Book Review:
Dance with a
Vampire
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| Oh la la. Pretty dress makes an appearance in book. :) |
Back in Dullsville with Goth Girl & co.
(i.e. Raven Madison, Alexander Sterling, friends and mortal and immortal
nemeses) the fourth adventure kicks off right where Book Three, Vampireville, left off with the arrival
of Maxwell twins Jagger and Luna’s ickle brother, Valentine.
Dance with a
Vampire is much the same run on the whole
human-vamp forbidden love plot I predict will overarch the other five books
remaining in this series. Joy! –sarcasm-
I did
enjoy that the story focused on a new relationship dynamic, that of Raven and
her little brother, Billy/Billy Boy/William/Plain Old Billy/Nerd Boy. And this especially when Valentine is
searching for his own A.W.O.L. siblings.
On the Raven and Alexander front we learn that
despite it being her childhood dream come true, Raven isn’t 100% on board with
the whole vampire thing. It felt so
refreshing when her concern turned to her loving family and how her
immortaility wasn’t a selfless act—in a big, BIG way she’d be changing the
lives of her loved ones as well.
But Alexander has his own fear. All this time he’d been waxing poetry about
the beauty of immortality, denying Raven a one-way ticket to never age land-slash-vamplandia
(a.k.a. Romania, apparently #1 country for vampires) when in fact all he wants
is to chomp on his lady love’s neck and make Raven his vampy mate.
I’ll let you wave together how that goes down
when the air is cleared of cobwebs.
What I didn’t like remains the same from Book 3
(and the un-reviewed Books 1 + 2):
-the whole over-the-top Goth thing
-why does Raven keep calling Jameson, the
Sterling household butler, Creepy Man even after four books? (Real rude.)
-everybody wants in Raven’s torn fishnets. Seriously, there are at least 3 guys vying
for her attention thus far. For a girl
who’s introduced and remains having one best friend, and the town’s freakiest
resident after her vampire boyfriend, she’s extremely rare commodity to teenage
hormones.
-a lot of convenient plot workings whenever
Raven wants to get somewhere or do something, everything just falls into
place. (For instance, at one point she
wants to skip school but the principal refuses her because she’s used up 130 “sick”
days out of the 140 days of school thus far.
And then he’s like, okay, 131 and that’s it. After this you can’t go home anymore. Are you stupid or something, Principal
guy?)
My verdict:
✮✮✮
(3 stars)
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