The story should have been good. It had an interesting plot with both modern and period piece storylines, but it just failed to reach anything close to memorable or romantic. The ML was an arrogant prick who treated his FL like crap and then expected her to love him. The actor himself, though I’ve seen him in other things and he was not as bad, was seriously terrible in this. He constantly looked like he wanted to cover his nose and walk around without letting any lesser individuals look at him. Maybe they thought having a guy who looked arrogant play the part of an arrogant character would make it easy to act out but it ended up looking stiff and somewhat forced. The FL couldn’t work up an expression other than blankly staring to save her life AND the script called for her to be so stupidly in love that she was happy to be called disgusting or a monster, as long as the ML (who called her those things to her face and behind her back) was the one to say it. At what point is she supposed to stand up for herself and tell him he’s a piece of garbage and doesn’t deserve her heart? Because if she had done that, it would have been the first bit of actual intelligence she ever showed. The second ML was not much better character-wise, but at least he was a better actor. Also the switch from modern to period piece to modern again was clumsy at best. I mean, honestly, they could have done that twenty different ways that would have been better. Sorry but bad acting along with complete character fails made this series nearly ridiculous. There were a few bright moments, when we saw the vampires and humans comes to an understanding and become friends, and we could almost see something worthwhile about the show, but then it failed on so many other levels that the message got lost. What to say about the music? Well, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. One song was kind of catchy. It felt like an anime theme song. The rest, despite the singing ability of the actors, were simply lacking. For me, the music was forgettable. This is actual the fifth time I’ve tried to finish this show and I finally succeeded. I would watch a few episodes, get bored, forget about it, be reminded and try again. Seriously, 5 attempts to get through 12 episodes over a two year period. So it just wasn’t enough to hold my attention or make me care about the characters. In fact, the only scene I found touching was the one where the FL sacrificed her life for the ML, and what was most touching about that was that she killed herself for someone who hated what she was. I don’t think he would have saved her if the situations were reversed. He was always either cowardly, conceited, or hateful. Not a good character choice for a ML. Are we supposed to swoon just because he’s handsome? Sorry, not on the likely. Overall, this series lacked sense, sophistication, and substance, but it attempted to have style (if you count having a gorgeous cast, though most of them can’t act, as style). IMO, not a keeper. Will not watch again. Kind of wish I’d never bothered to finish it.