2 Stars
This book had so much potential. Everything was there in the description: Romance, Vampires, Action, Rebellion. What I read though was confusing, slow-paced, unclear, and a forced romance that did not make sense.
Celeste and Nick are twins who are adopted by vampires who caused their parent's death. Celeste has very low self-esteem and keeps comparing herself to her brother constantly, thinking that he is the charismatic and better twin while everyone in the book tells her that they like her better. Big Bella from Twilight vibes, she is the prettiest girl in the room but doesn’t know it, Celeste rarely does anything on her own even when she becomes a cop that is because her dad was a cop and her brother wanted to be one but couldn't. That was not the life she wanted for herself, she doesn’t have any agency over her life and has others save her.
As for the romance… what romance. Tristen the "forbidden desire" did not talk to her and just stalked around her. There was no building of friendship or anything. Celeste just thought that he was hot and boom, we were supposed to believe that they were in love. We are told rather than shown why they cannot be together but they do it anyway and it gets tiresome by the end.
When fi
nishing, everything seemed to end up too perfect. It all works out with too nice of a bow, there were no real struggles or repercussions for the choices that were made. Overall, it was hard to finish because of the things Celeste says about the people around her and how she views both them and herself.
Final thoughts - Way too much happening in this book and not in a good way. Nothing was able to be explained or made sense, no character development to make it worth the read.
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