Started Reading: March 31, 2007
Finished Reading: April 1, 2007

Touch the Dark has interesting characters, though not all were as well-built as the female protagonist, Cassie. Most of the vampires had dark personalities (not that I’d expect anything other than that), but it’s very hard to see them as honest (as opposed to other vampire books that I’ve read - some vampires may be jaded, but they have honor and honesty). I mean, the best advice I’d give Cassie would be never to trust any vampire. Even if it was someone whom you thought was…good and gentle.

The plot was a bit dragging. The characters talked too much for pressing problems to be immediately addressed, and the book didn’t even give a conclusion to one of the major plots or problems - the battle between Rasputin and the Senate or whatever happened to it. Sure, Cassie became Pythia but it seemed that after that, the whole vampire deal doesn’t matter anymore. The book just stopped there. And that wasn’t a good closure if you’d ask me.

Otherwise, the novel was good. Not as good as, say, Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampires but not as bad as Jennifer Armintrout’s Blood Ties. I’m hoping more things will be explained in the second novel, but I’ve read the first two chapters in Karen Chance’s website and it seems that Carrie has another problem to handle. I’m starting to suspect Mircea is an evil mastermind. D: