by Abigail Gibbs
Paperback, 549 pages
Published October 11th 2012 by Harper Voyager
meet Violet Lee - a vegetarian girl with violet eyes...
meet Kaspar Varn - a vampire guy, who happens a royal heir of vamperic kingdom... called the Varns... who smirks a lot... i said again... a lot... XD
everything we (as least for me) know about vamperic world based on Twilight Saga will changed completely...
here... vampires really can control their appetite for blood, if they want, they can drink human blood from a human without killing her/him...
if a human replace her/his blood half-half, s/he becomes a vampire
if a human replace her/his blood with just a quarter with vamperic blood, s/he becomes a dhampir... a human with a better sense and everything... more enhance capabilities...
in this story, human is not better than animal according to the other dimension creatures...
there are 9 dimensions, our world is the first dimension, each dimension has its own inhabitants... including human in every dimension, but with different understanding among creatures...
such as, since the story just mentioning the first and second dimension, in the second dimension, human are willing even begging to be sucked by a vampire (have no idea the reasons, not really recall them)...
the story is simple with kind of details which supposed to help in building the story but i guess, however they kind of distracting... and too much…
what i got, the bigger picture is there is an anxiety between human and vampire... and back a thousand years a go there was prophecy of heroines saying there will be nine dark heroines who will safe the world...
i don't know if there is connection between each dimensions, i mean if something happens in the first dimension will affect the second dimension and so on or what... somehow, the prophecy is a big deal for every one, ones who didn't believe and ones who did believe... now that the prophecy is beginning to coming true... then everybody busy on taking part of it...
the smaller picture is about Violet, a human which soon should turn to vampire, who first got kidnapped by a handsome vampire, who first hate him with all there is to hate, but slowly but sure, fall head over heels in love with him... not much of surprise in that part right? Stockholm Syndrome is it?
the surprise is... tttaadddaaa... i don't want to spoil... but you can guess from the tittle, right? right?
anyway... the complication arise when the girl father is actually the bad guy here, but we cannot say that because… he's the father after all...
so, there's a lot of emotions on that part also, which eventually solved with not much efforts, if i must say...
actually, what bother me so much... there's so much (supposed to be) tensions... but actually really nothing happen, or to tell? would the author miss to extravagant the event? and the only i got was anti-climax?? i have no idea...
maybe the problem is my English... or maybe she (the author) was too busy building her story with so much details (even another hot guy with a jealous soon to be girl friend, who was relatif to the first handsome guy)... aarrgghhh... i didn't recall the name... who is whom... so many people, with many relationships... too many people with not clear role in the story…
on the cover, there's a sticker that said "The sexiest romance you'll read this year"… i don't think so, maybe the author's trying but not succeed… she even tried to insert hardcore in the story that i don't really get the point, was she trying to give picture of how sex-life in the vamperic world?
but... one thing i admire, the author kind of already have a really good job with the idea of the story, though building and telling are completely different matter...
therefore i gave it 3 stars for the effort :D
wants to know what wiki said about the book? check this out.
if you ask me, why i'm reading the book anyway? because... the Indonesian translated book's cover is so gorgeous... here it is:
and from a friend, i learned that the story's written on wattpad, i searched for it and read it there, but only part of it, since the author already took the rest of the story out, since it's published... then i looked for the book, fortunately i got it on bargain price... i continued reading what i've left on wattpad, but it seemed quite different... then i decided to re-read it from the beginning... and i guess, the details were indeed different, there're parts which taken out from the story on wattpad.
i don't really recommend the book, but if you really into Twilight Saga, then this story is for you... ;-)
and now, that i must really remember "Don't judge the book by it's cover"... never! XD
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