This book, what can I say? This book was fantastic, among the many other books in this series. I am divulged in with this series and it keeps me hanging onto every sentence and cliff hanger. It certainly is not the best book in the series but is still of high quality for any YA with a liking for horror.

In the seventh book of this series, not long into his years as a Prince, Darren is once again visited by Desmond Tiny (the creator of vampires and Little People). He explains that the three hunters must find and hunt down the Vampaneze Lord if they have any hopes to win the war. He announces that two of them are Darren and Mr. Crepsley, but the third one they must find on their way. The hunters are told by Mr. Tiny that they will cross paths with the Lord of the Vampaneze four times throughout their quest, and have only those four chances to destroy him.

I thought that concept was very intriguing and interesting, and as the book went on the plot digressed I found myself loving it more and more. Especially one of the characters in there took my favouritism.

At the end of the last book I was on the edge, such a cliffhanger, Shan certainly knows how to keep his readers interested.These books just keeps surprising me with such huge damn cliffhangers! An addicting story that wont let you go until you finish them all. Don't open this book unless you're ready to finish it within the hour, which I did nevertheless.

With the first 4 books, I found the beginnings always quite slow due to the nature of the narrative. But due to the tournament things were more paced which made it easier to get through! Definitely my favourite one so far, I even got emotional with Cedric which I didn't expect.
I also loved how they included Dobby, I love that house elf so damn much. I enjoyed Crouch's retelling of how everything went down, as in the film it was a bit ambiguous.
Thoroughly enjoyed and can't wait to read the next one.

At the beginning I found it slow and a little mundane, but what I didn’t realise about this book is not the amount of action but what was happening. I’m now thoroughly invested in Thorn, Ophelia and how their story will continue in the next novel.

Absolutely beautiful. Heart renching and melancholy. But so so beautiful.

So so so good! It was dark and twisted and I devoured it within an hour! I’m going to read this again and again because each story is horrifying terrific.

Reread in January 2029

Throughout this novel I have enjoyed the style of writing and how innovative the layout of the narrative was; this made the character building of our protagonist interesting and easily to delve into without getting bored.

The first half of the novel was mainly building up a sense of character of Ursula, showing her difference to young girls of that time period. I particularly loved the bond between Ursula and her father, demonstrating the love and compassion of Ursula (as that at times may be hard to see). At some points I didn't really get along with Ursula's character, probably due to her strong-willed nature her father built up in her childhood. But once I looked past that and when Crowhurst expanded the narrative I felt a connection to Ursula, she was just a young girl being forced into something she knew nothing about.

I found all the characters diverse and interesting. I definitely feel this novel is about the character since thinking about it, not a lot happens in terms of narratives:
Ursula is born.
She is taught by her modern minded father.
Mother is cold.
Ursula writes plays for her friends.
She develops a crush on a friend's cousin, the cousin moves away not after kissing her and giving her a 'sweetheart gift'.
Ursula is taught some more.
She's introduced to arranged marriage.
She gets married, lives unhappily until she goes to London with her husband and bumps into her girlhood crush.
They have an affair and elope. Then the bastard dumps her with no money and doesn't have the guts to tell her himself.
Ursula then gets into acting to pay the bills, finds out shes pregnant, carries on acting, gives birth and sends the child to a friend who she visits often.

That's in a nutshell the book. But between those plot points holds a narrative of humour, wit, frustration - essentially Ursula's inner monologue. The ending for me was a little disappointing - I felt with the magnitude of Ursula's story the ended should've been more phenomenal. Though, that's not how life works. I guess it imitates life, a life that goes well. She got what she always wanted - to be a successful play write - but got some bumps and bruises along the way. The letter from his little sister really topped the cake for me - it not only made a great conclusion to the novel but had some sort of closure for Ursula as to why her mother never answered her letters and her isolation from her family.

All in all, a lovely read I would recommend to anyone.