Alright. I haven't had this kind of mixed feelings about a book for a very long time. 
 I wasn't expecting much when I started reading. Oh look, a book about vampires published in 2006! I really wonder where this got its inspiration (or at least the incentive to publish it). 
 I can't lie. At times I really did get invested into the story, much to my chagrin. However, I really can't say my brief moments of investment are enough to overcome the blatant problems this book presents: 
 - It's poorly written. Sentences are all over the place, punctuation goes out the metaphorical window, and there are countless typos. Sometimes, a line or two is written in first person, when the rest of the book is in third person. Maybe these were meant to convey the protagonist's thoughts, but it just came across as confused. 
 And I'm all for trying to emulate the vernacular of the modern American youth in your prose, but there's a way to do it, and there's a way to fuck it up - guess which one this book did. 
 (In all honesty, though, the dialogue came across as pretty realistic, which was a pleasant surprise considering the numerous novels clamouring for the average teenager's attention with desperate attempts at relation through clumsy, stilted slang and semantics.) 
 - The vampires are dumb. What a surprise, the ancient, terrifying creatures of legend have been gentrified so much that by this point they can't even turn humans into vampires anymore. No, really. 
 - As is par for the course, there's a love story subplot! (view spoiler)[I initially thought it would be a love triangle-type thing, so I guess it's nice that it wasn't, but I don't like this whole "everything's tied neatly into a bow at the end" situation regarding relationships. Things are never really as simple as: 
 Eve loves Michael. Michael loves Eve. 
 Shane loves Claire. Claire loves Shane. 
 That second one really bugs me, too. Their romance kind of came out of nowhere; I spotted no signs of chemistry or romantic attraction, and then bam they're kissing. Great. How realistic. (hide spoiler)] 
 - Oh, and you know that final battle-and-confrontation thing that's supposed to be the part you're most invested in? 
 For this book, I was begging for it to be over soon, because I had no fucking idea what was going on. 
 But by far the worst thing was the sexism. 
 Oh, dear lord, did it make me angry. 
 According to this book, girls who are smart are weird. If you like physics? Weird. If you like classical literature? Weird. 
 But if you're hot, that's fine; that's what life's all about, right?! 
 (And that's a real insinuation from the book.) 
 I really hate this kind of stuff. A lot of other people do, too, and it's getting tedious that we're giving books that reaffirm negative views of women (and enforce gender roles as natural things we should conform to) to young teenagers and telling them it's perfectly alright to view the world this way. I was tempted to take a highlighter to this book and underline every single instance of awful sexism it presented to me, because at some points there were genuinely examples of it every few lines for several consecutive pages. 
 Two stars, because if you're capable and willing to switch your brain off for some mildly enjoyable vampire romps, then you can give this one a stab in the dark. 
 Side note: I don't know whether this was just something included in my edition of the book or if it's in all of them, but the little excerpts from Eve's diary right at the end were quite nice to read. It kind of made me want to know more about her childhood and what it's like growing up in a Protected family and such - it's a shame it offered me this perspective after the book was over.