Darkness Falls (Darkness Falls, Book 1)
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. This has become a current and regrettably ever so popular trend in the Y. I was more then frustrated with the number of times the author fell onto the 'You don't 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. Yet Somehow it is all ok in the next chapter. 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. This book was soo close to being a 2.
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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".
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I don't think I will finish this series, but who knows. 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. The plot is faulted, little action, TONS of questions, annoying, damn annoying characters. 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.
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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. 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.
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Secrets that could lead to a cure. Darkness Falls Series , Book 1 Category: March 16, Words: Learn more about Jessica Sorensen. Also by This Author. Readers of This Book Also Read. Log-in to write a review or add a video review. This should have been a really good book. Kayla was a tough character who is willing to risk her life to take on the vampires to get supplies for her colony who live safely underground. It seemed like she was the only one willing to do what needed to be done so you'd think the colony would've been grateful. Makes you wonder who they got to do their dirty work once she was cast aside.
The colony was a bit weird but I found it intriguing that the smallest slip up like talking out of turn or looking at the wrong person could get you in big trouble.
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I'm not saying that the first section of the book didn't have it faults but it was at least keeping me interested enough to read on. My issue with the colony was the Higher things. I didn't like them and didn't fully get what they were or why they were treating people so badly.
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Still it did make it satisfying when Kayla started to take them on and gets into trouble. I did get annoyed when nobody wanted to answer her questions about the Highers. After The Gathering, Kayla wakes up outside in a bodybag with a former friend who now seems to be a rude, obnoxious asshat and the weird creepy girl that you want to stay the hell away from. Their wanderings around the desert didn't seem to have much point except to let two of them argue and the other make weird comments all the time.
Basically from this point on, I barely understood what was meant to be happening. Kayla was naturally on the defensive as the outsiders were trying to capture her and didn't really look as if they wanted to be friends, yet they blame her for fighting them and don't like or trust her because of it which annoyed me. Nobody will give a straight answer to any of her questions which bugged the hell out of me.
The reader wants to see Kayla's memories and know all about The Gathering or colony secrets etc. It is one thing to slowly feed the frustrated reader bits at a time to tease them but it is another thing to just tell them virtually nothing important! I lost interest when these outsiders came into the story and it all started going weird.