DNF Review - Jeaniene Frost

I don't like reviewing books that I haven't finished - after all, how can I judge a whole book by only looking at part of it?  But sometimes there are books that people love, while I had to struggle to get through 50 pages (which is when I allow myself to give up).  So, I thought I would share my misery - a booksthat I was excited to read, have great reviews on goodreads, but I found utterly unendurable.

Feel free to snark back at me, as I haven't been all that kind.

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Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Average goodreads rating: 4.26
My rating: I could have bought Buffy DVDs with this money.

I was crazy excited to start this book.  There must be a few hundred praising reviews about Cat and Bones and their epic hotness.  What did I get from it?  Buffy fanfiction.  Now, Frost says that her character Bones is of absolutely no relation to Spike from BtVS.  Well, even if that is the case, Bones is still his literary twin.  People can come up with similar concepts independent from each other - I know.  But seriously?  A bleached, accented, cocky, luv'-and-darlin'-saying vampire?  One was enough.

Besides my issues with Bones, I had also not been so crazy about Cat.  She seemed angry at the world - especially vamps - when really she should have been pissed about her mother's crappy parenting.  But that wasn't enough for me to even dislike her.  Zero personality.