Reviews with content warning for Blood - The Witch and the Vampire

Amazing cover! Solid book so you know sometimes you can judge a book by its cover.

Some slight twists and turns but not overwhelming and so well written. It’s in first person POV and the POV changes every chapter which can honestly be terrible in books but I never felt like I was reading in first person. And the changing of POV really added to the story!

Small romance mostly about the witch and vampire lore which I loved.

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shelbyslifer's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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micaelacccc's review against another edition

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hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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sarrie's review

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dark tense slow-paced

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

1.0

TL;DR - Nah.

This was a huge miss for me from almost the first page. Ava and Kaye are two friends separated for years after Ava is turned (unwillingly) into a vampire and Kaye's mother is murdered. Ava knows nothing of the murder of Kaye's mother, instead she has been locked in her parents home abused and tortured by her family. Kaye has decided, after glimpsing Ava with blood on her face in a window, that Ava murdered her mother and has spent two years planning her revenge.

The plot is fairly simple, I'd venture so far as to say basic. The writing verges more into the simplistic style of middle grade novels with the amount of telling instead of showing, and the frankly stupidity of the characters. Kaye is for me the most frustrating, she makes assumptions and from there forward they are her facts. She has no room for critical thinking, and is incredibly frustrating to read about. Ava is unfortunately just as weak with very little personality.

Additionally there were a lot of topics and themes in this that were just handled poorly. From parental abuse to the racism and into the humans vs vampires feud. All of this could have been examined and broken apart, looked at and studied but it felt clumsily shoved in for some depth to the world.

This one was not a winner for me, I was left mostly annoyed while reading it so I unfortunately can't say I recommend it.

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ctara2123's review against another edition

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adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

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eli__minecraft's review

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adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

I think the lack of romance was a bit disappointing, I was expecting less crushing and maybe more talking about getting tighter and being together, it almost felt like the author abandoned the idea after one kiss, although I will say that before it was very nice and like the slow burn was just how I want it too be. The ending felt a bit cut of and I would maybe have wanted an epilogue I think the story would have befitted from it. I did like the references to rapunzel but I wish they would have made it closer to the story it didn’t feel like a retelling at all which it was advertised to me but I did enjoy the writing and feel I could read other works by francesca flores.

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