she had chosen this style for this particular book or these characters. However reading excerpts of her other books in the back of Dead Perfect, it's all the same. Passive voice and little action.
Not my cuppa.
Dead Perfect is like the Christan Virtues answer to vampire romance. Amanda Ashley writes in a very passive style which makes it difficult to really become emotionally involved with the characters. There is no sex until marriage, a mantra repeated throughout the excruciating 380+ pages of this book. The couple finally has sex at the end but it is a couple of sentences. I guess that is what some readers prefer, just not what I would expect or look for in the genre of Vampire Romance. I suppose there may be a market for Christian Virtues Vampire Romance, and if so, this is a perfect fit.
The plot is plodding and scenes, even entire chapters read like this: ""Do you want to go outside?" "Okay let's go outside." And then they went outside."
NOTHING happens. With this popular author I wondered if she had chosen this style for this particular book or these characters. However reading excerpts of her other books in the back of Dead Perfect, it's all the same. Passive voice and little action.
Not my cuppa.
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