Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on April 24, 2009

I finished another book!  Yay me!

Dark Side of the Moon by Sharrilyn Kenyon.

Okay, so, my mom loves to give presents.  I think this is well established.  And, she tends to choose her gifts kind of like Amazon suggestions:  “If you liked this book, than you might like these five books.”  You get the idea…I hope.

Anyway, so I assume my mom chose this particular book because I liked the Twilight series, and this book was about vampires.  Okay, I get that.  But, OMG!  This was what John would call a “Bodice ripper” that was disguised as a book about vampires.  There were sex scene’s in this novel that, quite frankly, made me blush.  The rest of the novel was a convoluted attempt to create a mythology which included Greek Gods, vampires, and vampire hunters.  She also throws in demi-gods and shape shifters for good measure.  I couldn’t keep up!  There was SO much going on that it got to the point where I just stopped trying.  This was the first book in a series, and I can ensure you I won’t bother with the rest of them, so I didn’t feel the need to keep track.

In addition, the dialogue was completely absurd.  I have never read a book where there were SO many cliche’s.  The 3000 year old shape shifting vampire hunter actually said to his tabloid reporter girl friend, “Don’t worry, Babe.”  And told her his previous girl friend got “wiggy.”  It just didn’t fit with the rest of the mythology or the characters Kenyon was trying to create.

Sadly, this was NOT a good book.  I would NOT recommend it to anyone.  I only give it one star, because even though I didn’t like the book, I was able to finish it which is at least something.