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katyakat's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Additionally, the world-building, while fascinating, sometimes felt underexplored due to the book's brisk pace.
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Blood, Bullying, Gaslighting, Classism, and Sexual content
siglerbooknook'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? It's complicated
4.0
As always, Kova's side characters are my favorite. While some mannerisms became rather redundant, for the most part this group made me laugh, feel the second hand embarassment, and wish for a happy ending.
The plot itself dragged a little. The push me, pull me tension in the romance definitely could have been shorter and I skimmed some areas. I did figure out who the villain was well before the book told me, but the solution was delightfully unexpected.
The magic system introduced for the Vampir is excitingly unique and imaginative, and the underlying principals of the story were heartwarming. As always, I can't wait to dive into the next Kova novel.
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Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Terminal illness, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Gore, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping
Minor: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Self harm, Grief, Slavery, Suicide, Cannibalism, Murder, Death of parent, and Genocide
beckyyreadss'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Death, and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, and Body horror
Minor: Kidnapping, Self harm, and Grief
selestre's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Minor: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Self harm, and Violence
wormonastring's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Kidnapping, and Sexual content
Moderate: Body horror, Self harm, Death of parent, Gore, Animal cruelty, War, Animal death, Colonisation, and Death
Minor: Cannibalism
mypatronusisajedi'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
4.25
Moderate: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Death
Minor: Sexual content
jadejade's review
- 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? Yes
5.0
It goes without saying that if blood makes you squeamish, you should give this one a skip.
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Death, Body horror, Violence, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Grief
prettynerdy3's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Self harm, Murder, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and War
Minor: Confinement, Addiction, Gaslighting, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content
chelsreid1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Slavery, Body horror, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Racism, Classism, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Death, Hate crime, Murder, War, Gaslighting, and Sexual content
forgottencupoftea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
• dark-ish atmosphere
• strong lore and worldbuilding
• found family vibes + enemies to lovers romance
Though I'm not really into vampire books anymore (long gone are the days when Twilight made up most of my personality), I still wanted to read/give this one a shot as I really liked the two previous books in this series/set in this world. The other two were great, this one was not it for me.
The setting, the worldbuilding, the lore at play are great. But, the overall feeling is that the book was too long: there was a lot of "down" time and a lot of unnecessary narration, I don't need to know every single one of the narrator's thoughts nor all the step involved in the forging of weapons. In my opinion, the whole thing dragged and the book would have benefited from being shorter. I'm usually a rather fast reader, yet it took me most of September to finish this one. And I finished it by skimming the last third.
I also struggled forming any sort of attachment to the characters, I ended up not really caring about them. The romance wasn't really cutting it either. There was definitely some sort of passion burning between the two of them but that's it?
Lastly, the plot. It was all set very nicely and in an intricate way, and then the resolution was quick and easy. The solution to the curse was "too" easily guessed by the characters.
Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent