Reviewed by Angie on
I had so many questions the entire time I was reading Darkness Falls. This world just makes absolutely no sense to me. Kayla is clearly something more than human, but is she part vampire, part Higher, something else? What exactly is a Higher? Then there's the fact that Kayla doesn't know what bruises, kissing, time, or angels are. No one can read, since books were destroyed when the virus appeared. But what do books have to do with vampires? And this is only 19 years into the future, so surely there are people who can read and can teach the youngsters now. Apparently not. It just seems like too much change in too little time, and there are lots of holes.
Another major problem I had with Darkness Falls was the lack of answers about anything and how conversations just went in circles. Kayla has no memories of pretty much her entire life, but she's told she can get them back. She also meets Aiden, who she knew from before, but he refuses to tell her anything, because she needs to figure it out on her own. When he does offer up information he keeps asking if she's sure she wants to know, or that he'll explain it all to her later. A later that never comes. Then when someone is finally going to do some accelerated memory retrieval, Aiden stops that because Kayla needs to remember naturally. Why does it matter how her memories return?! She (and we) needs to know what's happened to her! It was a lot of push and pull for nothing.
Darkness Falls was just weird for me. I love this premise, but I don't think it was executed well. The world building is incomplete, and the narration is quite jumpy in the beginning since Kayla is constantly blacking out. We don't get any answers, and frankly, by the end, I didn't really care anymore.
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Reading updates
- Started reading
- 2 March, 2014: Finished reading
- 2 March, 2014: Reviewed