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jovo's review
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
1.0
Reads very fanfic-y and puts the author's id clearly on display. Usually I think this is great and I like this in light, fun m/m romance/erotic novels I read in between other books, but this one annoyed me.
1) There is one female character that says more than two sentences, and she's the villain. That in itself is, in my opinion, not a problem in an m/m novel, but she is a flat, unconvincing villain. We never actually learn what her motivations are, we just have one main character's thoughts about her, and he thinks she's doing it for the money. If so, her attempts at "persuading" the humans to do what she wants just make her look stupid and bad at her job. She just seems like a cardboard-cutout baddie that serves as a punching bag and someone the main characters can call a bitch/cunt/etc. If she was actually written as a serious threat and some thought had gone into her motivations, the characters (i.e. the author) would have found better insults for her, I'm sure. If you just need a baddie to kidnap your fragile humans so their supernatural boyfriends can rescue them, sure, go ahead, but please don't fill that role with the only woman that makes a significant appearance in the story, and then just call her misogynistic insults.
2) It's never explained why the vampires don't go up in flames in direct sunlight. I don't mind stories that go the Twilight route, but there should at least be a sentence explaining it. The human main character even wonders about this at some point, but it's never picked up again.
3) The human main character is entirely too chill with murder, as long as the ones who get murdered are The Bad Ones.
4) One of the "tags" in the summary/blurb is "the summary really doesn’t get across how much sex is in this but it’s also not wrong" - that definitely made me expect quite a lot of boning. They kiss only after the 50% mark, and there's maybe one and a half sex scenes. The summary really does not get across how much sex there is in this, but it also fails to get across how *little* sex there is.
5) okay there was more, but I've run out of steam.
1) There is one female character that says more than two sentences, and she's the villain. That in itself is, in my opinion, not a problem in an m/m novel, but she is a flat, unconvincing villain. We never actually learn what her motivations are, we just have one main character's thoughts about her, and he thinks she's doing it for the money. If so, her attempts at "persuading" the humans to do what she wants just make her look stupid and bad at her job. She just seems like a cardboard-cutout baddie that serves as a punching bag and someone the main characters can call a bitch/cunt/etc. If she was actually written as a serious threat and some thought had gone into her motivations, the characters (i.e. the author) would have found better insults for her, I'm sure. If you just need a baddie to kidnap your fragile humans so their supernatural boyfriends can rescue them, sure, go ahead, but please don't fill that role with the only woman that makes a significant appearance in the story, and then just call her misogynistic insults.
2) It's never explained why the vampires don't go up in flames in direct sunlight. I don't mind stories that go the Twilight route, but there should at least be a sentence explaining it. The human main character even wonders about this at some point, but it's never picked up again.
3) The human main character is entirely too chill with murder, as long as the ones who get murdered are The Bad Ones.
4) One of the "tags" in the summary/blurb is "the summary really doesn’t get across how much sex is in this but it’s also not wrong" - that definitely made me expect quite a lot of boning. They kiss only after the 50% mark, and there's maybe one and a half sex scenes. The summary really does not get across how much sex there is in this, but it also fails to get across how *little* sex there is.
5) okay there was more, but I've run out of steam.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny
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