Neogothic by Anthony Jerome Brown

I got this e-book free in exchange for an honest review( Lover of Paranormal).

This review may contain spoilers.

Rating 5 of 10

I was really a bit disapointed in that book. The idea was great, really original. But the way it was executed sort of ruined it. My first problem was the fact that everything happened waaaay too fast. There was practically no time to get to know the characters. It was like riding a rollercoaster. I knew time was passing in the book but only because I was told so, I never actually felt it. And the characters didn't seem to develope at all. Would have been nice if we had a better insight of them.

The second major point that bothered me were the dialogues. Or more likely the lack of them. Everything was like one big monologue all the time. Like when Atara was explaining the origins of the species in the book and she kept talking and talking and talking for pages. Sort of I don't believe that Rob won't ask questions and interupt her at least once. Also hate how the characters kept explaining themselves like "I did this and then she did that and after I did something else..." And then there were the repeating of the same things. For example,  Atara described how some of the warriors looked like and later when Rob meets them we ger the same description all over again. Or when they were fighting in the club and we got a detailed dscription where the door and the bar and the sofas were and after we get it again like the door is behind Rob's back and so on....

I would have loved to give that book a better rating as the idea is really one of the best I have stumbled upon but it really looked like being written by an amateur, more like a fanfiction than a book... Next time maybe.