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| Summary taken from the back. |
Milagro De Los Santos is having serious problems planning her wedding to fabulous Oswald Grant, M.D. Her future in-laws loathe her, her dog just died, and Oswald's family has a genetic anomaly that makes them crave blood. Then her extravagant best friend hijacks the role of wedding coordinator, and the secretive Vampire Council assigns conniving Cornelia Ducharme to guide the couple through the ancient vampire marriage rituals.
To top it all off, Milagro's career is on the skids. She's reduced to ghost-writing the memoirs of a loony little man who claims to be a shapeshifter. And why does Cornelia's decadent, way too attractive brother, Ian, always show up whenever Milagro is away from Oswald? When a series of accidents interferes with wedding plans, Oswald worries that Milagro is cracking under the pressure. Is she just paranoid, or is a hidden enemy trying to make sure Milagro doesn't wed the undead?
Enjoyment: ★★☆
This book is almost like a huge car crash in the middle of the freeway and you happen to have a front seat. This book is the third in the Casa Dracula series and I had a hard time trying to get into the story. The problem is that I could not put it down. The book even though I did not enjoy it was addictive which like fanfiction you can not stop reading in the hope of finding an interesting story, or good part in this book's case.
Plot: ★☆
The plot might as well have not been there. The only time it moved forward was when someone was trying to force her to do something and even then it was transparent. I figured out the end not even halfway through the novel and I could predict every point before. The climax of the novel was a joke. It was perhaps the most dullest part of the entire book. And it was in the last three chapters of the book too.
Characters: ★★☆
The characters in this book had not one personality, they each had a couple. They were all either two-faced or Marta Acosta just does not know how to make anyone act consistent. Milagro was a stereotypical Mexican-American and the rest of the characters acted exactly the same. The narration was just atrocious because all of the women were described and skinny, tall, in some way anorexic, and typical American while with the men all we heard about was their eyes and body type. In the back of the book it says that she was going for smart but she came across to me as as a dumb, loose moralled woman. None of the characters were believable and none of them moved out of the moulds that they had been assigned in the beginning. Each person was less believable as the previous.
Style: ★☆
If something was mentioned once you can be sure that it will be brought up a dozen different ways a dozen more times. By the end of the story I came to really hate some lines. The one that I resent the most has to be "Ha ha and ha." I could do a Mafia style hit on that line. Another big problem for me was the random use of what looks like a thesaurus. It was like putting a SAT level word in a book meant for first graders, meaning it stuck out like a sore thumb and seemed not to fit. Secondly, if you are going to pepper a book with another language at least have the courtesy of putting the translation so that the reader knows what you are trying to say. I felt that the character development was too slow and by the time they even began to have any real substance the book was over. Finally the reason it even got 1 1/2 stars is the fact that while she may have randomly decided to use an overly flowery word a times the author was good with colloquialism/slang.
Grade: ★★
In the end I just did not really enjoy this book and I do not see myself recommending this book to anyone. Not that that will stop me when it comes to reading the first two books of this series. If only it would, my life would be so much less stressful.
Enjoyment: ★★☆
This book is almost like a huge car crash in the middle of the freeway and you happen to have a front seat. This book is the third in the Casa Dracula series and I had a hard time trying to get into the story. The problem is that I could not put it down. The book even though I did not enjoy it was addictive which like fanfiction you can not stop reading in the hope of finding an interesting story, or good part in this book's case.
Plot: ★☆
The plot might as well have not been there. The only time it moved forward was when someone was trying to force her to do something and even then it was transparent. I figured out the end not even halfway through the novel and I could predict every point before. The climax of the novel was a joke. It was perhaps the most dullest part of the entire book. And it was in the last three chapters of the book too.
Characters: ★★☆
The characters in this book had not one personality, they each had a couple. They were all either two-faced or Marta Acosta just does not know how to make anyone act consistent. Milagro was a stereotypical Mexican-American and the rest of the characters acted exactly the same. The narration was just atrocious because all of the women were described and skinny, tall, in some way anorexic, and typical American while with the men all we heard about was their eyes and body type. In the back of the book it says that she was going for smart but she came across to me as as a dumb, loose moralled woman. None of the characters were believable and none of them moved out of the moulds that they had been assigned in the beginning. Each person was less believable as the previous.
Style: ★☆
If something was mentioned once you can be sure that it will be brought up a dozen different ways a dozen more times. By the end of the story I came to really hate some lines. The one that I resent the most has to be "Ha ha and ha." I could do a Mafia style hit on that line. Another big problem for me was the random use of what looks like a thesaurus. It was like putting a SAT level word in a book meant for first graders, meaning it stuck out like a sore thumb and seemed not to fit. Secondly, if you are going to pepper a book with another language at least have the courtesy of putting the translation so that the reader knows what you are trying to say. I felt that the character development was too slow and by the time they even began to have any real substance the book was over. Finally the reason it even got 1 1/2 stars is the fact that while she may have randomly decided to use an overly flowery word a times the author was good with colloquialism/slang.
Grade: ★★
In the end I just did not really enjoy this book and I do not see myself recommending this book to anyone. Not that that will stop me when it comes to reading the first two books of this series. If only it would, my life would be so much less stressful.
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