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Actual rating 2.5 stars.

I can't say I enjoyed this book. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting.
The story didn't grab me at any point. It is just interesting enough to keep reading, just enough to want to find out where is all going to arrive to, but not entertaining enough to not have me thinking about DNFing it. Then, after the barely there interest, we arrive at an end that doesn't deliver. I was left unimpressed, disappointed and frustrated because how pointless all was. I could have gone without reading this book easily.

Early on in the book we enter into story telling territory, we get several narrations of people´s lives along the way which, in most occasions, I found very tedios. I didn't see the necessity of having these past time stories being told in such a long way. This book could have easily been cut half its size and it wouldn't have lost any meaning, while gaining in pace. The main problem being that these stories weren't interesting or entertaining. I never found myself wanting to know more about them, all I wanted was for them to be over already.

Overall, I felt very disappointed. I had great expectations going in, based on all the good reviews this book has. However, I didn't find very basic elements that usually engage me like an actual romance and some angst. There is darkness, which I usually like, but here everything is described under a cold air, very well written yes, but too icy emotionally and distant.

I think it is safe to assume that I won't be reading the next installments in this series.

P.S.: If you want to read meaningful stories, with depth, adventure, great dialogues and interesting characters, all with the paranormal element of immortal beings, their past stories and their present; then go ahead and read The Vanpire Chronicles by Anne Rice. You can skip this one.