My Review: Overall: 2 out of 5 Cover: 1 out of 5 ***Disclaimer: These views are my own opinion. I will always recommend people to read the novel and form their own opinion.*** The FireFly by Nancy Gray tells the story of a girl named Leila who finds her younger sister the prey of a type of vampire capable of taking the form of a firefly. In order to save her sister, Leila offers herself to the beast while working with her friends on a way to defeat the monster. To begin, I am an avid fan of folklore so that is literally the only thing that captured my attention for this read. This review will be relatively short because while I found inklings of a shiver, it did not deliver on the horror aspect. However, for a middle grade, it did a decent job of entertaining me. The characters are very shallow. I did not feel any connection whatsoever. I feel the description of the world did not exist and I could never get immersed into what was going on. These are very fatal in trying to keep a reader's attention. I highly recommend they be revisited in subsequent installations. My favorite character was the vampire himself, because, as I said, I'm an avid fan of folklore. When reading a horror, I expect to feel suspense. A continuous building of tension and lingering sense of hopelessness in the plot. I felt nor saw none of this here. It was unrealistic to think kids could come up with such a quick solution. What bugged me most (no pun intended) was the cover. It was very amateur and unprofessional in appearance. From what I've learned, having an eye-catching cover can be the author's first line of defense to sell. Overall, I'm sorry but this was just bad. While I usually try to give author's chances because I know we tend to grow as we write more titles, I'm going to have a hard time returning to this one.
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AuthorMy name is Iona Caldwell. I'm the author of the British Occult Fiction, Beneath London's Fog set to be published by FyreSyde Publishing October 2019. When I'm not busy weaving worlds of the arcane and dark, I'm spending time out in nature. I love books. My biggest inspirations are H.P Lovecraft, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Edgar Allen Poe. I blog about many things but mostly everything bookish. Archives
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