alexisneuville's review against another edition
4.0
I really love this book! It was written very well and it made me laugh and cry at times. Also get very very angry at Lucius at some points- but at the end I immediatly decided that he was an okay guy. :D
znelson's review against another edition
5.0
This was seriously one of the best books I have ever read. Lucious is a great mysterious vampire. And the story is just so relatable. I mean sure, we may not be vampires, but the average American teenager.
velvetmorning14's review against another edition
3.0
To be honest i started reading this book because all my friends was reading this at the same time so because of this hype i started too!
I have to admit that i didnt like it at all A nice guy a hot vampire with a nice girl same old story which i am very familiar with!So the first chapters started really slow to me and i have to be clear that i was not drag at all.
But the more i was reading it the more the book suck me into in and specially when the new guy becomes hot bad guy most things in the books made me to read more and more till the end.
I have to say something last the last two chapters specially the very last one was totally OMFG totally awesome totally BLOW our mind which made me really transform the way i was in the start and how i become in the end after reading the last chapter!
I cant believe that i cant wait for the second!Its funny how different feelings i had in the start and how i am now!
I have to admit that i didnt like it at all A nice guy a hot vampire with a nice girl same old story which i am very familiar with!So the first chapters started really slow to me and i have to be clear that i was not drag at all.
But the more i was reading it the more the book suck me into in and specially when the new guy becomes hot bad guy most things in the books made me to read more and more till the end.
I have to say something last the last two chapters specially the very last one was totally OMFG totally awesome totally BLOW our mind which made me really transform the way i was in the start and how i become in the end after reading the last chapter!
I cant believe that i cant wait for the second!Its funny how different feelings i had in the start and how i am now!
mrvm's review against another edition
4.0
There wasn't really any dating going on but this book was very funny, and didn't take itself too seriously.
bellatora's review against another edition
3.0
I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up this book. A Twilight wannabe? A deconstruction of Twilight? It ended up being kind of both.
The beginning was good. Regular farm girl Jessica is followed around by a hot guy who keeps staring at her and acting strangely. Her reaction? The very realistic, "Okay, he's hot, but OHMYGODCREEEEPY. STOP STALKING ME!" I liked that. I liked that she was presented as kind of the anti-Bella.
The guy is vampire Lucius. First off, Lucius as a name was all well and good in the Roman Empire but now it reminds me of (1) Harry Potter and gross Malfoy senior and (2) the word "luscious" and not in a hot way, but in a weird, campy way. So, poor name choice Fantaskey. But Lucius (I can't even type that name without giggling...I'm just going to call him "Luc") is totally an a-hole in the beginning. INCREDIBLY arrogant and condescending. And Jessica, in her stronger moments, recognizes that this is completely unattractive and refuses to accept their engagement (because, of course, they are both vampire royalty and were engaged since practically birth. Of course). The great thing about Luc is that he shows actual character growth. Over the course of the book the arrogance fades away and he turns into a decent person. Plus, his letters home are pretty hilarious.
Sadly, Luc's character growth only highlights the fact that Jessica doesn't grow as a character. She gets "stronger" or whatever, but really she just gets obsessed with Luc and kind of dismissive of her human boyfriend. I liked Luc a lot more as the book went on, but kind of liked Jessica less as she turned into a vampire book heroine cliche.
And the story arc in Romania was just dumb. Luc went from being realistically troubled to whiny and angsty (it is very hard to do a Oh noes! I'm doomed by my eeevvvilll nature! very well). And, I'm sorry, but Jessica makes a horrible leader. She REALLY needed to develop more over the book and show some kind of tactical or leadership ability in America (even just being captain of the soccer team or SOMETHING) for me to buy her as a potential vampire queen.
This is not the worst vampire book I've read by far, but it's not the best. It's bad when I like the hero overwhelmingly more than the heroine. I think if Fantaskey had concentrated more on the humor (and Luc's letters show that she has a knack for sarcastic humor) and mined the deconstruction of vampire novel cliches some more, this book could've been much better.
The beginning was good. Regular farm girl Jessica is followed around by a hot guy who keeps staring at her and acting strangely. Her reaction? The very realistic, "Okay, he's hot, but OHMYGODCREEEEPY. STOP STALKING ME!" I liked that. I liked that she was presented as kind of the anti-Bella.
