***Rating: 1/5 Stars***
Ok first of all, let me just say that I thought that the basic concept of "Die For Me" was kinda awesome. It was original and put a different spin on the whole 'zombie' scene. That said - It was absolutely brutal trying to get through it and ignore the empty, stereotypical, plastic dialogue.
My biggest problem with this book? The characters. All of them. There was not a single character that actually had any real depth to them. They were all under developed caricatures. The worst offenders included our heroine, Kate, and her love interest Vincent. There's a fair amount of fuss made about how since her parents died Kate has become a mature, cautious young woman. That is a complete load of garbage. Kate comes across as being ridiculously whiny and naïve. Vincent is in much the same boat (as are his 'kindred'). I don't care how often they reanimate as teenagers - they have lived for decades and you'd hope that some of that age and experience would manifest in their present day behaviour, rather than being plagued by temper tantrums befitting of teeny boppers and rich kids.
To top it all off, Kate is just so blasé about the whole undead situation. Her entire stance seems to be "Oh - you're actually a zombie, whose touch can force me to be calm even though I should be running around screaming like a lunatic, and you become a corpse every month like clockwork? Nah that's cool. I'll just come over and have some popcorn over your dead body while I wait for you to come back to life" - In what universe is that considered normal?
She takes it to the extra creepy level when she kisses his corpse. Because that's what it is. Like it or lump it, for three days every month Vince is dead. His spirit may be 'volant' but his body is dead. There is no comparison in this to vampires. None. Vampires may be 'Undead'. But they're conscious. What Kate is doing, is making out with a unfeeling, empty, corpse. Dead things aren't attractive. Maybe someone should tell Kate.
As if all of that weren't bad enough, but they you have to deal with cliché after cliché, terrible dialogue, tacky - TACKY mistakes like making a supposedly agoraphobic protagonist go to a café, and your typical paranormal romance insta love. Did I mention that the dialogue was terrible?? There are way too many cringe worthy moments to even list.
I would not recommend this book. I know that many people have rated it really highly and it seems to be one of those books that you either love or hate. Twilight was better than this book. It held so much promise but at the end of the day was just a massive let down. I'm going to give Book 2 (Until I die) a shot, just on the off chance that Amy took all the criticism to heart and improved the sequel, but I'm not holding out much hope.
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