The Vampire Jack Townson - Fame Has Its Price

I could not put this book down. I’m so excited for what Jack has in store for part 2!

This book is a chef’s kiss pure perfection. Jack is a true master at storytelling and evoking emotions. This is a definitive masterpiece and a must have can’t wait for more.

I’m not sure why there’s so many people praising this book, especially when it has the quality of a first draft. not to mention it reads like a Wattpad fanfic. I went into this expecting that it was going to be a fun-bad story, but by the end of the first chapter I could tell it was just going to be bad.
First things first, it felt like the book really wanted to get deep into the world-building, but didn’t know how to do that. There’s lore mentioned that you’d think would be important and come in handy for future chapters, but are never brought up again. It created a lot of plot holes and confusion by never being properly explained or shown, and a lot of what pushes the story forward seems to come up purely out of convenience.
All the fight scenes were muddled with unnecessary dialogue and were extremely hard to follow. Same thing with picturing the setting as well. It felt like the book was describing all of the unimportant parts. There were numerous times where it was very hard for me to picture what the characters were doing, and then immediately after was described in intense detail. In the strangest places too.
The writing style, if you can even call it that, was extremely hard to follow as well. It was just one big word after the other and destroyed the reading flow. Way too wordy, and took way too long to say what it needed to say. The book tried to be lighthearted during serious scenes, but all it did was kill the mood and make it feel awkward and clumsy. I will admit that it was really funny at times, just for sheer stupidity, and I think that’s the only good thing I can say about this book.
The main character, I hate to say when I’m pretty sure this is a self-insert, is extremely boring. He’s static for a protagonist, and makes the most unsatisfying choices, and It’s just because it feels like none of them have any weight.
Also the plot twist at the end? It made the feeling of reading this book being not worth my time ten times more apparent. It feels like if Name of the Wind was a dream sequence instead of an actual telling of events. It’s not stated exactly what this book’s intention was at the beginning, which i’m sure was purposeful, but brings it back up at the end for pure shock-value. Which I personally think can be a great twist for a book, but this one was done so poorly that I couldn’t even enjoy it.
All in all, this book is good for if you just want to turn your brain off and read, and also if you’re a fan of vampire jack. It’s not something that you want to look too deep into if you were looking for an enriching story like me.