Jess’s Reviews > Vampires of El Norte > Status Update
Jess
is 50% done
this is the second time this book has suddenly switched from third person limited to third person omniscient just for a sentence's spooky foreshadowing and I'm annoyed. Yeah, it's *easier* to go omniscient to tell the reader that the characters are being followed, but it's also lazy and less scary. It's setting up the next piece on the board but failing to build the atmosphere/tension.
— Sep 29, 2023 11:30PM
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Jess
is 66% done
Annnnnd we've hit the fake marriage trope. "Supernatural western" my arse, this is a romance novel with peripheral vampires and I am annoyed at being misled. I like romance, but I would not have picked up this book if I knew it was going to be (at least to the two-thirds mark) 5% vampires and 95% the heroine being a jerk to the hero because that's the trope we're doing
— Oct 02, 2023 03:07AM
Jess
is 63% done
Okay, so I think I've pinned down the two main problems with this book: 1. It's a romance novel that's been mislabelled as horror. 2. It's an underdeveloped romance novel that reads like a draft and spends too much time spoon-feeding the reader.
— Oct 02, 2023 02:22AM
Jess
is 48% done
aww man, I've been persisting because this has all the ingredients of something good, but this is the most spoon-feedy narration *and* the heroine just got confronted with incontrovertible evidence that the hero is telling the truth but she's still refusing to believe him... because the plot says so. 😬
— Sep 29, 2023 11:09PM
