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Darkness Falls eBook Jessica Sorensen

**Notice: My review contains SPOILERS.***

Whenever I give a book (or item) a review that doesn't make the fans happy, I get a fair amount of 'not helpful' clicks. I know that these come from emotional based responses from the fans. Never the less, these "not helpful" clicks by the fans have caused me to shy away from giving anything, but the best books (items) an Amazon review.
But I feel to be honest and fair to those who will be paying for the book, it is worth the knocks on my Amazons 'over all review ratings' percentage to put my review out here. As this book has a large number of 5 stars ratings, but I feel that potential buyers deserve the other side of the coin. Personally, I wish I had known a little bit more about what I was paying for before I got this book.

I give this book three stars and I feel that I am being generous doing so. I feel that three stars is an average read. I give my stars on an 'overall' (flow-plot-characters and so on) view of the book.

What I liked about the book. It has good action combat scenes. It starts off with a steady pace and keeps at that same pace. I liked the book cover. I liked the storyline (just not the execution of it).

What did not work for me about the book.
The characters especially (our protagonist) seem flat. Kayla falls into the Y. A. stereotypical 'heroine' who needs a man (teenage boy) do tell her what to do/think/feel. This has become a current and regrettably ever so popular trend in the Y. A. Dystopian genre.

I was more then frustrated with the number of times the author fell onto the 'You don't know? You should know. You should remember by now or, someone should have already told you. I promise I will tell you but not right now, later. You can trust me.' Then of course they never get around to telling her, and they end up betraying her (repeatedly). Yet Somehow it is all ok in the next chapter. Really? You call that suspense? I found it annoying.

Also what I did not enjoy about the book was the way the author 'borrows' from other books or movies. Without giving too much away I will say, you know in the movie the Matrix , the red pill (remember everything) the blue pill (forget). Yeah the author 'borrowed' that. Except it was a syringe of white fluid vs one of purple fluid.
Now I feel it is ok to gently 'borrow' a storyline, provided you have your own take on how the plot and characters should be. But I do not feel it is OK to 'borrow' a scene from someone else's work. If the author could not find a way to give Kayla and the others a way to choose to remember or forget without so heavily 'borrowing' then she should have skipped that all together.

I will not be continuing on in this series.
However I am sure there are readers who might like this series like those who enjoy the YA Dystopian teen-romance genre.


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Darkness Falls eBook Jessica Sorensen Reviews

Kayla Juniper is a Bellator, which is essentially a fighter/hunter for the Colony. Set in a dystopian universe where the world outside the Colony is overrun by vampires and these creatures called Day Takers, the Colony is a safe haven for those who chose safety over freedom. The Colony is run by beings known as Highers, and regulated by their sidekicks, known as Watchers. The Highers are like demonic, evil angels and cannot be killed except by another Higher. Kayla has few friends in the Colony and has a bunch of strange superpowers, she can hear heartbeats, know if someone is telling the truth and can sense their feelings through a kiss, is never afraid, has super speed, and strangest of all, she can walk among vampires and they flee her like the plague, they're terrified of her. Kayla doesn't know why this happens but it makes her near invincible against the vampires and a valuable asset to the Colony, the Highers, or whoever can get their hands on her. Kayla's mentor is a doctor named Monarch, who injects her daily with some sort of magical serum under the pretense that she will die without it, that there's a problem with her blood. Monarch is all she has, her parents died during the vampire invasion and since her rescue Monarch has been her only parent figure. Kayla is chosen for The Gathering. The Gathering is a ritual where certain Bellators are selected and what happens to them afterwards is unclear. Kayla wakes up in a desert in a body bag surrounded by others also in body bags. Her heart is no longer beating. Kayla and her desert companions are "rescued" by an attractive guy named Aiden and taken to a community built into a hill. All of those previously chosen for The Gathering now live in this community, those who didn't choose to take the serum provided for them when they woke from their slumber in the body bags. Kayla learns the truth about her past, about the gruesome experiments on children, plots to restore the world to what it was before the vampire infestation, and starts to regain her medically suppressed memories. As Kayla's view of the world starts to change, she begins to learn the truth about what is real and just how much of what she thought she knew was really just an elaborate game of manipulation for a more sinister cause.

