Skarlet Review

Who loves the creatures that go bump in the night? I personally have a love and hate relationship with Vampire novels because in most cases it has the Anna Rice formula of being ancient and in love with a human. There is nothing wrong with that formula, but it make finding really good vampire books hard because most of them are really a romance book masquerading has a vampire book. I enjoy those romantic vampire novels as much as anyone else, but there is a time and place for them. I would rather read about the vampires being monsters or dealing with living in the human world. If the romantic vampire books can give me that then its a good vampire book.

This time the book was a ARC given to me in a Goodreads giveaway of Skarlet by Thomas Emson. I am going to give this book a honest review because all books need those honest reviews. The premise of the story sounded intriguing so, I went into the novel wanting to find out the juicy secret lying within. The structure of the book is broken into five parts with over a hundred chapters with just under four hundred pages which means a chapter a page. However the structure with the story was still interesting it had a steady pace throughout the novel until the climax of the story allowing for the characters to be believable and grounded. At times the book felt and is aware of its average nature because the book wasn't the greatest and not the worst it might be overlook by most people. Fair warning with this novel the language is quite heavy, but what do you expect from adult talking to adult when they are angry. If after all I said and you still reading this, then you might want to pick this up if you are into paranormal or need a new vampire series to read. I will let you know that one of my favorite part in the book was in part five which was a great tie-in to the other novels in the Vampire Trinity. All in all, this book is average in its best form allowing for people to love or hate this book or to even overlook this novel. How about you read this novel and determine if you think its a crap book, an average book or a complete masterpiece? This has been your surrogate crazy signing off, live in let live.

-crazyC