Release Date: May 10th, 2008
Genre: Romance, Paranormal
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 352
Rating:
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Summary:
My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.
Suddenly, my sister, Georgia, and I were orphans. We put our lives into storage and moved to Paris to live with my grandparents. And I knew my shattered heart, my shattered life, would never feel normal again. Then I met Vincent.
Mysterious, sexy, and unnervingly charming, Vincent Delacroix appeared out of nowhere and swept me off my feet. Just like that, I was in danger of losing my heart all over again. But I was ready to let it happen.
Of course, nothing is ever that easy. Because Vincent is no normal human. He has a terrifying destiny, one that puts his life at risk every day. He also has enemies . . . immortal, murderous enemies who are determined to destroy him and all of his kind.
While I'm fighting to piece together the remnants of my life, can I risk putting my heart—as well as my life and my family's—in jeopardy for a chance at love?
Review: Y'all are smart people. And as smart people you have probably noticed that this is the first book review I posted since my
rant. Does that mean that this book is the inspiration for that rant? Oh yes.
That is not to say that this book is the
only reason for for the rant, but it was the final straw. (If you have not yet read
the rant, you should probably do so. Otherwise this review may be a little confusing)
This book had SUCH POTENTIAL! When we were introduced to the paranormal element I gave a little "squee" of delight! I've never read anything like that before. What an amazingly original idea! I was
so excited to read on about how this paranormal phenomenon would affect the characters and the world they lived in.
And then I read 300 pages about teenage angsty romance. BLARGH! Where was this awesome plot I was expecting? Is it buried somewhere under the hormones? I can't see it!
Oh, naturally there was a very dramatic, action-filled ending... which lasted about 20 pages. Other than that it followed this basic formula:
GIRL: "I think I like him. Does he like me?"
BOY: "I like her. I want her to like me."
GIRL: "I'm going to be incredibly nosy and stalker-ish"
DISCOVERS PARANORMAL TWIST!
GIRL: "Oh my! I
want to like you, but now that I know this thing, I dont' know if I can."
BOY: "Please try."
GIRL: "Okay!"
Insert kissing, etc. for some 100-ish pages.
GIRL: "Wait, no! I changed my mind. Goodbye."
Insert 50-100 pages of pining. More stalker-ish stuff on both sides
BOTH: "I can't live without you! Let's be together again."
Insert something evil that threatens their love
BOY: "I'll protect you! I'll kill the evil!"
Runs off to find evil. Evil then promptly finds GIRL.
GIRL: "Oh no! BOY is not here to protect me! What will I do?"
Insert climatic battle. "Good guys" win.
Insert ending where BOY and GIRL despite being different cultures/ages/species try to live a "normal" "romantic" life.
THE END.
Now, as always, I am not trying to be rude when I post this. This formula is NOT based solely off of
Die For Me. Off the top of my head I can list *quickly lists in head* at least four books that follow this EXACT formula (perhaps with some genders changed).
In conclusion,
Die for Me came at a really bad spot in my reading career. If I had read any other paranormal romance right now, it would have gotten the same response. As I said before, I'm tired of saying this over and over.
I'm done. And
Die for Me wasn't a bad book to end on. It had a really great paranormal twist/element, but it got buried under the romantic debris.
I hope and pray this is the last review I'll ever have to write like this.
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