Ten months after vampires revealed their existence to the mortals of Chicago, they're enjoying a celebrity status usually reserved for the Hollywood elite. But should people learn about the Raves--mass feeding parties where vampires round up humans like cattle--the citizens will start sharpening their stakes.
So now it's up to the new vampire Merit to reconnect with her upper class family and act as liaison between humans and bloodsuckers, and keep the more unsavory aspects of the vampire lifestyle out of the media. But someone doesn't want peace between them--someone with an ancient grudge.
Review:
I dove head
first into Friday Night Bites just minutes after I finished Some Girls Bite.
Needless to say, the first book left a great impression and I am just so
thankful for wireless Internet and my Kindle. So thankful.
Friday Night
Bites highlights a new problem that was foreshadowed in the first book. In
order to sustain peace, Merit must reconnect with her socialite family. Merit,
who has always been the black sheep, isn’t too happy about this but has taken
her new role as Sentinel very seriously, she reconnects.
Like most
second books we are introduced to a new supernatural species. Not so much as
introduced, but highlight I guess. This book seems to be the book for shifters.
Shifters have not come out to the public, not wanting to become science experiments
which I completely understand. The dislike between vampires and shifters is
here, as is the usual political game between species which is a common tension
adder.
One thing I
think that is worth mentioning is that this book starts immediately after the
first one ends. As in, days after. Some books take massive breaks or even a few
weeks and months. Not this series.
Having said
that, and understanding that this is the second book, I don’t entirely find
some of the relationships too believable. When I say this, I’m mainly thinking
about Mallory and Catcher, who have been together for two weeks are making
announcements of love and already live together (since Merit decided to move
into the Cadogan House). This is one trait in YA that extremely annoys me—the
insta love—and it usually doesn’t follow through into adult. I can’t help but
be disappointed in this aspect.
The other
relationship I love to talk about is Merit and Ethan’s and Morgan’s. Oops.
Forgot about that other guy. In fact, I’ll just pretend he doesn’t exist, just
like Merit seems to forget when she’s around Ethan. Sparks fly off the page
when these two are in the same room and I love it. All that tension? Eek! I do
feel slightly angry at Merit for leading Morgan on—but I could never see their
relationship working from the very beginning if I’m too be honest (and no,
that’s not because I’m a fan of Ethan).
There are
other subplots in Friday Night Bites that have carried onto the third book
(which I’m halfway through), so I won’t spoil it for anyone. Inner and external
conflict always seem to rise in these books, as well as the action and awesome
character growth, which is what is making this series so awesome and fun to be
a part of!
Rating: 4
stars
Date Read:
Feb 2013
Date
Published: October 6th 2009
Source:
bought
Format: ebook
Series/Stand
Alone: Chicagoland Vampires #2
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