Joni Reads
Written on Mar 21, 2021
This story really had potential but it fell flat in execution.
There are a lot of moving parts to this story. We follow multiple characters and each chapter is a different time and narrator. I tend to not enjoy books like this because the flow just doesn't work. I lost track of when things were occurring and then toward the end everything just tied up suddenly and I felt it ended too quickly and neatly.
Logan, the main character is trying to find her father and her brother. Her father was bit by a vampire at the beginning of the book. Logan and her brother Eli escaped to an orphanage. Eli is six years older than Logan and when he aged out of the orphanage they lost track of each other.
One day Logan is at the border between human land and vampire land when she meets an Izel-half vampire, half angel- named Cade. Cade is trying to find two friends of his. They agree to team up to find their missing loved ones.
Logan irritated me. Her character lacked depth and I felt like everything with her was very surface. I never had a good feel for her personality. She was just bland.
Cade is my favorite character in this book. He is funny and he teaches Logan a lot about the world and her prejudices about vampires and angels.
There are underlying themes of racism in this book that I think are so important so I'm so disappointed in how flat the story fell.
I see a potential for a sequel due to a few things that took place at the end of the book but there is no cliff hanger. I probably would skip a sequel at this point regardless.