A review by redhairedashreads
Vampires Don't Suck by Juliann Whicker

Did not finish book. Stopped at 42%.

DNF 128 (43%)

While this world is very unique and interesting, I am struggling with this story. This is a very unique world with paranormal creatures, magic, assassins, and music being used to restore buildings. I was enjoying the unique world but I couldn’t get past my issues with the heroine, the lack of explanation for things that are clearly supposed to be important, and the plot being all over the place. 

First Libby (I think that's her name, it's only mentioned once) is a former assassin of the House of Mercy and is now a librarian in a magical library. For being a former assassin, she is very unconcerned about her safety and also is just pretty clueless about normal things, which you would think that would be something an assassin would be trained in so they can be effective. My other issue with her is that she is very prejudiced against all monsters, but vampires especially, and yet we are never given a solid reason as to why. But she also offers her blood to a vampire a couple of times, which makes no sense. 

The plot of this book was all over the place. It felt like every other chapter we were given another important plot thread that would be discussed until the next big plot thread came along. I am very confused on which plot point is the main one at this point and I made it almost halfway through the book. Also we are constantly being given references to things that are clearly supposed to be important but no follow up explanation as to why was provided. It quickly got old on top of the plot being all over the place. 

TW: PTSD; prejudice against monster; brief mentions of capture and torture;