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Originally posted on my blog: The Bibliophile's Corner

This book jumps right in the middle of the action. I found this both good and bad. Good because I liked how we didn't have to sit through three or four chapters just getting to the masquerade. Bad because I think for this particular book, sitting through a couple of chapters to lead us into this world may have actually been helpful.

The synopsis versus the first couple of chapters really threw me off. Jill is the first character that we are introduced to and we get to know more about her in the beginning then we do Nicky. And right from the beginning, I really liked Jill. She was pretty accessible and I felt kind of bad for her. She is essentially a spy and a pawn in a bigger game.

Nicky comes in later as she makes a dramatic entrance with the rest of the girls in black. The girls in black are contestants in an old tradition where the winner becomes a vampire and the loser becomes the winner's first meal. Nicky, much like Jill, is part of an organization and a huge agenda. I really enjoyed getting to see Nicky's past as well and seeing how she had to grow up. It made me like her all the more for it.

While I enjoyed Jill and Nicky, there are only a couple of other characters that I like. Ryan, the golden boy outcast and Kim, the royal bitch and shoe-in for winning the contest. Ryan seems like a really sweet guy and I am hoping to see him make the right choice in book two. Kim, I love because she is the prime example of queen bee and I love when a character really embodies this. Also, part of me actually feels sorry for her. By the age of three, her father and mother already had her blackmailing and hurting people. I can't really blame her for turning out the way she did.

Aside from the characters, I found this world of vamps being in government pretty believable and original. I'm so thrilled that there is no human-vamp love as well. I also love the mention of Farms, for vamps to get their food from. These are how vamps should be. Beautiful, immortal, bored, and scary. My biggest problem with the vamps however is that we are only told about them, not really shown. There are only two scenes that stand out in my mind that showcase the vampiness. Everything else is just being told to me.

My downfall with this book was the pacing and the wordiness. The pace was pretty steady at the beginning, then it started to lull some, then it picked up again, and then it started to lull again. Also, there are a couple of scenes I skimmed the paragraphs trying to get to the dialogue and the point of the particular scene. As a side editing note, I completely think that had the author done a bit more editing, he could have cut down the not necessary parts and made book two (which is not out until later this year) as the second half of this book. But that is just my personal opinion.

Overall, this book is good. I found myself strangely pulled to it even when my writer side of me was wishing it would have been executed differently. The characters are fun to get to know, the setting and world building was interesting and pretty well put together. I do recommend this book as a fun, fast read. Especially if you like vamps and have a thing for masquerade balls.


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The Homecoming Masquerade Girls Wearing Black Book One eBook Spencer Baum Reviews

I love to read...and I love vampire stories. This one has an interesting plot with a world or at least a city whose wealthy not only knew about vampires (aka immortals in this story) but wanted to become one of them. So why the low review? The execution of the plot left me wanting. There were many (and I mean nearly every page) long passages of either background info that was tedious (definitely could have been revealed differently) or these passages were action that were told through character thoughts rather than revealed through action. So one star was lost for that. There was a definite cliffhanger and I really hate cliffhangers so that was a star off. Sorry but I won't be reading the next one.
In a suburb of the nation’s capital lies Thorndike Academy, the world’s most exclusive high school where only the richest, most powerful and influential can get their children in. Where the vampires, or immortals as they prefer to be called, who secretly run the government have created a game. Any girl who shows up to the Homecoming masquerade ball wearing black enters herself in a contest unlike any other. Coronation is a fundraising campaign where the winning girl joins the immortals while the loser becomes her first meal.

In a contest where only the most well-connected girls from the wealthiest, most powerful families can hope to win it surprises everyone when Thorndike newcomer Nicky Bloom arrives to homecoming wearing black. As the night progresses and rumors begin to spread it becomes clear that Nicky Bloom is far more than she seems.

The initial faceoff at the dance between Kim Renwick and Nicky Bloom sets them apart and the battle lines are drawn as Nicky attempts to win supporters while Kim works to cement her position as the one to back. While Kim plays on everyone’s fear of her and her family, Nicky with the help of Jill try to show them that there they have another option.

The story has an interesting premise, the rebel Network with their plan to take down the immortals. The characters were well written and fit the extremely wealthy and entitled cliché. Unfortunately, I feel like it fell short of its potential. The story seemed unbalanced, at times giving too much attention to backstory and not enough to here-and-now (meaning the dance).
Originally posted on my blog The Bibliophile's Corner

This book jumps right in the middle of the action. I found this both good and bad. Good because I liked how we didn't have to sit through three or four chapters just getting to the masquerade. Bad because I think for this particular book, sitting through a couple of chapters to lead us into this world may have actually been helpful.

The synopsis versus the first couple of chapters really threw me off. Jill is the first character that we are introduced to and we get to know more about her in the beginning then we do Nicky. And right from the beginning, I really liked Jill. She was pretty accessible and I felt kind of bad for her. She is essentially a spy and a pawn in a bigger game.

Nicky comes in later as she makes a dramatic entrance with the rest of the girls in black. The girls in black are contestants in an old tradition where the winner becomes a vampire and the loser becomes the winner's first meal. Nicky, much like Jill, is part of an organization and a huge agenda. I really enjoyed getting to see Nicky's past as well and seeing how she had to grow up. It made me like her all the more for it.

While I enjoyed Jill and Nicky, there are only a couple of other characters that I like. Ryan, the golden boy outcast and Kim, the royal bitch and shoe-in for winning the contest. Ryan seems like a really sweet guy and I am hoping to see him make the right choice in book two. Kim, I love because she is the prime example of queen bee and I love when a character really embodies this. Also, part of me actually feels sorry for her. By the age of three, her father and mother already had her blackmailing and hurting people. I can't really blame her for turning out the way she did.

Aside from the characters, I found this world of vamps being in government pretty believable and original. I'm so thrilled that there is no human-vamp love as well. I also love the mention of Farms, for vamps to get their food from. These are how vamps should be. Beautiful, immortal, bored, and scary. My biggest problem with the vamps however is that we are only told about them, not really shown. There are only two scenes that stand out in my mind that showcase the vampiness. Everything else is just being told to me.

My downfall with this book was the pacing and the wordiness. The pace was pretty steady at the beginning, then it started to lull some, then it picked up again, and then it started to lull again. Also, there are a couple of scenes I skimmed the paragraphs trying to get to the dialogue and the point of the particular scene. As a side editing note, I completely think that had the author done a bit more editing, he could have cut down the not necessary parts and made book two (which is not out until later this year) as the second half of this book. But that is just my personal opinion.

Overall, this book is good. I found myself strangely pulled to it even when my writer side of me was wishing it would have been executed differently. The characters are fun to get to know, the setting and world building was interesting and pretty well put together. I do recommend this book as a fun, fast read. Especially if you like vamps and have a thing for masquerade balls.