REVIEW (drink,slay,love)

Love Hurts

 (07/Jan/12)

      Drink, Slay, Love

    Prod dets

Stand alone

Pub: 2011, Allen & Unwin

Author: Sarah Beth Durst

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 386 pp w/ 32 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire, fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil.... until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops.

Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don’t exist). They’re shocked she survived. They’re ever more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now withstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The vampire King of New England has chosen Pearl’s family to host his feast. If Pearl enrols in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the king’s feast—as the entrees.

The only problem? Pearl’s starting to feel the twinges of a conscience. How can she serve up her new friends—especially the cute guy who makes her fangs ache—to be slaughtered? Then again, she’s definitely dead if she lets down her family. What’s a sunlight-loving vamp to do?

     my Thoughts (review)

I’m still not sure whether I like this book or not, but I totally get it.

It’s all about the inability to run from yourself. No matter who you are you are still tied down by those who raised you. Who love you. Yep, your family. And no matter whom you are or what they do to you, you can’t hurt your family.

It’s actually one of the things I didn’t like about this book is that at the end she betrayed them all—yeah I really do get it. But it seemed a real sudden, without thought, she just....agreed with them but the timing was so...I don’t know, but it was that sudden blink and I’m cool with betraying them all. kinda rushed—but it worked and made it a brilliant read, honestly I think Durst making her iffy threw that end part or even a huge chunk in the middle wouldn’t have been Pearl, she a character that takes what’s thrown at her and puts herself on either side within a threw thoughts, not a switcher. Which is what you like about her.

And I know, most of this doesn’t make sense, but then who ever really does?

This book was nicely predictable (and I really mean that, with all of my heart), the world of vamps is set with the normal set myths. Even the unicorns, really. you didn’t have to think, only enjoy and its defiantly one of those books to enjoy—just don’t go into it thinking it’s a work of art, just an enjoyable read with nothing new but a nice cheeky female that you will connect to as well as understand.

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