“Sometimes I thought of us as a pair of damaged bookends. We both had our flaws but we belonged together even if there was always something between us, keeping us apart.”
Book-related quotes always buy me over. So there’s that.
The cover is…uhm not my cup of tea. I like to imagine the characters myself, and the half faces ruined that for me, and now they’re stuck in my head!
Sarah lives with her uncle and heals animals, imps and other magical beings called ‘The People’. One night she goes to a party and meets a vampire. Everything goes wrong from there. Stay tuned!
Sarah is a special snowflake, A VERY SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE, as it will turn out. And she acts like it. I mean, yeah, she’s kind and compassionate and heals animals, tries to help everyone (and gets in a mess, because that’s what happens when you don’t think before you act) while being a good friend and a human being, which is great. BUT, like I said, she’s a special snowflake; every boy/werewolf/vampire/mohiri is attracted to her, every girl hates her and is insanely jealous of her. She likes classic rock music and knows who Janis Joplin is, while the other girls squeak and squeal and love Backstreetboys… She’s also, obviously, a tom boy and totally not aware of the boys’ attention. I’m sorry but this is getting old, this hatred and aversion from ‘girly’ traits. The explanation in the end as to WHY all the boys like her and all the girls hate her, doesn’t completely absolve this trait, since like I mentioned, in her eyes, the other girls only think about hot boys (while Sarah is of course, totally oblivious of them and of her affect on them) and act nasty towards her because of it.
I did like the fact that even though she has a Mohiri (half-demon vampire hunters) bad-ass bodyguards, two werewolf friends and a best friend in the form of a troll, she can stand for herself, and doesn’t (well…usefully that is) need saving. You go, snowflake!
The writing was nice and flawing, and the plot was ok, that is, except for the plot holes… For example; her healing doesn’t work on humans so she can’t heal her wheel-chaired uncle. BUT, there is a potent spoilery thingy that can cure even cancer and Alzheimer’s and prolong life. WHY in the name of all the faeries didn’t Sarah try it on her uncle?! Second major plot hole was in the end, when Sarah got in trouble (again…) and the bad-ass mohiri bodyguard (that I definitely don’t have a crush on) gets to the right place at the right time, even though no one except Sarah and her troll friend knew about that place. How very convenient…
All in all it was a nice read and I’ll continue to the second book in the hopes that it will get better and will have more Nikolas screen time :P