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The Poisoner

I.V. Ophelia

3.69 AVERAGE

kiiara555's review against another edition

1.0

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The author used violence against women so lightly despite Alina’s motivations being based entirely on that. She barely reacts when she finds members of murder women or a whole corpse in her bathtub and continue to fuck the one doing the killing. Also the rapes were so gross and Silas is irredeemable to me.

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peyt149's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kyras_reads's review against another edition

3.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I can’t quite pinpoint what it was about these two characters I didn’t like but I wasn’t a huge fan of either. It felt like some of the dialogue and the early connection made between them was forced and didn’t make a lot of sense. So, it was hard to connect with the story early on and I don’t think I was as invested as I needed to be because of that.

A story with vampires has to be well done for me to enjoy it and even though this wasn’t without some plot holes, the overarching storyline wasn’t bad. I think at the end of the day this particular book body wasn’t for me.

Tropes:

Gothic Romance

Enemies to Lovers

Vampire MMC

Vigilante FMC

Victorian Era

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

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