‘And I fear some have no choice in who they are. If the sun wanted to change his course just to see the moon, look at what he would have to destroy to get there.” Layton turned her over into the sand and lay over her, his hold on her wrist still tight. “And yet, I think he would do it.”


I don’t even know what to write in this review for fear I’ll give the whole game away and what a game it is. This is another case of a story starting off really strong, being able to hook a reader in from the offset, but somehow, somewhere along the way, something slipped or just didn’t pan out the way the reader was hoping and the fall out from it was a loss of interest. Or maybe not so much a lack of engagement but it became too convoluted for me to bask in the enjoyment of reading it. When I couldn’t trust what I was reading, I started to feel a little bit of a detachment. I understand what was occurring, I even appreciated the originality and dramatic flair but it left me feeling cold and confused. Which I guess is precisely how our heroine was left.


I had a hard time connecting to either the heroine or the hero. They were both so aloof, clinical, detached and cynical. To the point where their personalities were very wooden, self-contained and very hard to really understand. In our hero’s instance, I guess it was because of what he is and for that I was able to look past his remote character and see beneath. It is only when our two protagonists become more involved within each other’s lives that they melt one another’s icy exteriors. There is more emotion, more passion and conflict, more drama and heartache. Yet as we steamed straight ahead to the ending, I feel like I was Kaiser Sozed by it all. Lulled into a false sense of security within the plot and within the characters actions and dialogue. The ending left me gobsmacked, unsure, aggravated and tense. Nothing made sense to me then. It was one of those stories where I had to sit and replay everything back in my head to determine if I enjoyed it or not.


Overall, Vitality is well written. It’s certainly different from any other vampire romance that I’ve read. It was a little dark, packed with little twists and turns, an array of differing characters, sometimes too many to keep track of, but I’m not sure how other readers fared with how it concludes, I just know that I wasn’t a happy bunny.

This was interesting and definitely kept me reading until the end. It's no stretch to say this is one for the Twilight crowd, it contains a similar, intense fantasy based romance. There the similarities end however and it goes it's own way. I liked the book but I acknowledge that I fall a little outside the target audience. For one thing, I just wasn't invested in the romance - though I should point out that I was not invested in the romance in Twilight and any similar books; I am a hard sell for romance fill stop. The story was engaging enough that I enjoyed it anyway and I think it captured the sense of loss, isolation and the inability to trust your own mind after trauma very well.

First of all congratulation on your debut novel, and thank you for letting me have early access.

This book finished with me asking more questions than were answered.

While I found the beginning slow and at sometimes confused, about half way though it really picked up. In truth I did not put it down and read the entire book in one sitting. I appreciated the character development of Ava, she was a strong lead but I do feel more could have been done with the characters surrounding her to flesh out her storyline and their own, there were small snippets but not really enough to establish the characters.

I really enjoyed the run up to the ending, you couldn’t quite figure out what were Ava’s hallucinations and what were real. You could really feel her emotional journey as the book went on.

In regards to Layton, I though he was written very well, I think it would have been nice to have some more pieces from his point of view, even some flashbacks into his past would be enough to explain slightly better how the story unfolded.

With that being said I was so disappointed by the ending it has somewhat marred my opinion of the rest of the book. I desperately hope a second is in the pipeline, I can’t be left on a cliff hanger like that!

Beyond excited to read Ava's story. The cover looks gorgeous and pulls your attention at first glance! I will update my review once I finish the book. Getting read to dive in now...I have a feeling this is gonna be sooooo good!!! 🖤🖤🖤