The guy is vampire Lucius. First off, Lucius as a name was all well and good in the Roman Empire but now it reminds me of (1) Harry Potter and gross Malfoy senior and (2) the word "luscious" and not in a hot way, but in a weird, campy way. So, poor name choice Fantaskey. But Lucius (I can't even type that name without giggling...I'm just going to call him "Luc") is totally an a-hole in the beginning. INCREDIBLY arrogant and condescending. And Jessica, in her stronger moments, recognizes that this is completely unattractive and refuses to accept their engagement (because, of course, they are both vampire royalty and were engaged since practically birth. Of course). The great thing about Luc is that he shows actual character growth. Over the course of the book the arrogance fades away and he turns into a decent person. Plus, his letters home are pretty hilarious.
Sadly, Luc's character growth only highlights the fact that Jessica doesn't grow as a character. She gets "stronger" or whatever, but really she just gets obsessed with Luc and kind of dismissive of her human boyfriend. I liked Luc a lot more as the book went on, but kind of liked Jessica less as she turned into a vampire book heroine cliche.
And the story arc in Romania was just dumb. Luc went from being realistically troubled to whiny and angsty (it is very hard to do a Oh noes! I'm doomed by my eeevvvilll nature! very well). And, I'm sorry, but Jessica makes a horrible leader. She REALLY needed to develop more over the book and show some kind of tactical or leadership ability in America (even just being captain of the soccer team or SOMETHING) for me to buy her as a potential vampire queen.
This is not the worst vampire book I've read by far, but it's not the best. It's bad when I like the hero overwhelmingly more than the heroine. I think if Fantaskey had concentrated more on the humor (and Luc's letters show that she has a knack for sarcastic humor) and mined the deconstruction of vampire novel cliches some more, this book could've been much better.
rachelreadwhat's review against another edition
3.0
I don't know. I really wanted to like this, but the main characters just weren't that likable.
annyeongnica's review against another edition
2.0
So yeah, finally finished this.
Sometimes, I really have a hard time determining whether I can't stop reading because the book is that good or if I just was deprived for too long of my need to quench my thirst for reading fiction.
I think it's the latter this time, because this book wasn't really that good.
Okay, so I was a bit annoyed with our heroine, Jessica, just because her "smartness" is so in the face. It just kept on irking me that she repeats how she likes rational things, rational ideas, hence she is a rational person. This is one of those annoying moments when the author fails to show, and instead, tells. So why would I believe that Jessica is this rational person if it only shows when she's thinking about math (and aside from it being rubbed into my face).
As Lucius told Frank, this would have been more effective if it was even the littlest bit subtle.
But it wasn't.
So yeah.
And this wasn't a very good novel, but I gotta say that I kind of enjoyed reading it because I needed that happy ending right now. (And I liked how the author kept on infuriatingly teasing me by not making the stars align until the last moment. It was actually kind of fun to know that the story is almost there but not quite yet, and you are repeatedly brought to the brink but never tossed all the way over the edge until the last page.)
Sometimes, I really have a hard time determining whether I can't stop reading because the book is that good or if I just was deprived for too long of my need to quench my thirst for reading fiction.
I think it's the latter this time, because this book wasn't really that good.
Okay, so I was a bit annoyed with our heroine, Jessica, just because her "smartness" is so in the face. It just kept on irking me that she repeats how she likes rational things, rational ideas, hence she is a rational person. This is one of those annoying moments when the author fails to show, and instead, tells. So why would I believe that Jessica is this rational person if it only shows when she's thinking about math (and aside from it being rubbed into my face).
As Lucius told Frank, this would have been more effective if it was even the littlest bit subtle.
But it wasn't.
So yeah.
And this wasn't a very good novel, but I gotta say that I kind of enjoyed reading it because I needed that happy ending right now. (And I liked how the author kept on infuriatingly teasing me by not making the stars align until the last moment. It was actually kind of fun to know that the story is almost there but not quite yet, and you are repeatedly brought to the brink but never tossed all the way over the edge until the last page.)
bosicbyi's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this but agree that the title did not match the book. The title makes it seem like this would be a fun fluffy book, but it wasnt. I still enjoyed this either way and will look for more from this author
deannaksmith's review against another edition
5.0
This was one of the best books that I have read in quite a while. I read it in one sitting, and I cannot wait for the second one. Soooo good.