All of my reviews can also be found on my goodreads account, although some might show some slight difference in the text (or be completely different, for all I know. Who knows what my brain is up to most of the time?). Sooooooo, who's the lucky book being reviewed today?
It starts with a D..
It's kind of ironic, though. I had the idea of creating this blog after I saw an awesome facebook page called "Eat Sleep Read." The funny part is that the first book I'm reviewing is called
Drink, Slay, Love.
Ever heard of it?
Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Genre: YA paranormal
My Rating: 5 stars
General feeling: adorably cute.
So you’re used to vampires trying to control the world, strolling around draining people dry and occasionally falling in love with moronic humans?
So you’re used to werewolves and all that?
You want something new?
Well, then that’s the book for you.
No more vampire drama; here the feel is like you’re inside an Adam Family environment. The vampires sleep through the day, wake up at night, steal cars when they feel like it, and make out.
Oh, and play chess for fifty years trying to beat themselves.
As for werewolves, witches, and mythological creatures, guess what?
You have were-unicorns.
Yeah, you heard that right.
Honestly, when I first read that, I burst out laughing. No wonder Pearl did, too.
So, our heroine is out at nearly dawn, catching a little snack before going to sleep (how normal it sounds), and suddenly a sparkly unicorn appears in front of her. And stakes her. Hi – La – Rious.
Pearl isn’t even angry at the unicorn—mostly she’s shocked. Not only has she just discovered an utterly funny mythological creature she'd never believed in does actually exist, with the appearance of a sparkly horse (did Stephenie Meyer think of this before writing Edward Cullen’s description?) and a nice horn protruding from his head——and his wrist, and the palm of his hand, occasionally,—— but she also gets staked by "it".
This was probably the funniest read I’ve had in a while.
I loved the main character. Her name is Pearl, and she's a badass. She doesn’t care what people say (only because they’re human and she’s got this whole vampires-are-better complex in her head, but still) and has the guts to make fun of a teacher.
Plus she humiliates the drama-queen of the school, gets a crowd of students following her every step, and has the hottest boyfriend among vampires.
Yep, she’s a badass.
All changes, anyway, when sparkly-corny decides to stake her, and she starts to go through an internal crisis. Ergo, she suddenly feels guilty for drinking from humans (seriously, when did that ever happen to a vampire? except for Edward Cullen and Stefan Salvatore, that is), she starts having conversations with humans and——tum tum tum——enjoying them.
That is so not good. She was raised to hate humans, to consider them inferior. So you see how the situation's making her desperate. She doesn’t know what to do.
It doesn’t help that her parents keep pushing her over the edge, making her work night and day——literally, not even caring how she feels.
She’s not the same, and she cannot go back.
So what will she do, betray everybody who’s been only kind to her since the beginning, or keep faithful to those who never really cared about her?
The choice sounds simple, but there’s more to it than that.
Even in this situation, though, she never lacks her sarcasm and her I-don’t-give-a-damn attitude, which is the part I like more about her. Plus when I read things like “She wasn’t one hundred percent sure she’d show up in a photo. Ordinary vampires didn’t. On the other hand, ordinary vampires didn’t attend junior proms with were-unicorn dates while plotting to sabotage plans for a mass murder”, I was literally rolling on the floor laughing.
This book had both good characters and a brilliant sense of humor going on for it, so to me it was awesome. Unicorns! Hahahaha. I can't get past that. If you're feeling like a funny read, then do read this one book. It's really hilarious.
This can also be found at: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/206772115
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