I enjoyed Grace but I was so frustrated at her actions most of the book that I wanted to reach into the pages and strangle her. Jaxon (the vampire love interest) was angsty, possessive, and rude yet Grace immediately fell for him. I swear, I just did not understand these characters. Maybe I'm biased because I did read Twilight when I was quite young and it's been one of my favorite series ever since, but the only similarity between this and Twilight is that the main character moves to a cold town, meets a possessive vampire love interest, and happens to be clumsy.Īs for the two main characters, I feel like our two main characters are what would happen if you took Edward and Bella from Twilight, stripped them of any interesting qualities, and then amped up the possessiveness of Edward and sheer dumbassery/clumsiness of Bella. Even if it wasn't specifically over-marketed as that, a lot of blurbs, praises, and early reviews included in emails and informational sheets and whatnot were calling it the "next Twilight" or the "feminist Twilight you always wanted" and it just.wasn't. I think one thing that did this book a disservice was the constant marketing of this being the next Twilight. In terms of plot, this book had one of the messiest plots I've ever read. I was so ready to DNF once I hit 300 pages if nothing had happened and then things finally started to pick up a bit, only for them to drop off for a while before the big climax at the end.
There was a lot of pining over the love interest, complaining about the cold of living in Alaska, and the main character acting like an idiot. So what happened for the first 300 pages? Absolutely-freaking-nothing. Additionally, what's described in the synopsis as the plot didn't start happening until almost halfway in the book either. For a book about the main character going to a school filled with vampires & other paranormal creatures, it took forever for her to actually find out that they existed.
I'm sad to say that there's more I disliked about this book than I actually enjoyed.įor starters, this book did not have to be almost 600 pages long. By the time I finally got to the end, I was rejoicing. I wanted to like it so much that I pushed through and read the entire thing even when I was considering DNF-ing after 200 pages.
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