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ciara_isreading's review against another edition
4.0
I love going in to books blind. I always have so much fun. I buddy read this and I'm so glad I did! Most of us flew through it, as it was a really easy read. I loved ST Gibson's writing and I fully intend to check out her other work.
My only wish is that this was a little darker. Laura is a student at St. Perpetua's and she becomes entranced with a fellow student, Carmilla, and their poetry professor, De Lafontaine. This story is filled with rivalry, lust, obsession, and blood. The first half was by far my favorite. The second half fell off somewhat, but I overall still really enjoyed it.
Highly recommend if you love dark academia and/or sapphic romances
My only wish is that this was a little darker. Laura is a student at St. Perpetua's and she becomes entranced with a fellow student, Carmilla, and their poetry professor, De Lafontaine. This story is filled with rivalry, lust, obsession, and blood. The first half was by far my favorite. The second half fell off somewhat, but I overall still really enjoyed it.
Highly recommend if you love dark academia and/or sapphic romances
jessicah_25's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- 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
5.0
amyjane78's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
l888nightreader's review
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
mashally's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
2.5
bethhaywood's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
rinjudes's review
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
fumbled the ending a little but i was chewing this up. thank you good writing thank you lesbians thank you tension thank you eroticism
heather_boo's review
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
While the plot of this sapphic vampire tale is centered on the developing relationship between Laura and Carmilla, the story that is actually more interesting is the one between the professor De Lafontaine and her creator Isis. So, the interesting story you won’t really get. What you do get is Laura coming of age and lots of sex between the two girls and the quintessential vampire orgy which scratches the S&M itch Laura has.
There’s a lot of power dynamic and identifying with the abuser from which these girls do not escape. There’s a line saying something like what is horror if it’s given by my beloved? Oh, dear. There is an affair between Carmilla and her teacher De Lafontaine, who later describes Carmilla as close to a daughter as she will ever have, and Carmilla begging to do anything for approval.
The interesting story is that De Lafontaine is compelled to awaken her own long hibernating abuser for no known reason. Once the newly awakened Isis begins randomly killing students she admits to her poor decision and now the narrative can steer towards the resolution of Isis which is performed so easily and swiftly one wonders why it wasn’t done sooner.
The writing style struggles in that this story is concerning high level academia with specially talented and educated poets, yet they say cliché after cliché and too many colloquialisms for their level of education to be believable. The language overall should have kept to a higher standard.
And finally, à la Anne Rice, it concludes with the ol’ I’ll give you the choice I never had. Ba dum.
There’s a lot of power dynamic and identifying with the abuser from which these girls do not escape. There’s a line saying something like what is horror if it’s given by my beloved? Oh, dear. There is an affair between Carmilla and her teacher De Lafontaine, who later describes Carmilla as close to a daughter as she will ever have, and Carmilla begging to do anything for approval.
The interesting story is that De Lafontaine is compelled to awaken her own long hibernating abuser for no known reason. Once the newly awakened Isis begins randomly killing students she admits to her poor decision and now the narrative can steer towards the resolution of Isis which is performed so easily and swiftly one wonders why it wasn’t done sooner.
The writing style struggles in that this story is concerning high level academia with specially talented and educated poets, yet they say cliché after cliché and too many colloquialisms for their level of education to be believable. The language overall should have kept to a higher standard.
And finally, à la Anne Rice, it concludes with the ol’ I’ll give you the choice I never had. Ba dum.