{"id":1110,"date":"2011-11-07T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2011-11-07T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:45:08","slug":"book-review-insatiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Insatiable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Insatiable\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1301643046l\/6953500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The writer for a soap opera is told that they&#8217;re going vampire in order to compete against other shows using the same concept. She hates vampire-mania, and doesn&#8217;t believe in vampires, but before long she finds herself introduced to the Prince of Darkness himself &#8212; the son of Dracula.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this book and found it to be a surprisingly quick read. Meena, the heroine, also has the ability to know when\/how people are going to die, which adds another interesting psychic aspect to things. I thought she was an interesting character, and I liked watching her struggle with her predictive gift even before the vampires came into the story.<\/p>\n<p>I also appreciated the nod to Bram Stoker&#8217;s version of Dracula, even roughly naming the main character after the woman from the book. (Different spelling.) Most of the vampires in this book weren&#8217;t simply misunderstood figures of mystery and romance &#8212; they needed to be put down.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that bothered me about the book, and it&#8217;s sort of an odd feeling that I&#8217;m going to have trouble putting into words, is that I had trouble figuring out the tone. It seemed lighthearted for the most part, but especially at the end, we are left with elements of horror, and a definite uncertainty about the state of things. Granted, there are sequels, so the uncertainty itself isn&#8217;t a problem, it&#8217;s more that I&#8217;m not sure if what I just read was supposed to be dark or not. I think it was, but if so, I felt the tone was off.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend this book to paranormal fans and I will be looking out for the sequel!<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Title: Insatiable<br \/>\nAuthor: Meg Cabot<br \/>\nISBN: 006173506X<br \/>\nPublications Date: June 8th 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer for a soap opera is told that they&#8217;re going vampire in order to compete against other shows using the same concept. She hates vampire-mania, and doesn&#8217;t believe in vampires, but before long she finds herself introduced to the Prince of Darkness himself &#8212; the son of Dracula. I enjoyed this book and found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}