Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Expected publication date: May 12, 2015
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Description (taken from Temple West' website):
CAITLIN IS YOUR TYPICAL ORPHAN:
...pissed off and grieving. After her mother dies of bone cancer, she's uprooted to Stony Creek, a pitiful excuse for a town in the rural mountains of upstate New York. Stuck living on her aunt and uncle's struggling horse ranch, Caitlin vows to simply survive until she graduates high school. Then, it's on to New York and wrangling a scholarship at The Fashion Institute so she can become a designer and start her own line.
But shortly after arriving in Stony Creek, a freak storm sets her on a dangerous path: right in the middle of vampires, demons, and age-old secrets. The only person she can trust? Adrian, the vampire who rescued her. Problem is, he has to pretend to be her boyfriend in order to keep his status as her personal bodyguard under wraps. And in a small town, it's not long before some secrets get real big.
Caitlin has just lost her mother to cancer and is forced to move to the middle of nowhere, New York. Trying to deal with the family that's taken her in without ever having been there before makes it worse. All she can do is keep going until high school's over. While trying to find solitude one day in the woods, she experiences a storm that disorients her. Cue mysterious vampire boy saving the day.
Adrian has been the guy who's kept to himself ever since he came to Stony Creek. But he's suddenly opening up to Caitlin. And while there are definitely ulterior motives keeping them together, Caitlin begins to enjoy life again. She has the pleasure to meet his little brother as well as gain an interest again in her hobbies. And as her friendship develops, she finds some things are worth the risk. But does Adrian agree or is she only an assignment to him?
At best, I'm apathetic to this story. I felt like this story had 350 pages of romance and 30 pages of action. And I'm beginning to dislike the fluffy teenage romances and I-must-hate-my-elders attitude that a lot of YA books have. It feels childish. But that wasn't my only complaint. I felt like I was being told the story instead of having the story visualized. Don't tell me the hot boy is cute and chiseled; instead, describe him in minute detail until I don't even have to be told he is drop-dead-gorgeous.
This book is definitely for the die-hard young adult vampire romance fans. As for me? I'm beginning to regret my love of YA vampire romances...
Thanks goes to Around the World ARC Tours for providing me a review copy.
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