“We have to face difficulties
to find out what our true strengths are. How we come back from a failure is a
very valuable test.” – Insatiable, Meg Cabot
Insatiable by Meg Cabot is a
modern retelling of Dracula. Meena is a soap opera writer with a special gift –
she can predict when and how someone is going to die. Although facing
supernatural powers in her everyday life, she does not believe in the other supernatural
beings – especially not Vampires! In fact she hates vampires. But when she
meets the mysterious Lucien Antonescu, Romanian nobility, she may have to
reconsider everything.
Did I like this book? Of
course I did! It’s Meg Cabot for goodness’ sake! Mediator is one of my
favourite book series, and I was eager to read another supernatural romance by
Cabot. I think Cabot really has a talent. By the end of the book, I was rooting
for Lucien and Meena to be together, even though, like Meena, I find the idea
of vampires kind of repulsive. (I like to read about them, but I would not like
them if they were real…) I mean, he bit Meena even after she
specifically said, “No biting”. And after the meeting, I could see he loved her
but at the same time he was a very violent creature and would mean trouble for
Meena. Despite all of this, whilst I was reading I was upset with Meena for not
just running away with Lucien. That is what some good writing does – gets you
to go against your beliefs and fall in love with whatever the author wants.
