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When Life Gives You Vampires by Gloria Duke

7 reviews

bibble_kingly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book was a challenging read. The vampire aspects were interesting but I wish there had been more explanations about other things.

I think the Mother's opinion doing a 180 at the end of the book felt incredibly unrealistic. Yes, she experienced a terrifying event. Also, when you spend your child's enitre life fat-shaming her and forcing your daughter to develop disordered eating, it takes a while to not only acknowledge your wrong doing but to also, unlearn all of that AND do better.

This book had a lot of moments of realism which kept it grounded in some aspects. I understand that when a person gets to be 100+ years old, there's probably a disconnect when it comes to the human understanding of the supernatural world but...

'Vampire Hunters are incredibly dangerous so you have to watch out for them BUT ALSO are rare so why would you worry about it?' is very weird especially when Tristan laughes about werewolves existing. Werewolves, the creatures that are the folklore adversaries of vampires?? How was Lily's question not an IMMEDIATE clue that maybe our new couple has a totally different problem from just the Vampire council????

Overall, this book gave me a lot to think about in terms of body acceptance, the facets of internal shame and how all of that impacts everyone around you. The supernatural aspects were interesting but also, kind of baffling. The romance plot was also a bit baffling at times but not terrible.

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rythebread's review

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funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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vixenreader's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I love the representation, the premise, and every character the main character. It’s just that the central character’s personality and self-consciousness can be a bit hard to swallow at times.

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fivecatsinacoat's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

3.0

Not terribly fat-friendly. The MC spends a lot of time talking and thinking about how fat she is or not-skinny she is.

Another thing that really bothered me was when her mother had been taken, Lily and Triston went to a hotel and had sex? Like her mother is in danger and they decide to have sex? Very werid.

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cady_sass's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I really wanted to like this, but it’s just not very good. I think the intent was body positivity but it did not achieve that in the end. Missed the mark for me

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the_crooked_neighbor's review

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a cute romance with strong body positivity with a plus-sized main character. I have conflicted feelings about this because, yay, plus-size rep in a romance heroine, but boo, it is pretty much her whole personality. I really liked the plot but it took a backseat to the heroine's journey of learning to love her body. I think it had a lot of really good and accurate discussions of what it is like to be a person in a fat body, but again all I really wanted was a vampire romance with a fat heroine. I appreciate the book for what it is and would recommend it with the caveat that it can be triggering and the romance is really just so-so. I will say I was very glad about the in-book trigger warning, and as someone recovering from an ED, I was able to handle the triggers.

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mar_gier's review

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

I didn't hate this book, but it wasn't perfect the best either. I loved Lily and thought that she was hilarious,

though I wish she didn't take until the like third to last chapter to fully except herself and tie up literally every other plot thread at the same time

. Her use of... I want to call it internet speak, was also quite annoying, even though I enjoyed her sass. I have grievances about aspects of her personality, but that's what character development is for, and I liked the Lily at the end. I quite enjoyed Tristan as well, and wish the book had more of him, as I had some trouble believing that he and Lily had anything beyond physical and sexual attraction.

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