I am incredibly disappointed in this book. I didn't understand most of it to be completly honest. I felt like the characters were all incredibly damaged and idiotic people.
Val is just sooo naive and bitchy.
Jack is a jackass and a hypocrite.
Lucas is...insane. Nothing ever makes sense!
First of all (and that goes all the way back to the first book) you don't prentend to love someone and then think of them living their own independent lives as "whoring" their way through a town.
For the second book, it is mostly little stuff that bugs me.
For exemple: Who says "snorkeling" in a casual conversation? And to the other guy with the hots for you? Pleeaase...
"jack was frozen in murderous desire" what does that even mean? Did he want to kill her or kiss her?
I hate how they go from saying one thing to thinking the opposite without the necessary thought process mapped out for us to follow.
For exemple: " she might never forgive him. And why should she? He'd been an asshole. In fact, he'd probably accomplished the one thing he didn't want to. His whole agenda for coming here had been to keep her out of the fanger's bed. One goal. And she was probably fucking him right now. How could she make such a piss-poor decision?"
He goes from having a pity party - and a sucky one at that since he is removing all sympathy i ever had for him when he talks about his agenda - to blaming her for everything and saying she's a goddam slut. Right before the pity party, they were breaking up and she said how she thought sex would make them form a deeper connection. Is she completly stupid? There is a reason our mothers all pull us aside at puberty for a "talk". It's because boys only think about one thing and they don't want us to end up heartbroken and pregnant at 16. Sex doesn't mean love!
The guy (we are still talking about jack here ok?) Keeps rejecting her and pushing her to risk her life for his own personal vengence. Everybody deserves a good and peaceful life, how dare he make her feel like a coward for wanting one? I think she is hiding her head in the sand because she seems to think she will actually get one but he should not make her feel guilty for trying to be happy.
I have a serious problem with Val. She has no self-estime. She actually went to lucas to talk about how pathetic she was! THAT is what is the most pathetic! at one point, she talk about fixing a conflict with oral sex and I thought " wow, jack was right. She is a whore".
Jack is so...confusing. one minute he is encouraging her to embrace her so-called "legacy" and kill vamps with him, next he is bitching at her for getting into trouble! All the while he goes on and on about how he failed in his task to protect her and blah blah blah.. well sure! You tell her to go and kill herself out of love for you,you frickin' moron!
For a while i thought of lucas as the tormented soul trapped in an emotionless body whose salvation was the beautiful empath he vowed to one day possess and protect... then he starts to manipulate, compell or kill someone and i just think " oh what the hell...?"
one time Val complained about how she didn't want to become that girl who goes out with jerks who make her feel bad about herself or something like that and i just thought "isn't she already that girl?".
The only reason i am reading this is because i want to know who she ends up with. If i were her, i would go with the celt god. At least i would have a brain, be immortal, get to kill bastard exes,bring life to a new world full of wonderful stuff like unicorns and leprechaun without having to go through the "wonders of childbirth" and be its queen at the side Of a totally hot guy who, apparently, radiates life.
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