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Jan 09, 2019isaachar rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Every time I swear off vampire books, I find a new twist on them that brings me back to the genre. After hearing this trilogy would be getting a television series I rushed to get my hands on the first book. This book did not disappoint, but the beginning and middle were a lot stronger than the end. The story takes place in two time periods, the modern world just before most human life is wiped out, and around a century later among the survivors. The story keeps your eyes peeled to each page until around the last 4th of the book. For some reason, the surviving characters begin making decisions that don't seem rational. The repetitive excuse of "have faith in your destiny" or "you'll know what's right" kept coming up, and it was a little distracting. The book also uses a lot of direct foreshadowing. Not just to things in later books but things in later chapters, or even the next chapter. This kept me reading but felt overplayed towards the end of the book. All in all, this is a remarkably interesting first entry with only a few flaws.