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Amaranth (Resistance, #1)

Rachael Wade

Why we're reading this: Love, adventure and ---Vampires! A B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree.
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Aug 13, 2011 ILoveBooks rated it it was amazing

This book was far from "just another vampire book." Camille is the mail character and tends to get into bad relationships...she dreams of finding that one perfect relationship. When Gavin steps into her life, she just might have a chance. Her last relationship was horrible, filled with abuse. She is still recovering...and he is still after her. She wants to believe Gavin could be her special someone, but Gavin has a shadowy past.

The story does contain that girl meets vampire and they have the p ...more

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Nov 16, 2011 Nicole rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal, paranormal-romance, vampire, young-adult, own, sexy, for-review, uf, read-it-and-reap

First we have Camille who is a Seattle college student in Paris escaping for her birthday to a long awaited dream to visit Paris. A chance meeting and cue sexy Gavin, however Camille is in no shape to be starting a relationship and this meeting is a brief intriguing encounter. Camille has an abusive boyfriend back in Seattle…

Next chapter we skip ahead 2 years to Camille working in a small Louisiana town and attending school. After returning home from Paris she finally got wise and ditched th First we have Camille who is a Seattle college student in Paris escaping for her birthday to a long awaited dream to visit Paris. A chance meeting and cue sexy Gavin, however Camille is in no shape to be starting a relationship and this meeting is a brief intriguing encounter. Camille has an abusive boyfriend back in Seattle…

Next chapter we skip ahead 2 years to Camille working in a small Louisiana town and attending school. After returning home from Paris she finally got wise and ditched the scum. Now here is the aspect about the book that I didn’t care for at all… we find Camille again in an abusive relationship. I have seen with emotional, verbal, and physical abuse most of my life, knowing and loving a victim of this type of abuse I know firsthand the emotional fall out. I love that the author is bringing this up as I know lots of teenagers struggle with body image and self-confidence however this is a very tricky topic to write about in a young adult/adult romance novel. I think the character or her best friend needs to have a bit more knowledge on how to deal with a victim. In NO WAY am I saying the author condones or glorifies the subject, in any case I didn’t feel it captures enough outrage that this is going on… make sense? I hope so…

Then we are taken on a Journey of discovery with Camille as she breaks up with scum #2 and a whirlwind romance with the supernaturally sexy Gavin. Camille has to navigate through the discovery that vampires exist and that some are closer than she realized.

Now here is the other issue I have with the book, I didn’t connect with the characters or understand some of their actions. I didn’t get emotionally involved with the characters, but this could be quickly solved with an edit. Also this is the first in the series so I am extremely interested in what book 2 will bring in April.
With all that being said I would still recommend this series, the world is unique and vampires are a bit different, not allot but enough.

I would recommend mothers read this with their older daughters; it is wildly entertaining and a chance to talk about a deeper topic.
Rating - 3.5 Stars

P.S. I found this AMAZING looking model named Arthur Keller and I just couldn’t stop finding amazing pictures of him. The even better thing about sexy Gavin was he has a couple looks the casual look and the dressed to kill look, soooooo I have to show you both! Plus I happen to have found both looks! Enjoy…

For the rest of the pics go to my blog shareAread ...more

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Shelves: kindle-wishlist, book-1, i-have-book-2

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