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A review by xandriaisreading
This Blood that Binds Us by S.L. Cokeley
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
This is a book you read for the vibes. A Lot of the story and plot feels like the earlier seasons of the vampire diaries. It was pretty easy to see where the plot was going and solve who the "rogue" vampire was.
The characters were okay. While this is set in college, the characters didn't feel like they were college students. The brothers especially came off as if they were kids at times. She some of the personalities just seemed to change in a way that was contradictory to how they were described.
My issue is that there were inconsistencies in the story. From where people were in a scene to the male MC's age changing. Some of the sentence structures were off and weren't clear. You'd read a sentence and understand it one way only for it to not make sense with the rest of what was happening. The book also randomly switched from first person to third person for a sentence. Then the book time jumped in a choppy way where you couldn't tell that it actually jumped or if it was something in the past or present. It was hard to read the book straight through when things didn't add up or were changed. Having to constantly stop and reread and adjust what I imagined the scenes looked like, got annoying towards the end.
Will I read the next one? Probably, just to see how it concludes.
The characters were okay. While this is set in college, the characters didn't feel like they were college students. The brothers especially came off as if they were kids at times. She some of the personalities just seemed to change in a way that was contradictory to how they were described.
My issue is that there were inconsistencies in the story. From where people were in a scene to the male MC's age changing. Some of the sentence structures were off and weren't clear. You'd read a sentence and understand it one way only for it to not make sense with the rest of what was happening. The book also randomly switched from first person to third person for a sentence. Then the book time jumped in a choppy way where you couldn't tell that it actually jumped or if it was something in the past or present. It was hard to read the book straight through when things didn't add up or were changed. Having to constantly stop and reread and adjust what I imagined the scenes looked like, got annoying towards the end.
Will I read the next one? Probably, just to see how it concludes.