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Blood & Chocolate
Author: Annette Curtis KlausePages: 264
Rating: 1.5/5
Read: 1
Sigh. Once in a lifetime I come across a book that is horribly overrated and yet horrible. Its as if the YAs that have read this book really are young and mindless. I suppose Blood & Chocolate is a good book, to some levels, though I can't identify any of those levels.
First of all, the characters in this book were extremely unrealistic. I take that back. The whole book was extremely unrealistic! Now before you read anything below, there are spoilers. Since I don't really recommend this book, I don't care if you read it or not.
Vivian is the main character, a teenage female werewolf who blames herself for the pack's distrust in one another. She's extremely pretty, and because so, other people aren't friends with her. But does the beauty of someone really intimidate you not to talk or be friends with him/her? Maybe you'd be shy around that person. But it sounds like Vivian is a pretty snob. Well, she does think of others, yes, but she's also thinking of how much she wants to be friends with others. She meets Aiden, a somewhat gothic guy who likes the supernatural. She wants to reveal herself to him.
All the characters are immature sex-driven people. For instance, when police officers knock on Vivian's door to ask where she was on a night of a murder, Gabriel tells the police officer that Viviane was with him. Well, maybe he was with her as a fatherly-type figure, watching over her. But the book made it seem that he was *with* her. But wait a minute. Gabriel is in his twenties, and Vivian's seventeen.
Back up a bit. What!?! Do the cops pay attention to this at all?
Another time. In the beginning of the book, Vivian scolds her mother for getting into a fight with another female werewolf named Astrid. First of all, her mother is immature. Second of all, her mother and Astrid were fighting over a man, a male werewolf named Gabriel. Major spoiler. Doesn't anyone find it gross that in the beginning of the book, Vivian's mother was with Gabriel, and then towards the end, Vivian gets with him?
Ewww!
Date: October 26, 2005