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A review by gypjet
Bleeding Hearts by Ash Krafton
3.0
I'm kind of on the fence about this book. On the one hand, it kept me interested, I wasn't bored, and I didn't hate the main character. On the other it had a lot of issues.
First of all, I like that Sophie was an advice columnist, that set her up for her "calling" well and it was interesting that she had a best friend/ex lover who was a priest. That was interesting. I was intrigued about her vampire world and the levels that a vampire could become, I thought that was kind of original and a unique take with serious potential. The romance was fun, the hero dark and brooding. I'm always a sucker for the tall, dark, handsome, buff and brooding leading man, and I got that in spades with Marek (even loved his name!). I claim him as my boyfriend, no one else may have him.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of plot holes and just awkward story telling. The first three-quarters of the book felt like the author wasn't sure where she was going and it dragged a lot in the plot category. Basically it just followed Sophie around being undecided about her life and not confident in herself. Then the explanation of what makes a demi-vampire as opposed to a vampire and what causes the change was unclear. Sure I got the whole demis have a soul and vampires don't, but the differences between them (physically) (do demi-vampires eat stuff besides blood? unclear), their powers, their purposes, their society were not described and I was confused and frankly didn't have any reason to care about the differences. The last quarter of the book is the part where anything happened and it was exciting but still it was a long time to wait for anything to occur and any conflict to be introduced.
Basically, if you just like a paranormal romance for romance's sake, this book is for you. It showed some promise at the end to be something else, but it was too little too late.
First of all, I like that Sophie was an advice columnist, that set her up for her "calling" well and it was interesting that she had a best friend/ex lover who was a priest. That was interesting. I was intrigued about her vampire world and the levels that a vampire could become, I thought that was kind of original and a unique take with serious potential. The romance was fun, the hero dark and brooding. I'm always a sucker for the tall, dark, handsome, buff and brooding leading man, and I got that in spades with Marek (even loved his name!). I claim him as my boyfriend, no one else may have him.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of plot holes and just awkward story telling. The first three-quarters of the book felt like the author wasn't sure where she was going and it dragged a lot in the plot category. Basically it just followed Sophie around being undecided about her life and not confident in herself. Then the explanation of what makes a demi-vampire as opposed to a vampire and what causes the change was unclear. Sure I got the whole demis have a soul and vampires don't, but the differences between them (physically) (do demi-vampires eat stuff besides blood? unclear), their powers, their purposes, their society were not described and I was confused and frankly didn't have any reason to care about the differences. The last quarter of the book is the part where anything happened and it was exciting but still it was a long time to wait for anything to occur and any conflict to be introduced.
Basically, if you just like a paranormal romance for romance's sake, this book is for you. It showed some promise at the end to be something else, but it was too little too late.