Drop Dead
Ratings4
Average rating3.5
This was way longer than it should've been. It should have been either just over 300 pages at the most 350 pages. There was a clear plot and subplot, I could see that. But I think the way Bird went around it – had the characters go around it – took too long. Drawn-out plots are rarely done well because (as with most things) they rely on the writer's writing ability. As seen by my rating – this wasn't really the case here.
I liked Ethan and Simon as characters, but I won't really remember much about them past this review. Simon I liked much less than Ethan – I found it difficult to get through his (Simon's) povs. Their personalities were a bit average for me. It's a long book and mostly focuses on them two (with Bill as a big supporting character) so I was hoping their personaltiies to change and grow. They did – a bit – but not to the extent that I wanted them to (or expected them to). Which was a big disappointing. Their relationship/romance was cute most of the time but that was about it.
I'm a big vampire fan and I liked the vampire aspect in this book. I wanted more of it, though? I don't think this is much of a spoiler but Simon is basically the only vampire we see all throughout the book. I wanted to see other vampires – older ones to maybe act as a mentor for Simon. To step in and help when the hunters didn't want to anything. More of a community, you know?
I didn't like the layout of the povs. I thought it was a dual pov and was totally fine with that. And then we got Bill (Ethan's foster mom) and I didn't understand why we needed it. To top it all off... the povs switched IN THE MIDDLE of the chapter. Like, that's something I used to see the little bit I was on Wattpad.