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cgn's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, War, Confinement, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Physical abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Alcohol, Colonisation, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Medical content
paperbrownies'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
4.0
- m|w|w|m
- bi protagonists, sapphic, polyamory
my mind is actually blown to bits right now!!
cw: grooming, emotional, verbal, and physical intimate partner abuse, violence, blood and gore, murder, gaslighting, war, famine, and plague, consensual sexual content, sadomasochism, self harm, body horror, violence and murder, alcohol use, depression and mania and brief references to sexual assault (not directed at any named character), drug use, drowning
(cw's copied from author's website)
Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Self harm, Violence, Murder, and Alcohol
disasterwarlock'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
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gore, War, Violence, Self harm, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual assault and Drug use
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
charlieeee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Death
Minor: Alcohol