Insatiable

Meg Cabot
William Morrow (2010)
ISBN 9780061735066
Reviewed by Tracey Rock for Reader Views (06/10)


Meena Harper is a writer for the second highest rated soap opera show on television.  Her talents, however, are not all in her writing.  Meena has a gift.  She can tell when someone is going to die.  She isn’t really proud about this fact because she is not particularly fond of death, but will do everything within her power to try to prevent someone from dying.  This gift has also made her a bit of a realist in her personal and professional life.  So at work, she is utterly repulsed by the change being requested by her bosses to change her writing from dramatic characters looking for love to plotlines of vampires, which of course Meena does not believe in.  That is, not until she encounters, Lucien Antonescu.  Lucien is a smart, good looking Romanian history professor who just happens to be a vampire.  Unfortunately for Meena, who is very much attracted to him, he is not just any vampire, he is the prince of darkness - the son of Vlad the Impaler, most characterized by Bram Stoker in his writings of his book Dracula.  Lucien has come to town to investigate rogue vampires that are killing humans – which is strictly forbidden now in this century.  Also investigating these murders is Alaric Wulf.  Alaric is a palentine guard that works for the Vatican or also known as a vampire hunter who has no problem killing any vampire, including Lucien.  As Meena is still reeling from the reality of Lucien being a vampire, she sees the death of her brother, John and Alaric at the hands of Lucien.  In her quest to try to prevent this, she discovers that she is actually a pawn in the middle of a vampire war. How would she now be able to prevent the deaths of the innocents?  Would she also be able to save Lucien, who is already dead?  Meena never thought she would be faced with her own choice between life and death.

When I first picked up the book, I was hoping to finally read at least one vampire story where the girl doesn’t fall in love with the vampire in some crazy desperate or careless manner and then wants to become one. After all, the book stores are saturated with them already and this would be old news.  So, perhaps my expectations were a bit high, but after all, Meg Cabot is, in my opinion, a pretty established author.  In reading “Insatiable,” I found that it took me a bit longer to read than most books.  I wasn’t exactly sure why but for the most part, I just wasn’t in that much of a hurry to find out what would happen to Meena once I read that she was in love with Lucien.  I felt this was just completely against Meena’s character, so, the books drags a bit on this fact, but does establish each character in a way that you do understand them quite well.  Once I finished reading the entire book, I realized that Meg Cabot didn’t disappoint me in the end.  I think that the story is a little light for those who read a lot in the sci-fi fantasy genre, but “Insatiable” does hold its own as just a good read overall.

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