Deals with important themes and explorations of the human psyche, like how one reacts to fear, loss of memory, betrayal, and just how much one's willing to give up for safety.

Depiction of vampires in a very nontraditional way, as decaying, bleeding, pieces of walking flesh, more like zombies than Edward Cullen.

The Darkness Falls world is very well-defined and detailed, down to the most minor details. The infrastructure is intense and full of complex relationships between the victim and the victimized.

CONS
Typos, grammatical errors, and incorrect tenses.

Weird love triangle was infuriating.

Felt like the first half of the book was drawn out and could have been edited down.

No good description of Kayla.

If you liked the Angelfire series and/or Gena Showalter's Intertwined series you would probably find this enjoyable.
Awful. Plain and simple.
Atrocious grammar!! The book needs editing and proof read like people need air.
Words that are being used in wrong contexts, words that are swapped.
Not to mention the awful usage of Romanian language in the book; one might think that when writing a book and you want to use a foreign language, one might actually use a translator that's not Google. It makes no sense whatsoever. It has no meaning 90% of the time, just random words thrown together.
The plot is faulted, little action, TONS of questions, annoying, damn annoying characters.
Jesus!
This book was soo close to being a 2.5 but I gave it extra points because I love Jessica Sorenson and the many other books and series of hers that I have read.
This story started out ok. The characters were just ok and I got in to it. I wanted to know what was going on, what was about to happen but then it just kinda stalled out. It got to the point where the story would move two paces forward and then five paces backwards. It became annoying when it seemed like every other chapter the dialogue between Kayla and Aiden basically boiled down to "I'm sorry I lied to you, I promise nothing but honesty from now on". Wash, rinse, repeat. I don't think I will finish this series, but who knows.

I have nothing but love for every other book/series that I have read by Jessica Sorenson.
**Notice My review contains SPOILERS.***

Whenever I give a book (or item) a review that doesn't make the fans happy, I get a fair amount of 'not helpful' clicks. I know that these come from emotional based responses from the fans. Never the less, these "not helpful" clicks by the fans have caused me to shy away from giving anything, but the best books (items) an review.
But I feel to be honest and fair to those who will be paying for the book, it is worth the knocks on my s 'over all review ratings' percentage to put my review out here. As this book has a large number of 5 stars ratings, but I feel that potential buyers deserve the other side of the coin. Personally, I wish I had known a little bit more about what I was paying for before I got this book.

I give this book three stars and I feel that I am being generous doing so. I feel that three stars is an average read. I give my stars on an 'overall' (flow-plot-characters and so on) view of the book.

What I liked about the book. It has good action combat scenes. It starts off with a steady pace and keeps at that same pace. I liked the book cover. I liked the storyline (just not the execution of it).

What did not work for me about the book.
The characters especially (our protagonist) seem flat. Kayla falls into the Y. A. stereotypical 'heroine' who needs a man (teenage boy) do tell her what to do/think/feel. This has become a current and regrettably ever so popular trend in the Y. A. Dystopian genre.

I was more then frustrated with the number of times the author fell onto the 'You don't know? You should know. You should remember by now or, someone should have already told you. I promise I will tell you but not right now, later. You can trust me.' Then of course they never get around to telling her, and they end up betraying her (repeatedly). Yet Somehow it is all ok in the next chapter. Really? You call that suspense? I found it annoying.

Also what I did not enjoy about the book was the way the author 'borrows' from other books or movies. Without giving too much away I will say, you know in the movie the Matrix , the red pill (remember everything) the blue pill (forget). Yeah the author 'borrowed' that. Except it was a syringe of white fluid vs one of purple fluid.
Now I feel it is ok to gently 'borrow' a storyline, provided you have your own take on how the plot and characters should be. But I do not feel it is OK to 'borrow' a scene from someone else's work. If the author could not find a way to give Kayla and the others a way to choose to remember or forget without so heavily 'borrowing' then she should have skipped that all together.

I will not be continuing on in this series.
However I am sure there are readers who might like this series like those who enjoy the YA Dystopian teen-romance genre.