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I couldn't stand this book and I honestly thought I would love it. Its got a mouthy, sarcastic heroine which I'm always down for and a bad to the bone bad boy, check and check. But yet it was just so wrong. This girl is kidnapped and while yes the very first day she makes an attempt to escape but thats it. Vampires such as Lyla and Fabian start acting nice towards her and she just accepts it and does what they all tell her to like a good little hostage. And my main problem with this is that she does this without them redeeming themselves in any way really. They don't ever express sorrow or guilt for keeping her there. At one point she gets asked what her plans were for college if she, you know, hadn't been kidnapped by them. And she just answers them like that's completely normal and matter of fact and doesn't blame them at all for the fact that this part of her life will never happen.
And now moving on to the love interest... Kasper. There is nothing redeemable about him, at all. But you can read plenty of the reviews talking about that. One of the very many things that bothered me is how this heroine, a vegetarian, so quickly excepts him killing for blood even when they have outlined all the alternatives to this that doesn't involve killing anyone
SPOILER* At the fair Kasper kills a random innocent young girl and she even claims that it doesn't bother her. I don't get how that makes sense?
And then we have the weird love triangle and the bestie turned enemy. Both Fabian and Lyla seem to have drastic changes in personality solely to add more drama to plot.
And what was up with all Violet's inner monologue about the servants its like for the first couple days she really liked them and didn't like how they were treated but then nothing came of that and she (or rather the author) just completely forgot about them.
And lastly, because I have to end this at some point, I believe a teenage girl would care just a titch more about never seeing her family again. She only thinks about her dad because he's directly involved in the plot but what about her mother? And her sick little sister? She doesn't even entertain the idea when in London to sneak away to see her little sister.
Basically the most unrealistic parts of this Book are not the paranormal but everything else.


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Dinner with a Vampire The Dark Heroine Abigail Gibbs 9780007503674 Books Reviews

I have contradicting feelings for this book. First off, would i recommend this book? Yes and no. For the price i paid...no. If it was $1.99 or less for the kindle version, yes.

I really liked the story line but I disliked the way the relationship with Violet, Kasper, and Fabian went. I felt like it was shallow and not explained or elaborated on very well. There were parts that confused me about the characters development and felt a bit immature at the beginning.
There were times I wish the author went into more detail or tried to develop the characters a bit better in the first half of the book, rather than having a long description of the house or a boulder. (There was a bunch of that happening...unneeded description).

I do feel like the book got better as it went on. The point was probably when the group went hunting and included Violet. I'm not saying I didn't like the book before that point, there were just parts that made me cringe because it was a bit...off.

Considering this is a new writer, I feel like she got better as she went and I really did enjoy where the book was going. I would definitely read more books in this series in the hope that the writer continued to get better.
I could barely get through it. The writing was dry, unimaginative, and juvenile. There were grammatical errors. The characters had all the allure and dimension of a sheet of copy paper. The "love story" was supposed to come across as dark and edgy but a the threat of violence to the girl made it sound less like a gothic horror and more like a story of emotional abuse.
It's hard to know where to start. The characters were all unlikeable, and the plotting was ridiculous. Trapped! Well, until it was time for a day trip to London! Befriended.. until both friends characters completely altered (this felt like a high school pleaser though). Our heroine witnesses murders and isn't put off. At all. She claims to have been won over by her stay with her captors, but it's hard to imagine by what, as they all uniformly mistreat her. She makes no attempts to escape beyond the wildly stupid initial one, does no research in the library she has access to, attempts to hash no plots with the help. Basically she lazes about and sleeps. I suspected in fact that this itself must be what's won her loyalty. The object of her romantic interest is an insipid creep who never once does anything intelligent or difficult, including not standing up for her when she's about to be murdered - after he claims he loves her. And rather than cleverly working to get what he wants, at one point he wails like a baby to the entire leadership of the community. Seriously embarrassing. If I were his father and had a kingdom to think about, I think I'd quietly dispose of him. There's also a 'fact' our heroine is trying to hide (which is basically a hunch she has but is treated like fact by all. It turns out to be true, but still, without any backing unti the very end). Several characters in the story say "Boy if I knew about 'fact', I would throttle the nearest heroine!", and yet she can't come up with a good answer later when asked why she didn't reveal 'fact' earlier. She bizarrely protects a would-be killer to try to hide her knowledge of another piece of information, which it's already been revealed she knows. It seems the only reason to do this is so that no one would suspect him until too late. A clumsy plot device. The whole thing just felt juvenile. I kept reading thinking surely the author would reveal some redeeming characteristic of our hero. But no.
I couldn't stand this book and I honestly thought I would love it. Its got a mouthy, sarcastic heroine which I'm always down for and a bad to the bone bad boy, check and check. But yet it was just so wrong. This girl is kidnapped and while yes the very first day she makes an attempt to escape but thats it. Vampires such as Lyla and Fabian start acting nice towards her and she just accepts it and does what they all tell her to like a good little hostage. And my main problem with this is that she does this without them redeeming themselves in any way really. They don't ever express sorrow or guilt for keeping her there. At one point she gets asked what her plans were for college if she, you know, hadn't been kidnapped by them. And she just answers them like that's completely normal and matter of fact and doesn't blame them at all for the fact that this part of her life will never happen.
And now moving on to the love interest... Kasper. There is nothing redeemable about him, at all. But you can read plenty of the reviews talking about that. One of the very many things that bothered me is how this heroine, a vegetarian, so quickly excepts him killing for blood even when they have outlined all the alternatives to this that doesn't involve killing anyone
SPOILER* At the fair Kasper kills a random innocent young girl and she even claims that it doesn't bother her. I don't get how that makes sense?
And then we have the weird love triangle and the bestie turned enemy. Both Fabian and Lyla seem to have drastic changes in personality solely to add more drama to plot.
And what was up with all Violet's inner monologue about the servants its like for the first couple days she really liked them and didn't like how they were treated but then nothing came of that and she (or rather the author) just completely forgot about them.
And lastly, because I have to end this at some point, I believe a teenage girl would care just a titch more about never seeing her family again. She only thinks about her dad because he's directly involved in the plot but what about her mother? And her sick little sister? She doesn't even entertain the idea when in London to sneak away to see her little sister.
Basically the most unrealistic parts of this Book are not the paranormal but everything else.