Author: Jeff Sampson
Rating: 2/5
Genre: Paranormal
Recommend To: N/A
Honestly, it was weird. In a sort of not OH MY GOD THAT WAS SO UNEXPECTED but more of a .....huh...that was....unexpected...and odd...kind of way. It was just blah. The thing that attracted me to it the most was the cover. And the title. But nothing ever gets explained. There is some stuff that is supposed to confuse you, make you think plot twists and things, throw you off the trail, but it is overkill and completely ruins the romance aspect (that was awful), and other than that...the characters are pretty flat.
Ugh, what's her name....gosh I already forgot...Emily! It was Emily. Okay, Emily Webb not Cooke, it a boring person during the daytime. During the nighttime she morphs into.....oh look! Another boring Emily! Really, the concept was cool, but the rest of it really was not. The parties and random boy-licking (eew) and the drunkenness was probably supposed to make her really really different from daytime Emily, but I never even got a feel for the original character herself. The nighttime Emily was just a boring drunk. I never thought whoa, she is a really dangerous and awesome female main character. Her best friend Meghan was beyond obnoxious. Normally I love the secondary characters, they're the quirky ones who light the book up! But uhh....Meghan celebrated the death of a girl...because she was a popular girl who apparently deserved no less. Umm okay who does that? And then she wished for more dead popular people and told her best friend she was better off dead than well-liked. Great message there. There are also the usual absent parents, no older guide whatsoever, and her dad doesn't say more than 5 lines and plays video games (I get her mom is dead but still).
The love interest? We spend ages listening to Emily ramble on about some other guy. We are introduced to the actual guy after 80% of the book is over, and we don't learn a thing about him. Bam, he is just there. Yeah, plot twist or just random and not well done? I vote the latter. They don't even TALK. It's completely useless and it's not even love at first sight. It was something else altogether. Ugh.
The only thing that salvaged this book even remotely was the whole F. Savage dialogue interview thing. I don't make much sense but I don't really want to spoil. It was different though, I enjoyed it more than the whole book put together. And the ending was better. It really showed a better, more sarcastic, and actually intelligent side of Emily. Although still no explanation whatsoever, it just was not well done.
Overall, a pretty horrible book with the potential to be something. Maybe. It was all just weird and off kilter. The pacing was terrible, the romance was...nonexistent let's just say....and the characters were two-dimensional.
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