Giorgia Reads's Reviews > Darkfever

4 stars

I didn't expect to like a character who talks so much about accessorising and colour coordinating her outfits during what could very well be the - end of the world as we know it - kind of moment in history BUT I found her endearing and truthfully I can see why she'd cling so hard to the part of her that existed before she found out some hard truths about the world and herself.

I loved how the heroine didn’t transform overnight into some badass chosen one wannabe saviour and accepted her new reality like it was a given.

She was a normal girl who knew the following things: •she was pretty • she was loved by her family • she had friends • she loved primping herself and looking like a southern barbie • she was going to live her life in the small town she was born in • she was going to marry a pretty boy and have pretty babies which would be raised in the same town in a house with a white picket fence.

And guess what? She was happy with that. She didn’t need more and mourning the loss of her future, of her simple, uncomplicated life while trying to keep her spirits up by painting her nails every possible shade of pink didn’t make her shallow. It made her human and relatable.

Needless to say I loved the heroine. She didn’t think herself smarter than she was or braver than she was. She just accepted that whichever state she was in, she was gonna have to survive day by day.

I loved how engaging as well as quick and easy to read this was.

This first book felt like a big introduction to a world I wanna know more of and the characters are intriguing with enough mystery surrounding them to cover a few more books.

I have to mention though, having read a lot of fantasy written after 2010, there is a certain something that the books written before that time have. Can't really describe the feeling but suffice to say, I like it.

Full RTC later (if i feel like it :D).