Book review: Insatiable by Meg Cabot

Insatiable is one of Meg Cabot's adult novels.

Summary borrowed from Goodreads:

Sick of vampires? So is Meena Harper. 

But her boss is making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them. 

Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die (not that you’re going to believe her; no one ever does). 

But not even Meena’s precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side . . . a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire-hunters, would prefer to see him dead for. 

The problem is, he already is dead. Maybe that’s why he’s the first guy Meena’s ever met that she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena’s always been able to see everyone else’s future, she’s never been able look into her own. 

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare. 

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . . 

If she even has one.

My thoughts:

Writing about vampires isn't for everyone and just because a lot of authors jumps on the bandwagon doesn't mean that everyone should. As you probably can tell from my first sentence I wasn't too impressed by Insatiable and I really haven't anything to write about the book at all. All the elements to create a good vampire story were present and that just might be the problem, it seemed like Cabot followed a receipt for a story. There wasn't anything special or original about Insatiable. Meena annoyed me, she used the term "as usual" way to many times and it felt strange that she used those words about a person she'd known for barely three minutes. I might be a tad bit too negative in this short review since this is the second book in a row that I couldn't get into(but hey at least I finished this one!). For me the most interesting part of the story was the authors note at the end of the book. I should perhaps have tried one of Cabot's YA novels instead? Now I need to read something good or else I'll lose my reading mojo :( 

The cover:
Seductive and it lured me into buying the novel. Sadly the content didn't reflect the sensual and mysterious cover.

My rating of this book:

2.5 stars out of 5

Want a second opinion? Check out these reviews written by some of my book blogging friends:

Today's Adventure

Supernaturalsnark

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Insatiable by Meg Cabot

Published: June 2010
Pages(hardcover): 451
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 006173506X (ISBN13: 9780061735066)
Full disclosure: Purchased(audibook from Audible)

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