bookwyrm25's Reviews (219)

The last half hour just made me so extremely mad it took away a whole star.

Who does Slate think she is to act like that thinking that maybe it wasn't her paladin's fault that a literal demon possessed Brenner? The whole "I hate you now" while he suffered in silence put me way off and pissed me the hell off.

What a note to end on! The rest of the book was fantastic until that bull crap.

It's just annoying that he was planning on leaving at the end of the book, but was so selfish to lead her to believing he wasn't going to until he did. I get the self-sacrifice bull crap of his character, but give me a break. Otherwise I found it very interesting to hear all from his side through the book. I read as a companion to my Twilight re-read. It was just a bit better than the original itself in my opinion. More mature, more details to it from the vampire side.

Rated and re-read for nostalgia purposes. I was 12 when I first read Twilight, you can't blame a 12 year old for having this kind of taste in literature. The nostalgia helped me power through it. Not sure I'll move on to New Moon though, I remember hating that one.

I had to force myself to not DNF this one unfortunately, and it put me in a reading slump. It was like reading air - no substance. I love a good cheesy novel but this wasn’t even cheesy. Just a girl afraid to turn 30 for whatever sexist reason and a womanizer gone “straight.” Tale as old as time and just as boring. 

Very disappointing. 

Very different than the film that came out last year. Very good book. Much better than the movie in my opinion actually.

Wow. I regret ever waiting so long to pick up this book after it was recommended to me by a reddit thread that claimed this book was like The September House (which is one of my all time favorite books).

This is a dark and enthralling tale of trying to grow up and how to survive as an adult when your mom is abusive and your father is a loving psychopath. I know deep in my heart if I had been raised as Vera had I would have gone the same route, which made it all even more captivating as the story progressed. I only wish there was more time with Vera and her father before he got arrested, or even after.

I want to know what those damn letters said (Fuck you Duvall).

As someone who grew up in an environment that wasn't the best, I understood Vera and her motivations and her choices all completely. This story is darkly beautiful and I highly recommend it.

Though I must say of course I don't condone any actions in this book, even by the main character, I can't say that it made the story any less breathtakingly amazing for me despite it being horrifically sad in so many ways.

And to Daphne, Vera's "mother"... I don't care what you went through in life (even though you're a fictional character), nobody could ever make me like you. You deserved worse. 

You’ll need a neck brace after reading this, because the emotional back and forth is neck breaking.  *I didn’t realize it was lack of communication trope* The first 271 pages is a bunch of prolonged emotional edging and the  last 200 pages are them being together, then not, then together “for sure” then not then together again, etc. it was irritating. The first 1/2 of the book was good, the middle was meh, and the last 1/4 was pretty infuriating. 2.75 stars because it was just ok. Ok to break up in between more serious and in depth books because the plot of this book was nonexistent and more of just a… cozy? Time? I’m iffy about this book all in all