As far as I'm concerned, vampire romances should have ended after the mic drop of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'll allow Angel. I read the first Twilight book and thought it was super boring -- no conflict until the last third, no character growth, no nothing.
Filthy Rich Vampire by Geneva Lee is 98 percent Twilight and 2 percent Fifty Shades of Grey, although it seems to want to be more of a 50/50 mix.
The book started out promising. Heroine Thea has a passion and a genius for music. She is a cello player, apparently a great one. She also has a bit of a back story. She is a college senior who is a full-time student working two jobs to cover college costs and to try to pay off her mother's medical debt incurred from cancer treatment. (I want to hug both of them and tell them that medical debt (unlike student loans) is dischargeable in bankruptcy.) She lives in a crappy apartment with two lovely roommates.
Hero Julian, a vampire, falls for Thea because he hears her play her music.
So far this is good. Thea, who has a personality, a goal, and a will, should be able to hold her own against Julian.
Alas, the story falls apart there. I started to hate -- I mean, really HATE -- this book when Thea gives in to Julian's demand that she drop out of college so she can come to Paris with him for some vampire stuff. Girl, she has like TWO WEEKS of classes left before she graduates. And during those two weeks she is supposed to audition for a prestigious music fellowship that she has a good chance of getting, and that she really wants. Fuck you, Julian, and fuck you, Thea, for giving in to him.
After that, there is little talk of Thea's music. Instead, the book pivots to an absolute obsession with her virginity. See, if you lose your virginity to a vampire you will be in his thrall for the rest of your life. (At one point, Julian very wisely suggests that Thea lose her virginity to someone else so that they can then have safe sex to their hearts content, but Thea is not having that, partly because she is afraid that Julian will kill the paramour.)
As the book's plot had lost all interest for me at this point, my mind wandered. What is virginity anyway? What if Thea inserts a dildo into her vagina --would that count? What if Julian inserts a dildo into her vagina? A finger? What if they have PIV sex but he doesn't come? Or she doesn't? What if he only inserts his penis halfway? What if they have anal sex?
The book ends on a cliffhanger. I will not be reading the sequel, because I just don't care.
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