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danaslitlist's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
The importance that each character plays within the others lives was one element that I loved especially. The strength they find in each other and the love that blooms in their hearts for each person is the driving force here.
Her gaining her power and her own agency through the work she puts in, the way she sets herself free alongside those around her, and her vengeance was so rewarding.
I desperately want to get a physical copy and go back to read it again. There were so many quotes that stood out that I’d love to analyze.
Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, and Gaslighting
anapthine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Confinement, Bullying, Blood, and Toxic relationship
Minor: War, Incest, and Fire/Fire injury
ninebookishlives's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Blood, Toxic relationship, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Rape
mahitdzmare's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Rape and Murder
wardenred's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Love is violence, my darling, it is a thunderstorm that tears apart your world. More often than not, love ends in tragedy, but we go on loving in the hopes that this time, it will be different.
This book is, simply put, beautiful. A gothic novel at its finest, with all my favorite vampire tropes gathered under a single cover, dark in a way that has nothing to do with bloodsucking monsters, and leading up to a glimpse of dark, bloody hope at the end.
My love for the vampire genre was largely shaped by my teenage exposure to Vampire: the Masquerade, and I guess I keep seeking out the same things in various types of vampire-related media: beautiful and dangerous creatures of the night used as a metaphor for mundane terrors—abuse, gaslighting, controlling behavior. Stories like that is my safe way to interact with this topic, I suppose. When it gets too close to home, I can distance myself from it. I can tell myself, "I'm just reading a horror novel. Look, there are monsters on the page." But it's still a far more realistic type of monstrosity that I read about in these cases—in this particular case—and I still get to confront it and try to make sense of my own experiences through it.
This book is perfect at what it does, and at how it is constructed. The prose flows, the pacing hits all the write notes, and the characters come alive on the page. I can't help thinking that the one good thing that came from Dracula, for all his terribleness, was bringing the other members of this policule together.
Graphic: Violence, Murder, Mental illness, Blood, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Alcohol, Self harm, and Gore
Minor: Drug use and Rape
angiepoggi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, Death, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Sexual content, and Infidelity
Minor: Alcoholism, Biphobia, Colonisation, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Rape, and Lesbophobia
madarauchiha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
In very brief summary, this book is 'Domestic Abuse, but vampires [Dracula variation]'.
The writing is beautiful and succinct, it never overstays its welcome. I am glad it doesn't romantizise the abuse. There is a happy ending. The characters feel very unique and with their own voices.
I give this a 4.75 stars, because white people will never get my 5 stars of color.
Content warnings:
minor: mass death, incest, rape, csa, slavery,
medium: child death, torture, violence,
major: blood, gore, death, murder, diseases, body horror, grooming, NSFW, domestic violence, domestic abuse, body horror, gore, manipulation, nsfw, unhealthy relationships, toxic relationships, sexual abuse, marital rape / coersion.
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Child death and Violence
Minor: Incest