Darkness Becomes Her (Gods & Monsters, #1) in Once Upon a Twilight blog

Feb 02, 2011 Jodie rated it it was amazing

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This book never really stuck out and made me really want to read it, it doesn’t have my sort of cover and the blurb doesn’t grab my attention a lot but this book is amazing. I feel rather lucky this year because the amount of amazing books l have read already! I have no idea how l will choose my top ten of 2011. Be a lot harder than the top 10 for 2010!
Anyway on to my thoughts.
This book pretty much has something going on from the beginning, the main story line is i http://www.booksforcompany.com/

This book never really stuck out and made me really want to read it, it doesn’t have my sort of cover and the blurb doesn’t grab my attention a lot but this book is amazing. I feel rather lucky this year because the amount of amazing books l have read already! I have no idea how l will choose my top ten of 2011. Be a lot harder than the top 10 for 2010!
Anyway on to my thoughts.
This book pretty much has something going on from the beginning, the main story line is introduced within the first 30 or so pages. This is good but l did feel one thing happened a bit too fast and l was like “would it really happen that quick?”
In fact there were a few scenes where l was thinking “what who’s that character again? Are they related to them or them? Are they good? Evil?” l just got a bit confused which ruined some scenes for me which could have been good and more gripping. Most of the time my confusion was answered by Kelly as she did well to go over things but there are a lot of characters. When a story has a lot of characters you can sometimes struggle to get to know them enough but Kelly a few main characters so you could grow a bond with them.
Ari is a character that has had a few problems in life and wants to try and put to rest some of them. Sometimes she annoys me a bit with what l felt was overreacting in some cases, being a really angry sort of person and being a wimp in some ways but then really strong with other things. For example in one scene l would of been really scared but she wasn’t and then in a scene a less big thing is happening and she is scared! Saying that l think Kelly did an amazing job of putting forward Ari’s feelings to the readers and her thoughts. It really made her feel real.
One of the only ‘negative’ thing l thought about Darkness Becomes Her while reading this was totally random sentences. E.g. - ‘l could look at him forever. But there was something he would never ever know’. L can see how this makes sense but l think it just needs to be explained a little bit more, like what she’s feeling when looking at him.
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Jan 21, 2011 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

I love mythology, and any book that features mythology in it is an easy sell for me. Darkness Become Her definitely falls in that category and for good reason. Keaton offers readers a world filled with otherworldly creatures in a setting that is almost realistic. DBH offers vampires, witches, mythological Gods, and so much more to liven up New 2. New 2 is what is left of New Orleans after Katrina.

Ari is an amazing heroine and I found myself cheering her along as she journeyed into New 2, not kno ...more

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