Suz's Reviews > The Lesser Dead

Well that was interesting.

It took me a long time to read this, and I ended up listening to other books and found myself easily diverted to doing other things. This book never really called to me until towards the end.

Yeah, it's a vampire story but it's nothing like you'll find in current urban fantasy offerings. It leans more to horror and there's no feel-good to be had in it. In fact it's a slightly uncomfortable read, at least it was for me. I never connected with the primary protagonist nor empathized with him, and the style of writing was of a narrator telling a story so it was all telling instead of showing by default. I find that sort of thing difficult to be immersed in.

Then consider that the narrator was pubescent and there were a lot of "children" in the story and my natural aversion to the very young made it even more uncomfortable. The entire time I was reading it I remember thinking that it wasn't bad, but I couldn't imagine giving it more than 3 or so stars.

The end, however, was delightfully unexpected. Enough so that I am rating up a full star for the ending.