Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Recommend: No
Summary:
Snow White is living in our modern world in Salem. She has her cat Gatsby and is best friends with 7 guys. Resembling the fairy-tale Snow White, with her pale skin and dark hair, she is being forever teased, and when she meets dashing Chase Charming, he understands her pain.
Just before she turns 16, she falls unconscious, only to wake-up changed. Snow is no longer human, but also not a full vampire. She was bitten by The Hunter who was sent to change her into a revenant.
Just before she turns 16, she falls unconscious, only to wake-up changed. Snow is no longer human, but also not a full vampire. She was bitten by The Hunter who was sent to change her into a revenant.
My Thoughts:
Ohhhhhhh dear. I was quite excited to read this as I really love the modern takes on fairy-tales and sadly I've to admit that whilst I completed the first novella, I failed to finish the volume of them- which is quite rare for me.To kick this off-
- Insta-Love. My pet hate so I'll say no more.
- Girl character that doesn't realise everyone likes her and how pretty she is.
- Has 7 gorgeous guys as best friends, who all fancy her, but she's clueless.
- Her best friend is sooooo much prettier than her and into makeup etc.
These things are all present quite early on which just put me in a bad mood with the novel before it even had a chance. I DESPISE these aspects in YA novels- they're in everything and not interesting or endearing. Just no! Please authors- STOP!
As I didn't complete this I've no idea how great it ended up being but the whole vampire/fantasy stuff started off pretty suddenly. It seemed bearable to begin with and I was looking forward to how the vampire story would be integrated into everything... Didn't expect it to hit like a 12 tonne freight lorry.
It was made worse by everyone's reactions to it; those who knew and those who'd no idea and how "special" Snow was meant to be.
The writing was all over the place as if words were thrown on a page to fill space. Describing an action like the following:
"He grabbed a set of keys off a hook on the wall that said, coincidentally, KEYS."Irrelevant.
Random actions of romance or flirtation thrown in to "hint" at feelings:
"Pressing me closer, he said, 'You aren't always going to think of me as a brother. Someday, Snow. You'll see me the way I see you."
Just no. Not even going to begin with the punctuation but no guy would ever say that to a girl with no prompting and Snow must be so thick if she can't comprehend what he means. It all just appeared fake and as if written by a clueless child trying their hand at writing.
