Name: My Blood Approves
Rating: 3.45 (20 reviews)
ISBN: 0557364639

My Blood Approves #1

My Blood Approves

I thought the story was great. The whole series had be wrapped up and I finished all four within a few days. It's hard not to make comparisons with the Twilight series but I liked this tale a lot more. It just felt more real to me and perhaps thats because the author is a lot younger and connected more with me. The action and adventure was great and you were always kept captivated and never bored. One thing I will note is that there are a lot of grammatical errors throughout the series and at one point I was thoroughly annoyed because it kept taking me out of the story. This is a good read so check it out!

Barbara Rosas

Si se puede, le doy a este libro un 0,5. 
Me sorprende que me le haya terminado, en la mitad del libro me dieron ganas de dejarlo.
En mi opinión esté libro es hueco, con una protagonista hueca y tonta, con una historia pobre y el libro parecía escrito por alguien de 10 años.
Alice es una de las peores protagonistas que jamás he visto, es tonta, hueca, ingenua, previsible y consentida, sí, con un hermano que le hace todo y con Mae tratándola como una niña.
Estos vampiros son unos de los peores que he visto, ¿sangré sin calorías? ¿En serio? ¿Están a dieta? ¿Club de vampiros? ¿Es un libro de chistes?
Esperé demasiado pero me decepciono demasiado, ni en sueños sigo con el otro libro, creo que ese no lo terminaría.

Danielle H.

So I am not sure what to give this book yet so I'll rate it after I write my rant review :)

Review
So...I started off liking this book, but then I don't know what happened. Suddenly I was reading it, and every little thing about it began to bug me. I found it so similar to Twilight in ways, so maybe that was it, but I don't know...I just got really annoyed by it. 

I read this last month, and can honestly say I don't remember the main character's name; that's never a good sign lol. *goes to look it up* Alice! Right, so now I got that, I can begin to rant about how stupid this girl is. Let's take a look at Exihibit A:
"Why did I have to feel like crying? I swear, I didn’t really cry this much."
 THIS IS A LIE! This girl cried more than any other lead female I had ever encountered in a book. 

Another thing about Alice that bugged me was how long it took to figure out what Jack is. Halfway through she jokes around and says werewolf. And I could understand that its not something you'd guess everyday, but it was so obvious:
" At first, I didn’t understand what he was doing, but then I felt his thumb stroking my jugular vein. He was feeling my pulse, and a look of sheer pleasure passed across his face. A warm hunger radiated from him that I didn’t grasp."
 Wouldn't a normal, sane person find this strange? Apparently Alice doesn't. And a few pages later:
"I still didn’t know what Jack and his family were, but they definitely couldn’t be trusted."
 Well first of all, he's this random stranger who gave you a ride home (knowing where you lived without even asking you), stroked your jugular vein (seriously, who does that?), and then there's the age difference: He tells her he's 24, and she's like 17, so yes I know, he's a vampire so he's even older, but 17 year old girls should not be hanging out with random, creepy 24 year old guys they met in the streets.
"But then, how exactly would I go about becoming one of them? And why would they even want me to? Just what the hell did he even mean by “one of them?” One of them what?"
 -_- .......

Oh, this next one is great. When she finally gets it right and he tells her he can't read her mind or something along those lines (sorry, really drawing a blank her), she says:
"“Are you crying?” His breath caught in his throat. 
“Why are you crying?” 
“Is there something wrong with me?” I wiped at my eyes."
 Yes! The fact that you're upset because his weird vampire powers don't work on you is really, weird. *Note here that she's crying, which, supposedly, she never does

I feel bad complaining so much about this book, but this is the honest truth about how I felt. Like I said, maybe I was having an off day or in a bad mood when I read this, but then again, maybe not. 

This line really annoyed me:
"There might be somewhere that I went that Milo couldn’t follow. As much as it would kill me to leave him behind, the thought of life without Jack and Peter sounded worse."
 What kind of person would abandon their brother who (view spoiler)[recently came out as gay (hide spoiler)] to move in with TWO vampires? I don't care how "hot" they are, that's just wrong. 

So I think I'm going to stop now, feeling as though I got my point across pretty clear. I didn't like this book. I really, really wanted too, but I just didn't. The whole time I read it, I was complaining to my friend about how annoying it was. But that doesn't mean other people won't like it; it just wasn't for me. So don't be discouraged & read it if you want :)

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