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A review by royab
The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton
2.0
Synopsis
Vampire shapeshifter x witch romance. Non-human male works to protect the witch he loves while the witch tries to research her ancestry.
But in reality, they forget what they're really supposed to be doing and they just think about how sexy the other is while trying not to give in to their desires.
Summary
Too much of nothing happening and an annoying main character made me lose interest.
In one word - anti-climatic.
Review
Forever Girl started out really good. It had the potential to be a great horror thriller with some romance. I like Rebecca Hamilton's writing style and there were a lot of powerful descriptions. But I didn't like the main character, the romance, the pacing, or the story.
Around the time the romance starts up the plot gets abandoned. We spend a ridiculous amount of time in the protagonist's head, which contains thoughts of 1)how sexy her man is,
2)not telling anyone about the voices in her head, and 3)wondering how she can make a relationship work with someone who is immortal.
Sophia is a really selfish protagonist, not to mention just flat out annoying. Her immediate solution to the immortality issue is to make her lover mortal and she begins plotting this without asking him or considering that she become immortal.
If Sophia isn't thinking about her boyfriend in some way, she's thinking about how she can never tell anyone that she's cursed and hears voices in her head. Because they'll think she's crazy. Seriously. With everything that's going on; vampires, shapeshifters, witches, ghosts, magic - she's worried that the people who accept all these mythical things will think she's crazy. -.-
There were some inconsistencies in the writing as if the author forgot what she wrote earlier. A big example of this is that Sophia specifically went to a club to find a guy named Adrian so she could get some ancient history books from him. And then, later on, she completely forgets about asking Andrian for the books, even though she's thought about and seen him several times since going to the club.
Oh, and, the story makes no sense.
Everything that happened ended up feeling anti-climatic, too. Like there's a big scene where they make a big deal about Sophia being different and being hunted by some guy, but we never hear about that guy again because I don't know, he just decided she wasn't that special anyway? Or like a whole gang, like 3 dozen vampires, ambush Sophia and her friends, but decide nah, we'll just remember your faces and let you guys enjoy your night. Like what??
So between being annoyed with Sophia, the story not moving along, and the story being whack anyway, I just stopped caring. I did skim to the end, but even when the big reveal happened, I just didn't care.
Vampire shapeshifter x witch romance. Non-human male works to protect the witch he loves while the witch tries to research her ancestry.
But in reality, they forget what they're really supposed to be doing and they just think about how sexy the other is while trying not to give in to their desires.
Summary
Too much of nothing happening and an annoying main character made me lose interest.
In one word - anti-climatic.
Review
Forever Girl started out really good. It had the potential to be a great horror thriller with some romance. I like Rebecca Hamilton's writing style and there were a lot of powerful descriptions. But I didn't like the main character, the romance, the pacing, or the story.
Around the time the romance starts up the plot gets abandoned. We spend a ridiculous amount of time in the protagonist's head, which contains thoughts of 1)how sexy her man is,
2)not telling anyone about the voices in her head, and 3)wondering how she can make a relationship work with someone who is immortal.
Sophia is a really selfish protagonist, not to mention just flat out annoying. Her immediate solution to the immortality issue is to make her lover mortal and she begins plotting this without asking him or considering that she become immortal.
If Sophia isn't thinking about her boyfriend in some way, she's thinking about how she can never tell anyone that she's cursed and hears voices in her head. Because they'll think she's crazy. Seriously. With everything that's going on; vampires, shapeshifters, witches, ghosts, magic - she's worried that the people who accept all these mythical things will think she's crazy. -.-
There were some inconsistencies in the writing as if the author forgot what she wrote earlier. A big example of this is that Sophia specifically went to a club to find a guy named Adrian so she could get some ancient history books from him. And then, later on, she completely forgets about asking Andrian for the books, even though she's thought about and seen him several times since going to the club.
Oh, and, the story makes no sense.
Spoiler
We have some council of beings that speak directly to the Universe. And so the Universe decided to create a bunch of earth elementals (that's what vampires are called in this book) to get rid of bad humans. But the vampires didn't do what they were supposed to do, so they created another elemental creature to take care of them and on and on with the Universe's screw-ups.Everything that happened ended up feeling anti-climatic, too. Like there's a big scene where they make a big deal about Sophia being different and being hunted by some guy, but we never hear about that guy again because I don't know, he just decided she wasn't that special anyway? Or like a whole gang, like 3 dozen vampires, ambush Sophia and her friends, but decide nah, we'll just remember your faces and let you guys enjoy your night. Like what??
So between being annoyed with Sophia, the story not moving along, and the story being whack anyway, I just stopped caring. I did skim to the end, but even when the big reveal happened, I just didn't care.