When i picked up this book, i was expecting something completly different. I expected it to be a superatural romance book. This book disappointed me. Frankly i did not like it in any sense. It is not a book that i would recommend or read again.
Here are the reasons why:
1. I didn't like the characters... AT ALL!!!! The story is kind of really cold hearted. The father, an alcoholic who lost everything, seemed sort of over the extreame. I mean he broke the law, but that wasn't all. He decideds to lay around all say while his wife and daughters had to give up so much. He was supposed to be finding a job, but instead he decided to gamble away the money that the wife made when she sold, basically everything.
I didn't like the wife either. She was also cold hearted. Why would she speak to her daughter like that? Granted, the daughter, Ames, had an attitude, but that was easily explained because she's been the rich spoiled princess her whole life, until that one particular moment when she had to give up everything. I guess the wife's behavior would have been explained because of the stress that her stupid husband's actions.
Onward with the people i didn't like at all. I didn't like the main character, Ames. She gave herself up way too easily to Marc. I didn't get the fact that every time she disobeyed or felt power, the "dark song" sang out to her. There was no dark song! I don't recall a description of what it sounded like. I just don't get the dark song.
I didn't like Marc. I hated his character the most. Killing Ames's parents so they could run away??? What kind of crap is that?! They could have just ran away, if he really loved her... frankly i refuse to believe that he loved her in any sense. Why would you hurt someone, force them into sex, and try to kill their parents if you really loved them??? Huh? I believe that he was USING HER! For the excitment that he got whenever he was with her. He wasn't trying to protect her. He didn't have her best interests in mind. Oh, and also... WHAT KIND OF PERSON rapes a girl and then treatens the parents (so they would not take him to court) by dognapping their dog and putting 15 freaking bullet holes through the dog??? If those people just STEPPED UP! and not wimp out by dropping the charges, who knows how many people/girls would have been saved from his treacherous grasps!!!
Enough about people that i hated. I actually thought some of the characters were ok, but not good enough to be called good. I thought that Chrissy and Em were pretty ok people. Chrissy was pretty innocent. Em showed readers that the influence of a person you love can make a person change.
2. I didn't like the story line. I felt everything was very rushed. It felt like there wasn't much detail and the book was only covering the surface of it all. I think the author could have gone into more details about everything. The events just passed by each other. There was no time to actually let things sink in. I didn't realize that Marc ment to kill Ames' parents until Ames actually said so herself.
3. The cover didn't fit the book. I usually pick books by their covers and summaries. I know that's bad, but most times the book sort of matches the book cover.... (not saying this applies to every book, but normally it does.... at least to the first book in the series) I expected great things from this book! It was just huge dissappointment!
4. The ending was a disater! I'm glad that the police came up with a plan to catch Marc before he could kill the parents. BUT the last lines of the book. It was just so weird and i didn't think it fit the book at all. I just expected more out of it, so it was so disappointing to me/
Yea... just gonna end it there... don't.... want.... to..... type..... any.... more......
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