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Verletzlich (2012)

by R.A. Nelson(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3473584126 (ISBN13: 9783473584123)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ravensburger Taschenbuch

review 1: Going into this, I thought it would be pretty ok - only to discover I would be continuously annoyed, bored, disappointed, and exasperated in equal measure. The beginning of the book was interesting - because of that I was willing to overlook the lack of depth / sentences longer than six words. But once she was headed into the woods to get attacked and accidentally half-turned? Utter disappointment. The entire novel felt like a shallow glossing over what could have potentially been really interesting. No suspension of disbelief here - even the other characters (vampires) weren't very believable. I think this is because they were supposedly from foreign+/olden times yet they spoke in contemporary English with a random foreign word thrown in here and there just to remind you.... more As well as why I didn't invest really in any of the characters (2-D, generic).It was all very disjointed. The main character? I wanted to beat her upside the head the majority of the time. After the beginning I had no sympathy for her whatsoever, everything she contemplated was recycled endlessly without even the possibility of a rephrasing. I felt like I read the same statements / thoughts at least four times each. I especially hated how despite her (I also didn't like her name choice, it didn't suit her) plan to defeat the vamp who (accidentally) didn't kill her but partially-turned her, she still hesitated once she started fighting back. I'm talking about one specific scene where she actually manages to get the upper hand and, rather than killing one of her attackers feels so much pity that she decides to WALK AWAY?! I almost threw the book across the room (I'm the type that keeps all my books pristine) - she spent the entire book talking about how she needed to get free and save herself and her family and her boyfriend and spends at minimum two dozen pages fighting for her life and then thinks at the last minute "Never mind"?! At that point I just thought "if that's how it's going to be WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME THE EFFORT AND DIE THIRTY PAGES AGO?!"I can go on. Proud I managed to get through that without typing a single swear word - that was NOT what happened while reading this book. Surprised I managed to finish it honestly... Painful. Not he worst I've read, but pretty faaaaaar down there.
review 2: This book was so bad I didn't even want to finish it. I literally got 190 pages in and said, "I'm just gonna skip to the end." So I did. And I really didn't miss out on anything. The book started out pretty strong, and I liked Emma's character--though for some reason I kept forgetting her name. She doesn't really seem like an "Emma" to me. I usually like R.A. Nelson as a writer. He comes up with some unique plots and characters, but this book just didn't cut it for me. After Emma gets attacked by the vampire (which happens within the first 30-ish pages, I think) the whole story slows way way down. Too boring to finish. less

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