Love Never Dies - Christina Dodd Shockingly emotional for such a short story.

This was rather short, 140 pages. There isn't any smut or gore in this one. I was really hoping to enjoy this more than I did.

 

The writing feels choppy, the dialogue is under developed and feels lacking, and so many sentences have the same words...

 

For the next two weeks...

 

and...

 

The next week...

 

This felt like a first draft that needs tweaked. There aren't too many clean vampire romances. Again, I really wanted this to be great. I may even be too forgiving with my rating.

 

I won this in a contest somewhere on the internet. 

I received a copy from Netgalley.

 

After 36% I am giving up. The bit on the blurb that said 'For fans of Stephanie Meyer and Lauren Kate' both of whom I very much enjoy piqued my interest. It sounded interesting and the cover was lovely. I did not enjoy this book at all. The main character is annoying and came across at least to me as very immature and Tristan came across as so perfect it was unbelievable it was getting beyond annoying. The plot was didn't really hold my attention and I found myself rolling my eyes a lot to the point where now I have no interest in finishing the book.

 

So another one for the Did Not Finish list.

 

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to view this title. Not for me.

That tagline should have been my first warning. The crazily inaccurate comparison to Twilight the second.

Alas, what to say about this book. Not much good, that’s for sure. The plotline was weak at best and had crazy detours that added nothing but high school drama to the mix. The characters were one dimensional, not to mention that all of the Lost Boys were pretty much flawless, gorgeous male specimens. I could never even tell them apart. They mostly operated as a mass instead of individual beings – the were The Band, unfailingly supportive, uniformly bland.

Worst of all, the writing. It’s reflected in everything else how incredibly childish it is. And those exclamation marks! Were a little bit abused! OMG!

It wasn’t a total travesty. It was lightly entertaining, occasionally funny. Yet this was not enough to save it as a whole. It feels more like a rough first draft, unpolished. And quite frankly, I didn’t feel like it brought anything new.

There’s more, though: it’s a series.

***ARC received through Netgalley***

review to come