That Girl Who Ran Off and Kissed a Vampire by K.R.S. McEntire My rating: 3 of 5 stars

 

That Girl Who Ran Off and Kissed a Vampire by K.R.S. McEntire
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

this book sounded like something that would be right up my street, and although I did enjoy the story, it took a long time for the story to get going, and then it ended with a cliffhanger 🫣.

the MC is 18 years old, but was very naive and trusting, I don't know many Neurodivergent people but I just thought she was just a bit socially awkward, shy and being adopted felt like she 'had to be good'. I Saw a lot of my teenage self in her insecurities. and my brain never shuts up 🤷, if this is what being ND means maybe I'm one? but anyway whether the author wanted to label Raven or not, she was a likable character.

one thing didn't understand was the blurbs first paragraph
'quote' Eighteen-year-old Raven has always had a college, a stable job, and marriage to her high school sweetheart—all within the safe boundaries of her comfort zone'- unquote. this didn't make sense to me as:

1- she puts off college... to stay with her friend/boyfriend? so she's not got college?
2 - the stable job, she's had it for 3 weeks?
3 - she's not married, hasn't even got as far as sleeping with the boyfriend?

the blurb also says that Raven is adopted into a family of high achievers, which was an odd way to describe a librarian and a teacher, but anyway the family dynamics were a briefly described and not many scenes were with the parents, so you don't really get to show the family dynamics worked.

anyway onto the actual storyline:

so after the slow start the story got more interesting once she was in the other realm.

Hunter the vampire was an interesting character, he's lying to Raven, but also attracted to her, there was a bit of the 'Bella/Edward/twilight ' theme going on with them aka Hunter not being able to manipulate/read her mind...
shes attracted to him but he's using her, so it's sometimes a bit icky, but as the story progresses we meet more characters, and that brings more than just their attraction towards each other to the storyline, I thought the singing scene was good and I liked the unicorn a lot 😉.

as I said the book was a bit slow at getting going, but when at the end we are getting into more of the adventure, and I am getting into the book, it ends. 😔

I'm not a fan of cliffhanger book's, but the world and the characters that were introduced are enough that if asked I would review the next book.

thanks to the author and Gladys #XOXOtheNerdGirl #NerdGirlOfficial for the opportunity to review the book.
this is honest opinion and I have not received any compensation for this review.

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