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Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
Graphic: Death, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Racism, Suicide, Death of parent, Lesbophobia
Moderate: Death, Racism, Blood, Medical content, Lesbophobia
Minor: Child death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Grief
I guess I’m eating my words about not liking the writing style of classics, huh?
I loved the writing style of this book. It was atmospheric and gothic, I loved the setting of the castle and the grassy hills and the ruins of the old town. I pictured fog over everything anytime they were outside. Now I wanna have a picnic at old castle ruins in the fog with a pretty vampire. (Sadly that doesn’t happen in this book but it could’ve). This might be my favorite classic I’ve read so far… it’s at least tied with Dracula, but I think it tops it. It actually got pretty creepy at times.
Was also a little surprised how explicitly sapphic it was, given when it was written. I was expecting it to just be homoerotic in the way that classics sometimes are, or overtly homophobic. I think it’s safe to assume that the combination of sapphic elements and vampirism was very intentional.. automatically villainizing lesbianism by portraying it as a ‘virus’ that you can ‘catch’, something that’s evil and scary… But reading it it isn’t actually explicitly homophobic. It’s all subtext. It could easily be read through a more modern lens, removing that subtext.
“Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Minor: Ableism, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia
Graphic: Blood, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Classism
Moderate: Medical content, Murder, Lesbophobia
Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Murder, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Violence, Blood, Abandonment
Minor: Death, Grief, Alcohol
Graphic: Lesbophobia
Moderate: Sexism
Minor: Racism