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A review by whimsically_roberta
Bei Anbruch der Dunkelheit: Midnight Kiss - Band 2 by Shannon Drake
2.0
Well, that was really terrible. What in the hell? I read the first book in the series last year, and remember enjoying it well enough. And this one starts in Scotland! And goes to New Orleans! Vampires! Sounds promising! **very minor spoilers to follow**
I lost count of all the many ridiculous plot holes and inconsistencies in this book. I was enjoying it, despite its many flaws, up until about 2/3 through the book, at which point my patience ran out. Because it got stupid AND boring. I skimmed the last quarter of the book — why did I even bother? I literally finished the book tossed it aside, and told my husband, “Well, that was stupid. And terrible.”
Remember in the Princess Bride, when the dude is just mostly dead? Well, this reminded me of that, only not funny. A vampire bite is always deadly!! Well, just mostly deadly. Sometimes not at all. You always turn if your bitten!! Well, except when they just bite a little bit. Then you’re probably ok? What is their unit of measurement for bitten badly, or not so badly? If they feed from you, you’re definitely their slaves!! Sometimes. The vampire loves the sweet taste of child’s blood!!!! But he’ll pass on an easy meal if the reader might get mad at him for snacking on babies. He’ll even put them in their cribs (P.S. these “babies” are 3 years old) before taking just a little blood from their mom. But he won’t bite her “too bad”. Just the little bit bad. She’ll be ok. And yet the same vampire will tear non-main characters limb from literal limb. Because we aren’t attached to them, so it’s ok. They’re the red shirts. Sure. Ok.
And the TSTL moments are plentiful. And then somehow, a basic boring novel writer magically becomes a computer hacker for a minute. Out of the blue. And she’s friends with the heroine, but then for no apparent reason, she’s suddenly “that pesky friend”. Huh? And EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE BOOK MAGICALLY ENDS UP IN SCOTLAND for the final anti-climactic scene. Whaaaat? How? Why? WHY?!
I could go on. And on. But I won’t. I am soooo officially done with this series it’s not even funny.
I lost count of all the many ridiculous plot holes and inconsistencies in this book. I was enjoying it, despite its many flaws, up until about 2/3 through the book, at which point my patience ran out. Because it got stupid AND boring. I skimmed the last quarter of the book — why did I even bother? I literally finished the book tossed it aside, and told my husband, “Well, that was stupid. And terrible.”
Remember in the Princess Bride, when the dude is just mostly dead? Well, this reminded me of that, only not funny. A vampire bite is always deadly!! Well, just mostly deadly. Sometimes not at all. You always turn if your bitten!! Well, except when they just bite a little bit. Then you’re probably ok? What is their unit of measurement for bitten badly, or not so badly? If they feed from you, you’re definitely their slaves!! Sometimes. The vampire loves the sweet taste of child’s blood!!!! But he’ll pass on an easy meal if the reader might get mad at him for snacking on babies. He’ll even put them in their cribs (P.S. these “babies” are 3 years old) before taking just a little blood from their mom. But he won’t bite her “too bad”. Just the little bit bad. She’ll be ok. And yet the same vampire will tear non-main characters limb from literal limb. Because we aren’t attached to them, so it’s ok. They’re the red shirts. Sure. Ok.
And the TSTL moments are plentiful. And then somehow, a basic boring novel writer magically becomes a computer hacker for a minute. Out of the blue. And she’s friends with the heroine, but then for no apparent reason, she’s suddenly “that pesky friend”. Huh? And EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE BOOK MAGICALLY ENDS UP IN SCOTLAND for the final anti-climactic scene. Whaaaat? How? Why? WHY?!
I could go on. And on. But I won’t. I am soooo officially done with this series it’s not even funny.