The Sil­ver Kiss by Annette Cur­tis Klause has left me ambiva­lent. I had to read/skim to the end. It deals with loss and lone­li­ness among other things. This is a YA novel and I guess I was really want­ing some­thing as cap­ti­vat­ing as by Stephe­nie Meyer. Thus, it’s my own fault this novel didn’t work com­par­ing it to a novel that I just couldn’t put down.

Our pro­tag­o­nist is 16-year old Zoe and her mother is dying from can­cer. Her father often excludes her or just ignores her and spends most of his time at the hos­pi­tal. Zoe has no real friends to turn to or share her feel­ings with and the one friend she does have doesn’t know how to com­fort her. Zoe feels alone and wants so badly to talk with her father but even he shuts her out. Enter Simon. A vam­pire who has been search­ing for his mother’s super­nat­ural killer. He stalks the streets, look­ing for prey, leav­ing bod­ies behind and ter­ror­iz­ing the com­mu­nity. He’s a mon­ster and makes no bones about it.

At a point in time Simon and Zoe meet. They strike up a friend­ship since they seem to be kin­dred spir­its. There’s a lot of intro­spec­tion and child­hood angst from Zoe deal­ing with her mother’s death. Then there’s Simon and his lone­li­ness and weari­ness. This is where I stopped read­ing and skimmed. I’d heard a lot of good things about Ms. Klause and have Blood and Choco­late in my TBR. Has any­one read this book? I plan to keep it and give it another go but right now, I find it rather bor­ing and will assign it a DNF. I could and did put this book down and could for­get it. I still want to read Blood and Choco­late one day soon.