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Bitter Waters

Vivian Shaw

4.17 AVERAGE

rynnikins's review against another edition

5.0

emotional lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

eggcatsreads's review against another edition

5.0

A perfect little story to connect the events of Grave Importance to move towards Strange New World, this novella gave me everything I love in this series in a small bite-sized portion. I, unfortunately, wound up reading Strange New World before this novella, and while there were some references to this in the book, it was all explained through the text where you wouldn’t lose any understanding.

However! Why would you want to miss this? We are given a glimpse into how Greta has been living at Dark Heart along with a closer look at Dracula, as well as those creatures living on the land. Lucy is a delightful child and we feel for her circumstances, and it was fun to see the foreboding and untouchable Count Dracul and his wife be suddenly inundated with questions from an inquisitive 10 year old - as well as how the wider vampiric society works. We get a closer look into Ruthven and Grisaille’s lives, as well as a glimpse into Ruthven’s inner thoughts and how he became the vampire he is today.

All in all, I think anyone who enjoys these novels will have a blast revisiting these characters in this novella, and be excited to see where the story continues from this point in the next novel.

A huge thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Orbit for providing this digital copy.

incandescentreads's review against another edition

3.5

Rating : 3,5 ⭐
This was short and sweet, but not much more.

a_ab's review against another edition

4.0

For me this is the best book in the series — short and to the point, with enough development to move things along and none of the usual pointless coming and going that annoyed me in the other books.

alkora's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful fast-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

lisaarnsdorf's review against another edition

5.0

dark hopeful sad tense fast-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: Yes

What a great story! It dealt so nicely with current social issues while also examine good versus bad, wrong versus right, having a purpose versus being frivolous. It was such a tight, well edited plot. And I loved the intro to our new undead beings! And I really liked all of the references to vampires in literature.