Elissa (elissaslibrary) - , reviewed on 1/16/2011 + 6 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

Like a lot of other reviews, I SO MUCH wanted to like this book. I LOVED Twilight, LOVED PC Cast's House of Night series, LOVE romance novels and young adult fiction. I believe I have a high tolerance for fluffy plots, angst, and sex.

I got to page 183 before I gave up. This book reads like a 9th grade wanna be novel. Everything - the characters, the plot, the dialogue, everything - is so thin that its hard to follow. I'm all for novels that use regional dialects, as in PC Cast's House of Night series, but this was gratingly hicksville.

And the sex - eeew. I've read hundreds, if not thousands, of romance novels so I've read a lot of sex scenes...some good, some bad. The first one in this book was gross...gross like the snake up the butt in Kiss the Girls. After Sookie and Bill have sex for the first time - her first time - Bill uses his vampire blood to heal her on the inside. Yeah. He cuts his finger and begins to finger her and they go at it again. Seriously. And its not much more romantically described than that, either.

This book had the worst of everything: the worst of the vampire angst from Twilight, the worst of the stupid heroine and country cliche dialogue of House of Night, the worst sex I've ever read, and the plot of a 9th grade literature assignment.

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