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knlipke's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Sexual content
the_lesbrarian's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood and Sexual content
Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Murder, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Death of parent and Adult/minor relationship
misha_ali'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
4.75
I don't want to spoil anything but I appreciate how compelling and lyrical the point of view chapters for Carmilla and Laura are, despite their backgrounds and characters being incredibly different and yet similar in fundamental ways.
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content
kaiyakaiyo'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
5.0
Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Drug use and Alcohol
errie's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexual content, and Abandonment
maddiereadswords's review
5.0
I loved quite literally everything about this book. The writing is poetic and beautiful, I enjoyed both Laura and Carmilla as characters, and frankly I too would risk it all for a hot older vampire with too much of her own shit going on. The atmosphere was simply incredible, and even though it took me longer to read than I expected, I found myself savoring every second of the experience. There were some minor details that I could nit pick, and I do wish that this book was like a hundred pages longer so that the actual plot portion of the third act could have been a little more fleshed out, but my enjoyment and love for it as a whole won out. I'm literally never going to stop thinking about this book, and I know I'll be revisiting it time and again in the future.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Alcohol
caseyreadslol's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
[the toxic relationship tw is not in reference to the main coupling]
Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
skypotion's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Also, if you're worried about homophobia, don't be. It's in the background, as this is set in the 60's, but neither girl is put in a situation where they have to experience it for themselves.
If you have any concerns about the Toxic Relationship TW:
If you're curious about any potential Dowry crossovers:
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Blood
Minor: Abandonment
charleyyyyy's review
3.0
🌹I love the concept of this book, but the execution leaves something to be desired. The themes seemed underdeveloped,
I didn't love the charicters, and there was barely any plot to even be interested in. The scraps of plot that we did get felt underdeveloped and rushed. It had so much potential but none of it was used to its full extent.
🖤I did like the dynamic of their relationships.
I liked how Carmilla and Laura work as a couple, and especially how the kinkyer aspects of their interests come together. Although, that was also something I wanted more of, I did enjoy how their feelings towards dom/sub dynamics were explored on an individual level,
"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers."
"Love and pain grew in a thorny Grove inside me, impossible to disentangle from one another."
🥀The toxic relationship between Carmilla and De Lafontaine was written well, and I enjoyed the way that theme was explored. Along with Laura coming into that toxic mix as well.
" 'Don't you think it's wrong though? What she does to her students?'
'Right and wrong don't exist, Laura. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents. There is only art and ugliness, and I'm willing to suffer and indignity for the sake of art. Even at the hands of Mrs D.' "
🍷I wouldn't normally read a retelling of a classic I love, but I needn't have worried because this book barely has anything in common with Carmilla. The only similarities are the charicters names and the presence of vampires. Its a retelling of Carmilla in the same way The Love Hypothesis is a retelling of Star Wars: it felt like fanfic.
So what was the point of writing a retelling of a book when you aren't going to add anything or say anything or have anything in common with the original??
Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death
aurslde's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Murder