Daughter of Darkness Review

Daughter of Darkness
by V.C. Andrews
From Goodreads:

When I was a little girl, Daddy told me never to fear the dark. “We exist because of the darkness,” he told me. “All of you are daughters of darkness.” Beloved bestselling author V.C. Andrews’s passion for vampires comes to spellbinding life in a long-awaited novel of dark desires as all-consuming—and forbidden—as in Flowers in the Attic. One night, with the sound of a young man’s scream, high school senior Lorelei discovers that her stern but loving father, who adopted Lorelei and her sisters as infants, is no ordinary man. He has raised his beautiful girls for one purpose: to lure young men into their world of shadows. Like her sisters, Lorelei has been trained in the art of seduction and warned never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome and charming classmate, she boldly defies her family and follows her heart—even if love is a poison. . . .Dangerously enticing and deliriously intoxicating, V.C. Andrews’s Daughter of Darkness will leave readers thirsting for more.

My Thoughts: I really did not like this book. The only character I liked was Moses, and he's only in the last page and a half of the book. I really think the book had some promise, and there was enough mystery to keep me reading, but mostly it was my old love of VC Andrews from my tween days that kept me turning the pages. I probably should have stopped reading, because I'm trying the 50 page rule to keep me from reading books that are not entertaining.

My main problem with the book is that the main character, Lorelei, was supposedly beautiful and smart- we know this because every few pages another character tells us that she is beautiful and smart, but she continuously does dumb things. It was hard to believe that she really feared being kicked out of the family when she broke rule after rule. Buddy, as a love interest, was a completely flat character. It's hard to see how they could be "in love" when he only mentions how beautiful she is, and Lorelei loves how "nice and cute" Buddy is. The character of Mark had some promise, and the whole renegade idea was intriguing, but it was over and done with in a blink of an eye. And honestly, I knew something was up with him, it's strange that "smart" girl Lorelei was clueless.

I think a younger reader might enjoy this book, although there is a lot reference to sex and sexuality, it's not overly detailed. I think maybe my expectations were too high going in, I mean how can a book that promises incest and vampires not rock?

I wanted to like this book, but from now on I'm sticking to re-reads of Flowers in the Attic and Heaven. Maybe a little My Sweet Audrianna thrown in from time to time.
  
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