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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
mysterious
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Im not sure it was just a bit hard to get into. I also accidentally returned it from my kindle to the libby. Oh well maybe in th w future I’ll try this one again 🤷🏻♀️
Never read Jane Eyre and maybe if I had I’d feel more connected to the characters. Unfortunately it was too slow for me right now
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
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
challenging
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hm. Hm.
On the one hand I read it in a single sitting and it held my attention all the way through. On the other hand, hm.
I get that to some extent it's all one elaborate metaphor about surviving abuse and how it never really leaves you until it's in your face again and you can't run from it forever, and how sometimes the best your can do is attempt to break the cycle and how abusers 9 times out of 10 are the charming ones. I get all of that, but I don't know if it... works? I guess?
I can't tell if it's cultural osmosis finally doing its job and de-clawing Dracula so much that him as a threat is just not the night terror it once was, and thus I can't take him seriously or what, but the minute he's speaking on page I'm just kinda like, "yeah alright, sure."
I do like the interesting things it does with vampire abilities, the fact that the sun doesn't hurt physically but mentally because that's a late canon addition as well as the whole thing with the rot. (and Drac smelling like roses, that's a nice touch as leaving a rose on his coffin would allegedly keep him at bay in the original book and Red OSP is right, why hasn't that come back)
I buy Rochester as a villain, he's the sort of uber control freak that I know in real life, paring him with Drac doesn't make any sense other than it's what keeps Lucy and Bee together.
This book also suffers from transit-itis a lot, getting too and from places is valuable because of the fact that these girls are on the run and the first person perspective lets us live in Lucy's head, but it takes up large chunks of the book and I'm very /: about it.
I think maybe I would've liked it more as a duel first person, swapping between Bee and Lucy because there is a section where Bee does straight up disappear from the narrative only to find her mysteriously damselled.
On the one hand I read it in a single sitting and it held my attention all the way through. On the other hand, hm.
I get that to some extent it's all one elaborate metaphor about surviving abuse and how it never really leaves you until it's in your face again and you can't run from it forever, and how sometimes the best your can do is attempt to break the cycle and how abusers 9 times out of 10 are the charming ones. I get all of that, but I don't know if it... works? I guess?
I can't tell if it's cultural osmosis finally doing its job and de-clawing Dracula so much that him as a threat is just not the night terror it once was, and thus I can't take him seriously or what, but the minute he's speaking on page I'm just kinda like, "yeah alright, sure."
I do like the interesting things it does with vampire abilities, the fact that the sun doesn't hurt physically but mentally because that's a late canon addition as well as the whole thing with the rot. (and Drac smelling like roses, that's a nice touch as leaving a rose on his coffin would allegedly keep him at bay in the original book and Red OSP is right, why hasn't that come back)
I buy Rochester as a villain, he's the sort of uber control freak that I know in real life, paring him with Drac doesn't make any sense other than it's what keeps Lucy and Bee together.
This book also suffers from transit-itis a lot, getting too and from places is valuable because of the fact that these girls are on the run and the first person perspective lets us live in Lucy's head, but it takes up large chunks of the book and I'm very /: about it.
I think maybe I would've liked it more as a duel first person, swapping between Bee and Lucy because there is a section where Bee does straight up disappear from the narrative only to find her mysteriously damselled.