A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

INSATIABLE

Author: Meg Cabot ISBN: 9780061735080 (REPRINT) 6/2011 PARANORMAL Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW

Insatiable by Meg Cabot
Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.

But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.

Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)

But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, Lucien's already dead. Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met whom she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena's always been able to see everyone else's future, she's never been able look into her own.

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future…

If she even has one.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

I want to get something off my chest right now. I LOVE Meg Cabot. To me, she is a great author. I've read every book she ever wrote, and still found myself very disappointed in INSATIABLE. To me, this is Meg Cabot tossing her hat into the vampire young adult book trend. Problem is that right now, so many of those types of books out there that it feels burned out at this point. Meg brings nothing new to the genre, and didn't even go with the less used plots in this genre. It's safe to say this book is predictable.

The thing that drove me to the point of madness was the protagonist, Meena. Don't worry, she's nothing like Mina from Dracula, but I honestly think it would have been better if she had been. Meena is the heroine we've seen so much of lately. The only thing redeeming about her is that she makes fun of the Mary Sue idea in vampire romances. She makes fun of their choices, etc., but then she does what she is making fun of! She realizes this is stupid, and yet here she is making the same decisions as those Mary Sues she made fun of. At that point, I gave up on relating to Meena at all and just focused on tolerating her.

The saving grace of this book was the side characters. They were funny and breathed life into this book. There is a guy that uses a sword he calls Senor Sticky, for goodness sake. After feeling the vein in my forehead throb, thanks to the frustration Meena caused; for some reason, Senor Sticky brought tears of laughter to my eyes. The fact that another one of the side characters is a comic book lover like me just gave me something to relate to in the book.

I'm not saying INSATIABLE is a bad book, but unfortunately, I'm not saying this is a good book either. This is an average book which lacks originality. We've seen basically everything in this book a hundred times now, and we've seen it done better. One of the things that keeps it from being a good book, despite the lack of originality, is the repetition that is throughout this book. There were a lot of times where the same phrase, and even the same idea, appeared on the same page or a few pages later. It got very annoying after awhile.

As I said before, this is an average book, and I don't really recommend reading it unless you are a huge fan of the vampire teen romance trend.

Caitlin Turner

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