Originally posted at Hooked on Books 
 I picked up a copy of Breed this year at BEA and initially I was incredibly excited for it. A horror novel in the vein of Rosemary's Baby? What's not to love about that? As I started reading, however, I found that this book was nothing like I expected to be and that this was both good and bad. 
 Breed is divided into two parts and my feelings about these two parts are as different as night and day. The first part focuses in on Alex and Leslie and their struggles to get pregnant and produce an heir. It was touch and go for a bit on whether or not I was actually going to finish this book, Alex and Leslie are such unsympathetic characters. Leslie is whiny and annoying and Alex is condescending and ignorant. (I mean really you're going to complain multiple times about how hard it is to be rich?) As far as I can tell you were supposed to feel this way about them, but it makes it really difficult to keep me interested in a novel when I absolutely do not care about what happens to the characters. 
 The second part, switches gears to after the children are born and I found it much easier to get into and it kept me hanging onto the very end to find out what happened. Because of the comparison to Rosemary's Baby I wasn't expecting the children to be overly developed, and though they weren't as fleshed out as I would like, there was still actual substance to them. It was easy to care about them, and cheer them on. I do wish more time would have been spent on Alice, as I felt Adam dominated part 2, but it wasn't a huge problem. 
 Overall, I didn't find Breed as scary as I expected. It was interesting and quite strange (seriously, there must have been some bizarre expressions on my face while I was reading this one the subway) but the characters were poorly developed and I can't say I'm 100% satisfied with it's resolution. It felt like it was falling just short of being a really exciting novel. 
 Recommendation: If you're looking for a book that will send chills up your spine this Halloween, Breed is not it.