A Note:

6/2/13

I once told myself: IF I am accepted into grad school, this blog would no longer be updated. As it turns out, in April, I received news of my acceptance for the Fall 2013 semester, where I will attain a Master's degree of Science in Nutrition.

Running a blog, as many of you may already know, is a demanding side job once the excitement wears off. And once I fell out of the blogging community's loop (have you SEEN how many blogs there are now? Wow!), it was like the kiss of death. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get into a blogging routine once this happened due to the disconnect I felt from the community.

So I took a break. I struggled with the loss and with missing my blog. And then I realized I didn't have to run Book Faery to still be a book reviewer; I could read my books and post reviews online. I'm still a book review blogger, just not in the traditional sense.

I'll still be online. You can chat with me on Twitter, where I'll be posting links to my reviews and talking books. I'll also be posting links to nutrition articles. And if you'd like to connect with me where I guarantee I will post reviews, just add me as a friend on Goodreads.

So that's all, folks! It's been a fun and amazing journey, and I thank you all for listening to my thoughts about books. I hope we all can keep in touch elsewhere :)

Tori

Friday, September 30, 2011

Binah the Bold review: The Truth About Vampires by Theresa Meyers


Paperback: 238 pages
Price: $5.25
ISBN: 978-0-373-61854-5
Released: Feb 15, 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Nocturne (What were you guys THINKING??)
Author's Website: Here.
Buy it: Amazon (please don't)
Obtained: Via Authors After Dark swagbag (YAY let me just tell you it was GREAT and be warned that's the last positive bit for this review)
Genre: Paranormal Romance Count Chocula Angst
Series: Sons of Midnight
Book Order:
1. The Truth About Vampires
2. The Vampire Who Loved Me
(3. Please Tell Me This Series Doesn't Continue Past That Because OH GOD WHYYYY)

All her life, Seattle reporter Kristin Reed sought her breakout story. She never thought she'd find it in the crimson lair of a real-life creature of the night. Kristin never believed vampires existed—until with dark brooding eyes and a decadent chocolate scent, Dmitri Dionotte called out to her….

Dmitri and his clan's true nature was cloaked in secrecy until a warring vampire order threatened their existence. Kristin was just the woman he needed. She couldn't resist their story…or Dmitri. Her blood pulsed hot and furious when he touched her, and with his kiss, all logic fled. But each night she spent with her vampire lover brought her closer to death and destruction. A death not even an immortal could triumph over.


My Rating: Two bottles of tequila and a shot to the temple because the only way to fix this is to pretend it never happened. Got that? It never happened.

My Opinion: If you've read this far into the review, you already know my opinion. (My opinion is BAD.) Now that we have that out of the way, let me expound upon that for you.

Other than smelling like chocolate, the hero is pretty generic. I didn't hate him - I didn't like him, either. He's the "oh woe is me, for I am pretty and immortal" type of vampire (which is... all right, I suppose, if you're into that) and the "let me help you, little lady, ha ha you're trying to be an independent, resourceful human, that is just adorable AND DISAPPROVED. I TAKE CARE OF YOU NOW." Can you tell it annoyed me?

Our heroine starts off promising (she's a reporter, woman trying to get ahead in a man's world, yadda yadda) and very quickly and disappointingly devolves into TSTL.*

There's some kind of plot, but really I don't remember much of it. I've been trying to review this damn book for over a month now and the pain has just died down enough for me to give you the highlights (if I recall correctly):

- Vampires can teleport
- Vampires can teleport objects
- This leads to several scenes of clothing magically teleporting off & on (Not. Joking.)

- Big Badguy Vampire looks like Spike (of Buffy fame)
- So basically he looks like Billy Idol
- Am I the only one who doesn't find that very intimidating?
- Also, he's killing people because he serves (wait for it...) the greek goddess Eros. Who is half vampire.
- Please hold, must stop the blood coming out of my ears.



- Where was I? Oh, right. The heroine writes a piece that vampires are real, which her editor accepts without question, and the vampires (who basically hired her) completely fail to check. This results in mass chaos and rioting all over Seattle and numerous vampires are beheaded in the streets. The heroine is quite surprised by this, despite the fact that she outlined all the ways vampires are horribly dangerous in her article. (See? TSTL.)

You get the idea. Of course, there is more to the story (sex) but it wasn't really worth telling all of you about (mediocre sex).

I read it for a laugh, almost DNF'ed but hung on in case there was something good at the end. There wasn't.

Learn from my mistakes!


*Too Stupid To Live

3 comments:

  1. Sounds like the dozens of other books out there right now. I'll pass but thanks for reviewing (and the warning)

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  2. He doesn't just smell like chocolate, but his name is Dimitri as well!? Sounds like someone read Nalini Singh's Guild Hunter series and wrote a fanfic, but I could be mistaken.

    As for Billy Idol: Have you seen him on stage? Even over 50 he's still looking quite muscley and fit *insert Hubba Hubba sound coming from Voodoo Bride here*. sounds like the bad guy would have made a better hero.

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  3. @Karen You're welcome. Yeah, it came across fairly generic.

    @Sully I keep hearing about Nalini Singh, guess I'll have to figure a way to get her books now.

    Spike/Billy Idol always made me swoon, don't get me wrong. He just wasn't a very good villain.

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