Review: Bite Me! – You Know I Like It by Fae Quin
SYNOPSIS:
The spooky boys series invites you to visit a world where things that go bump in the night aren’t just fantasy. These standalone novels feature monsters that are spicy, fun, and sometimes furry.
Blair
I’d been waiting my whole life to run. When I uncovered hidden papers detailing my inheritance, I knew my time had come. I packed my trunk full of plant babies, black nail polish, and determination. With my demons in the rearview mirror and my trauma for company I made my way to Elmwood. The remote Maine mountain town is home to my future, a potential love interest, and a lot of really weird, possibly deadly secrets.
Richard
Until recently, the most interesting thing in my life had been solving a particularly difficult Sunday crossword. Even my vampiric transformation hadn’t disrupted my life much— it was still boring and repetitive, albeit with more blood than I’d previously dealt with. When newcomer Blair —a charming five foot vegan ball of rage— blows into town, it’s all I can do not to follow him like a love-sick puppy…He’s everything I’ve been missing, but there’s a catch: I need to spy on him and convince the Council he’s innocent of his mother’s crimes. Here’s hoping I don’t end up with a corpse instead of a boyfriend.
Follow Blair, a boy who loves the fanged and furry, as he discovers the secrets of the night and also how to be loved by his very own vampire.
REVIEW:
I had high, high hopes for this book. I have previously read Fae Quin and enjoyed her stories but this book was honestly painful to finish. I almost DNF-ed it on several occasions and it took me almost two weeks to finish. The problems lie within several different factors.
So to start off, the cover and synopsis all had me hyped. It sounded like the vampire read I have been searching for with the promise of other paranormal beings. I couldn’t wait to start but the book was so long and unnecessarily so. At least 200 pages could have been removed from this novel and honestly it would have made the story flow better. There are pages of random internal monologues that don’t contribute anything to the story, it’s just random ramblings. There is also a lot of repetition, we are repeating Blair’s sad story in 50 different ways throughout the book and it was too much. We get it, he has a tragic backstory, will he ever move past it? At this rate, it doesn’t feel likely.
Then there is the pacing. The story and plot line are enticing but the whole pacing of the story is off. I get trying to set up for the next book in the series, but it got to the point where it started to take away from Blair and Richard. But you spend the whole book listening to Blair’s sadness, etc., etc. and the last 15% is when all the rushed action happened and we finally get answers to everything. The story needed to be finessed more and paced better.
Blair and Richard spend so much time together throughout the story yet I still feel their relationship is superficial. It lacks any depth and dimension. The sex scenes and intimacy didn’t feel like it fit and most of their bonding happened immediately after some Blair based traumatic event occurred. The ending where a certain character is ‘forgiven’ absolutely NOT! I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room, that character didn’t deserve a second chance. I was also left with more questions than answers, especially around Blair’s ‘brother’, Jeffrey.
Overall the entire books pace was slow as molasse and then rushed to finish line that doesn’t give the closure you want. So that being said, I don’t know if I will start the second story at all.
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