642 reviews for:

A Cruel Thirst

Angela Montoya

3.91 AVERAGE

criscrumble's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I’ve had a massive vampire hyper fixation since watching Sinners, mainly picked this book up because of the cover art but I’m so glad I did.

Montoya rewrites the lore of the European Vampire. Vampires are created by making a deal with the Mayan/Aztec god of the dead Tecuani, the characteristics of vampires not being able to go out in the sun or crossing flowing water is explained by the gods own limitations!!! An insanely cool and refreshing take on their traits.

The relationship between the two main characters is compelling, we LOVE a badass vampire hunter FMC who falls for a quiet little scholar boy. I won’t say much else but definitely READ THISSS!!!

poisonivy13's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

moomin99's review

4.0

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

shector1's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

macc1503's review

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

luna_winterlight's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

mztaraln76's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

steffi_p15's review

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

urclownwife's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

thedailyfool's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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I had a feeling going in that I was really going to like this since it's full of all my favorite tropes and I had read and loved her book Sinner's isle before this. It definitely exceeded my expectations though because it had all the romance and angst I was hoping for, but it took me by surprise with just how intricate and creative she got with crafting her own vampire lore and cultural mythology! I thought it was a refreshingly different spin on vampires! What also took me by surprise and made the read so much better was that it would have been so easy to lean into the dark and dreary for the characters considering their situations in the story, but nope! Literally just two goobers trying their best to fight vampires and accidently oops-ing their way into love along the way. They were still badass and I still got the angst I was craving, but there were so many points where the characters got a genuine laugh out of me!