This book took me a while to get through. I actually read some other books in the midst of reading this. I just couldn't get into it. Frankly it was boring. Also, this book was way longer than it needed to be in my opinion. Whole sections could have been left out and it still would have been the same story. The idea seemed neat at first (and is why I bothered with two stars) but the main character had no personality. The insta-love was so terrible. The only redeeming factor is that the vampires were not sparkly or beautiful or described as perfection. The writing was basic. So throat is actually a pretty interesting take on vampires. It's about a chick, Emma, who has epilepsy and got pissed at a chick on the soccer field for head butting her right into a seizure, about two days before she hasn't had a seizure in 6 months, long enough for her to get her coveted license. Once she has the seizure she blames it on the chick who hit her and punches her, steals her moms car, and wrecks it. She finds this creepy looking house and well the rest is history. Now this guy who made the change in her, is tormenting her, he tells her he will come after her little sister, so she does the best thing she knows how. She runs away. She doesn't run that far though....really only about 30 miles or so from home...bit weird. There is a lot of German in here and not many translations, somethings don't need translations while some of the others do. I feel it's the authors job to kind of tell us who the other language is saying so readers not fluent know what is being said. This author only did it half the time. Anyways Emma runs away and finds some place to lure her attacker to, not all at once, she has to build her fortress first. She meets a guy, with a pretty cool name, I do dig it, it's Sagan, there's a reason behind this. So it's like a story about vampires that meets astronomy and scify. It's definitely an interesting take. I do wish though that we kind of got a glimpse of what life was like after the end. Overall a decent story, bit too much internal monologuing though but when there aren't many characters that's to be expected.
What do You think about Throat (2011)?
Loved this read! It was fast paced, and kept me interested from the get go!
—leja
This book started out so good and went downhill quickly.
—tiny
I like the idea but the execution is not to my liking.
—deepu
