Hmm. I liked this book well enough--probably more than any other vampire series book? (Granted, I'm not a big vampire fan in general--I just try be more familiar with the genre for RA.) I picked this one up because the movie trailer actually looked pretty funny?

The book was not that funny. But it was... I don't know, it felt fresher to me than most of the other vampire series out there. The writing is fine. I like that the emphasis is on Rose and Lissa's friendship rather than the romance (although there's definitely romance involved, and brooding boys aplenty). Rose and Lissa's friendship felt very romantic to me actually and I wish this were actually a teen lesbian vampire romance book? There's some (straight) fairly sexy parts.

The worldbuilding felt a little bananas to me but I guess a lot of people are pretty into all the different sub-categories of vampires or whatever. Also there's magic? Also there's vampire royalty? Also there's a lot of in depth descriptions of dresses? If those things are appeal factors for you, you might like this book. At my library, this hasn't been as popular with the teens as other series, and I'm not sure why. Maybe the movie will boost its popularity? IDK. I'll definitely put this on my list of things to suggest to moms looking for Twilight readalikes.

If you were misled into believing that this was like Mean Girls, well, it's not really :(

I probably won't continue on with this series. I still might see the movie though.