The Book of Life

When my mom read the first book in this series, she said she thought it was trying to be like Twilight, and I was so defensive, telling her that not all vampire books were Twilight and blah blah blah, because I liked the first book.

But now the series has ended with a blood-sucking vampire baby who angered the vampire government that our heroine had to go appeal to (in Italy, no less), and I was like dammit, why is my mother always right.

Besides that comparison, this series has multiple other issues and goes from good to so-so to downright BAD as the books progress. Harkness introduces characters, forgets them for the entire second book, then brings them back in the third book with no reminder like we're supposed to know who the heck Jack is and why he's hugging the main character. Meanwhile other characters disappear without ever serving a purpose.

The plot does nothing to hold things together – the book just meanders and then ends and we don't really know what The Book of Life even is or why it exists or what the damn point of the whole three novel series was. So frustrating.