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Die Stadt Des Roten Todes (2012)

by Bethany Griffin(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3442478197 (ISBN13: 9783442478194)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Goldmann

series

Masque of the Red Death

review 1: I love this book. This was actually my second time reading it, the first being a couple of years ago when I didn't share my thoughts with the Goodreads world.The world that the story takes place in is dark and captivating. The world has succumbed to this deadly plague and no one is safe...unless you're rich enough to buy masks and party in clean air. Araby is our main character and while I didn't start off loving her, she grows into a decent person by the end. The supporting characters all have their quirks and character flaws that make you love/hate them. There is plenty of action and mystery to keep readers turning the page though it does get more exciting toward the end.There is a sequel to Masque but I'm just not sure if I will read it. While I loved this story, I... more've heard so many reviews from people who also loved it but were majorly let down by the sequel, enough to make me want to save my feels from unnecessary damage.
review 2: Actual rating 2.5 stars.Let me begin with the setting. To say the very least, the world building was breathtaking, literally. The masks and the airborne plague are the most important entities in this book that when a character loses his/her mask, I also stop breathing.Now let me get to why the measly 2.5 rating.Number 1, Araby Worth, guilt-ridden, suicidal socialite and our main protagonist. I would've appreciated the novelty of a truly fragile protagonist, if she didn't have this ridiculous vow to never do things her dead twin couldn't do. She vows to never kiss,learn to fight, ride a hot-air balloon, basically swearing off everything, but lo she does drugs and booze every night in the Debauchery Club,for oblivion she says. I rolled my eyes so much, my eyesight may be permanently impaired. There were instances in the past,when I disliked the character at the beginning of the book but gradually started liking him/her toward the end, e.g Mac Lane from Karen Moning's Fever series, but by golly I never warmed to Araby.Now, the men,Elliott and Will. Elliott is, in a word, byronic, in all the typical sense. He is an aristocratic revolutionary, he is also broody and seemingly selfish, but he dropped the I'm-in-love-with-you speech a little too early in the story. Meanwhile, Will is a pretty bouncer/tester (?) at the Debauchery Club, he's single-handedly raising his brother and sister.As far as leading men go, Will is mighty blah. Now these 2 dudes are enamoured with our purple haired Araby. In a world where half of the world's population was decimated by the plague, Araby has 2 completely hunky dudes fighting over her, maybe only the beautiful survived the plague.:PI know, I know, I expected too much from it. To be fair, the book is highly readable, I actually finished it, which is a testament in itself, but gosh darn it, the major turn off is that it is too emo for my liking, too many mentions of oblivion and pain. I'd probably still read the other books in the series, if there's nothing better to pick up. less

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