The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire Book Review

Author: Abigail Gibbs

Date of Publication: March 5, 2013 (Paperback)

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

Pages: 544

Genre: YA, Paranormal

Paperback or Kindle: Both

Fiery Fantasy Thoughts

With all the hype around this novel, I had to read this vampire book.

This story gave me mixed feelings, therefore I do apologise if this isn't a more straight-forward review.

Firstly, Violent is a young lady who stumbles across a massacre in Trafalgar Square, London. She tries to hide but is found and kidnapped by some affluent vampires who realise she witnessed what they had done.

Now, up until now, Violent didn't realise vampires were real, but they are and the government also know about their existence (along with her father) and the vampires use her as a pawn (as they realise her connections to the government after they hold her prisoner) to gain more power over the government and to fulfil an ancient prophecy.

In the beginning, I enjoyed Violet’s sassy character as she was a bold, smart mouth heroine that we are un-used to seeing in a typical vampire story, however this soon changed as her dangerous and sickening relationship developed with Kaspar, who would only give her attention in the form of violence when she would annoy him or not do as he asked.

Being a sexist, chauvinistic, spoilt vampire, who is clearly used to getting what he wants, he is constantly angered by Violet’s inability to do as he says straight away and uses violence and threats to get her to submit.

I did not like this aspect to the story because although many vampire stories are male orientated and the females in these books are usually submissive; they do not advocate violence and try to make it romantic.

This is a long book that started off well but dipped and went downhill in the middle when nothing really happened.

Also, I think some of the story was flawed as I was confused as to why the government couldn’t do more to get rid of these vampires.

I admire Gibbs for writing this at such a young age but with the constant violence which was just accepted by Violent throughout the book, flaws in some sections of the story and grammatical issues (some paragraphs needed to be cut shorter), I can only give this novel 2 wings out of 5 as although it was an interesting read, I think it put across the wrong message about romance to the younger side of the YA audience.

  

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Alana