Title: Die For Me
(Beautiful Cover! One of my favorites!)
Author: Amy Plum
Release Date: May 10th 2011
Pages: 341 pages (Hardback)
Description from Goodreads:
In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate
that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.
When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident,
she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in
Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of
books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.
Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent
threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As
she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a
revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and
over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in
a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder
and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be
safe again.
Review:
This was so blah.
Die for Me started off on a good foot. The cover was beautiful, the setting was in Paris (how cool is that), and it had a unique supernatural aspect to it. It was great for all of about 12 pages. It only took twelve pages for the love interest to be introduced and for my mind to explode. It only took about 20 pages for main protagonist to be completely smitten. Plum tried to give Kate a mind of her own by making her one of those rare girls who doesn’t go gaga over a guy because he’s hot and lets her ignore is asinine behavior, but that doesn’t last long. Very shortly after they meet it becomes one of the worst insta love books I have read since Twilight. Kate of course falls head over heels for Vincent and I have no idea why, he is so unremarkable it’s comical.
What really got me was that other than the main characters, the rest of the people in the book seemed to just serve as plot devices. Her parents were dead and her grandparents basically let her do as she pleased. Thank god the school setting was not used in this book; that would have pushed it over the edge, but if she was going to be given so much free reign Plum should have just made her an adult. Kate’s sister was used in the book as well. She was shown often, but overall she never grew as a character and was just used so that she could be used as a damsel in distress against Kate by the antagonist at the end. It was just sad.
The insta love in this book was sickening. At one point when Kate and her sister were out walking they saw Vincent and his friend trying to save a person attempting suicide. They pretended they were cops and lied to her. Throw in a random sword fight (Kate thought it was gang action ha wow) and you have the weirdest situation ever. How did she react? Freaked at first, but later when forced to be with him she didn’t care. Even after he lies to her, impersonates being a cop, admits to stalking her, and calmly watches his friend die she feels “completely safe” with him. Wow.
I was cringing so much at the so called “romance” in this book. At one point Kate thinks “however bad a person he is, he cares about me.”
Die for Me started off on a good foot. The cover was beautiful, the setting was in Paris (how cool is that), and it had a unique supernatural aspect to it. It was great for all of about 12 pages. It only took twelve pages for the love interest to be introduced and for my mind to explode. It only took about 20 pages for main protagonist to be completely smitten. Plum tried to give Kate a mind of her own by making her one of those rare girls who doesn’t go gaga over a guy because he’s hot and lets her ignore is asinine behavior, but that doesn’t last long. Very shortly after they meet it becomes one of the worst insta love books I have read since Twilight. Kate of course falls head over heels for Vincent and I have no idea why, he is so unremarkable it’s comical.
What really got me was that other than the main characters, the rest of the people in the book seemed to just serve as plot devices. Her parents were dead and her grandparents basically let her do as she pleased. Thank god the school setting was not used in this book; that would have pushed it over the edge, but if she was going to be given so much free reign Plum should have just made her an adult. Kate’s sister was used in the book as well. She was shown often, but overall she never grew as a character and was just used so that she could be used as a damsel in distress against Kate by the antagonist at the end. It was just sad.
The insta love in this book was sickening. At one point when Kate and her sister were out walking they saw Vincent and his friend trying to save a person attempting suicide. They pretended they were cops and lied to her. Throw in a random sword fight (Kate thought it was gang action ha wow) and you have the weirdest situation ever. How did she react? Freaked at first, but later when forced to be with him she didn’t care. Even after he lies to her, impersonates being a cop, admits to stalking her, and calmly watches his friend die she feels “completely safe” with him. Wow.
I was cringing so much at the so called “romance” in this book. At one point Kate thinks “however bad a person he is, he cares about me.”
For some reason everyone in this book is freaking insane,
and it’s seen as completely normal. Everyone, not just Vincent, has the creepy
Edward stalker issue. Vincent watches her every night. He admits to knowing
where she lives, and what she likes to do. There is one point in the book where
Kate wonders how he knows her number, and he admits to stealing her phone while
she was in the bathroom and calling himself so he would have it.
Beware everyone if someone helps you
cross the street and saves you from a runaway bus they might be behind every
corner watching your every move. It makes a little since why they do this but
the way they stalk Kate is just creepy. And she acts like it’s no big thing.
When the action finally kicks in and we are reminded there IS actually a plot and an antagonist it’s like a big shock. It was so out of the blue it was almost as if it was an afterthought. The author was like: Romance, romance, romance, mention of supernatural beings, romance, death, romance, break up, brooding, romance, romance, sexytime, oh yeah it’s probably time for some action BAM! Bet you didn’t see that one coming.
Where was the antagonist hiding the whole book? The whole story he just shows up once (with the sister of course) is mentioned a few times, and then randomly out of the blue comes into the story and is actually kind of creepy. He just takes over the book and I was excited.
At the end of the story after everyone has been chased around by the antagonist, someone’s head gets chopped off and Kate’s sister is exposed to the fact that there are supernatural beings; everything goes back to normal like nothing ever happened. Yay, lets ignore the room full of blood and the smell of burning flesh and dance around and make out and have a party. And everyone can live happily ever after in a house full of creepy stalkerish people while Kate and Vincent make goo goo eyes at each other 24/7.
The
only good thing, besides the setting was the supernatural aspect. I have to say
I was pleasantly surprised to find out what they really were. The idea behind
the revenants was very unique and kinda creepy-cool. I applaud that, but
overall Die for Me was just not for me, and I really wanted this one to be
good. When the action finally kicks in and we are reminded there IS actually a plot and an antagonist it’s like a big shock. It was so out of the blue it was almost as if it was an afterthought. The author was like: Romance, romance, romance, mention of supernatural beings, romance, death, romance, break up, brooding, romance, romance, sexytime, oh yeah it’s probably time for some action BAM! Bet you didn’t see that one coming.
Where was the antagonist hiding the whole book? The whole story he just shows up once (with the sister of course) is mentioned a few times, and then randomly out of the blue comes into the story and is actually kind of creepy. He just takes over the book and I was excited.
At the end of the story after everyone has been chased around by the antagonist, someone’s head gets chopped off and Kate’s sister is exposed to the fact that there are supernatural beings; everything goes back to normal like nothing ever happened. Yay, lets ignore the room full of blood and the smell of burning flesh and dance around and make out and have a party. And everyone can live happily ever after in a house full of creepy stalkerish people while Kate and Vincent make goo goo eyes at each other 24/7.
Pro’s
Paris (awesome)
Cool Zombies
Pretty cover
Cons
Stalkers
Insta love
Plot
Missing adults
Basically everything
I give this book 2 stars for originality and setting, but that’s being nice.
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