Touched (the Marnie Baranuik Files)

by A J Aalto

[Silvara]

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It was interesting that to be a psychic, you had to be bonded to a vampire. If you weren't bonded to a vampire, you weren't a real psychic. Since those powers all came from vampires, and humans only gain them through bonding. In exchange, the human (called a DaySitter) takes care of the vampire during daylight hours when he or she cannot do so themselves. And is a companion during the vampires waking hours. They also feed the vampire, and make sure nothing can get to the vampire to harm it.

Marnie does a lot of stupid things that she shouldn't do. Ones that have previously been shown to bite her in the butt, and yet she does them again. She also has a lot of hostility towards Mark. Even once it's been proven that he didn't deserve it. Which is almost funny since he's part of a love triangle with Marnie. Only not really, because there isn't any actual love that I could see. Mostly just lust.

I loved Harry. He was my favorite character, and what kept me reading to see what would happen next. He was funny, and charming, and while he had faults they didn't bother me as much as the other characters. He does use a lot of old British slang, quite a few words/phrases I'd never heard of and would have had to look up. Except they were explained in context/dialogue for the most part. I never really clicked with Marnie, and didn't with Mark either. Though a lot of that would be because Marnie spent so much of the book disliking him, it was hard to see anything other than that.

There was quite a bit of gore, and overly-explained gross bits that I found myself skimming through. Gore doesn't usually bother me if it makes sense in the book. And it does make sense, it was just a bit over the top for me. There were also quite a few twists and turns. I didn't expect most of them. Mostly because there were no clues before the big reveal. At least, none that I was able to look back at and go "Oh yeah..." about.

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