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Gothikana by RuNyx

100 reviews

aubbywaubby's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0


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jessratesbooks's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I actually really enjoyed the storyline of this book. 

The characters? Perfection. 
Morally grey MMC? Yes. 
The plot? Amazing. 
The Setting? Dark Academia and Creepy Castles. 
Should you let your Mom read this book if you ever want to look her in the eyes again? No. 🌶️(sorry mom, love you 🫶)

Corvina (The FMC) was such a unique character. Vad… reminded me of Zade from Haunting Adeline but a lot less psychotic. 

*This book was gifted to me in exchange for an honest review.

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emu_308's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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hillsa87's review against another edition

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

3.25

This is a gothic spicy book.  It has a Wednesday meets Dracula vibe (without vampires that is). I wanted to like this book but the pace and writing was hard to get into in the beginning.  I had moments where I wanted to DNF but I was doing a buddy read and wanted to give it a chance.  The middle and end were the best part so if you can make it to that than 👍 

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direguard's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • 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


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sjraymond's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book was my first foray into dark academia and that was a mistake. The focus of the book is less in the academia part and more on how many times the main characters can have sex. 

The student-professor relationship was brought up in nearly every conversation: "But he's your teacher!" Or "I'm breaking the rules for you." We get it - forbidden romance and all that.

There were parts of the story that were mentioned in the beginning and only resolved at the end, and very fast. 

I couldn't connect with the characters, and while the plot was interesting, the story focused more on the sexual relationship between the main characters than anything else. 

I appreciate the author providing a warning page about what was going to happen, because the amount of sexual dominance in this book bordered on sexual assault. 

This was like bad Twilight fanfiction, but a step below 50 Shades of Gray.

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bo_okish's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0


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lindsayhwrites's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Clearly never saw an editor, was wrapped in pretty packaging but full of plot holes while also not having much of a plot. Very disappointing. Particularly the negative implications and claims about mental illness.

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hobbit_at_heart's review

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • 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

3.5

 
I really enjoyed this story! However, I will say I do not see any correlation between this story and comparing it to "dracula and beauty and the beast" aside from a girl falling for a "devil" in a castle.

The whole time I thought Vad Deverel was going to end up being a vampire or something and that never happened. So that was a touch disappointing. The smut could have been a touch better, but I won't complain.

I suck at reviews, but all-in-all, a good story. Definitely New Adult vibes. At first I was under the impression that this was set in an older timeline, however it was fairly modern with random things like the use of phones and internet was stuck in. Some of the writing was kind of cringy and I sped read through a LOT of fluffy bits that simply weren't all that necessary to have even been put into writing. Overall, good book. If Goodreads would do a 1/2 star system, this would be a solid 3.5 for me but I rounded up for the sake of having enjoyed the plot twist at the end bc I never would have seen it coming. Wild ride at the end!

HEA was corny as SHIT.

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gracehannahh's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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