Sabrina's Reviews > Girl of Nightmares

WHAT

NO.

This book ugh I'm so upset I can't even begin to describe it. I originally expected this book to be just as awesome as the first book, but as per usual, it wasn't. It dragged on, boring. The writing of course was amazing because I love the way Kendare Blake writes. But unlike the first book, it had no spark. Carmel was annoying, Thomas was just "there" and Cas? He was puke-worthy.

Cas I feel like the one person who didn't like this book. Cas was boring the only funny part he had this time was when he stood up for Thomas at school. He talks about/sees Anna all the time, she has taken up his entire life. Why? They don't even seem like they're in love. In my first review, I said exactly the same thing. The two characters have no buildup with each other and this is insta-love on a whole new level. He hears her name and it's INSTA-LOVE.
“Anything,” she shrugs. “What’s made her so special? What made you so special to her, that she’d send herself into oblivion for you?” “I don’t know,” I say. Why did I say that? I do know. I knew it the moment I heard Anna’s name, and the first time she spoke.
I understand seeing her story would maybe make you like her, but love? No. I feel love needs to be stronger than that, that's what I hope for. Than out of the blue in the first book they're making out and hugging and they barely know anything about each other. ANYWAY! I found the plot for this book weak, but cute. Cas so determined to bring Anna back to him willing to even go to the other side to do it. (view spoiler)[only to inevitably set her free it breaks my heart (hide spoiler)]
All in all, I like Cas but I didn't like him as much as I did in the first one. I found him and Anna cheesy and unrealistic, but cute and what Cas did was very romantic.


Thomas/Carmel Practically both of these characters weren't even characters in this book. You hardly never saw them away from each other. They barely talked. In the beginning, Carmel decides that she doesn't want to do this anymore. She publicly embarrasses Thomas, breaks his heart. Than when he goes to England, she randomly shows up and gets back together with him with no backstory to that all? No reason why she changed her mind? she just shows up and acts like she gives a fuck again? ANNOYING.

Than they get back together and you don't even know why. At all. The next time you see them they're PDA it up. I understand that they are mainly side characters but I think the author should have at least included why.
Another thing that bothered me was... Carmel/Thomas were not characters. They had no depth, no story, barely even had conversations. The only "some-what" moment you see Thomas is when he's all sulky. I preferred him in the first book, before Carmel and him were joined to the hip.


Plot/Writing The writing with Kendare Blake is always good. Smooth, easy to understand, simple. But, this book bored me. I couldn't wait until I got to the end. I also found the only redeeming quality in this book to be the end. It was sad, heartbreaking, beautifully captured. But the rest of the book bored me to tears. The plot was also very cheesy, I was hoping it'd be more hunting new monsters and a new plot. Not an entire plot centered all on Anna. Don't get me wrong, she was an all right character. I just do not think she should have been the main plot, perhaps a sideplot? I'm not quite sure.