Review Detail

“I absolutely love the world created in Darkness Becomes Her! Love it! It's so luscious and intriguing, I loved learning about it. The minor characters were amazing too, my favorite being Violet. She was so cute and I loved her obsession with masks! I also liked the female lead, a lot! There were a few things about her that annoyed me a lot, but on the whole she was a strong lead who grew during the story.

Unfortunately a good setting, lead and minor characters don't make a book. This is where Darkness Becomes Her was lacking. For the most part I enjoyed the book but there were two things that stood out and annoyed me a lot.

1. Ari and Bastian's Relationship. I mean really! Come on. Seriously. It moved WAY WAY WAY to fast. I absolutely hated it! I spent the whole book hoping that something would happen so they wouldn't be in love. I was actually happy when Ari thought that he couldn't love her when he found out what she was, I thought, "Ooooh, now maybe we'll an interesting romance". Alas, he was only going to get help. Anyway, it went from. "I hate this guy" to "Let's make out!" Ugh. And then she kept going on and on about how perfect he was and blah blah blah. It seemed out of character and was just plain annoying.

2. The plot. Ok, so this one is a bit harder to pinpoint. I enjoyed the plot and for the most part it seemed to fit. But towards the end it seemed really jumpy, plus there was a certain part where it seemed like it should have been the end of the book and there was a major lull, yet there were still 80 or so pages left, so it just was weird for me. Also in the middle it got confusing, but maybe that was just because I took a week break between reading it and read other books during that time. Still it was a bit hard to understand at some points.

Anyway, other than those things I loved the book, and I am eager to read the next one. The first set up a good start to an interesting series.