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Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent

47 reviews

rosyposk's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, War

spatterson7's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Alcohol

jkat1313's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This was such a good enemies to lovers standalone. Love this authors writing and how it flows and is structured. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail

daisycantread24's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

grace_b_3's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

witcheep's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book had a very slow hook to it: it was hard for me to be interested enough to keep reading. Seems like I previously paused my reading just before things got interesting, though, since now I enjoyed the book well enough. 😅

I much prefer this Broadbent's standalone novel to her fantasy series, where I've enjoyed the first book just to be agonized to find the characters

in an even more perilous

situation in the prequel. I don't thrive in reading about constant suffering, and even though this book had plenty of that, there were enough lighter moments to balance them out. With this standalone, I can be happy that these characters have had their adventure (

even though they are promised to have an appearance in the Crowns of Nyaxia series

) and I'm content with how things turned out for them.

Previous DNF review:

I consider this book paused: I'll continue it some day (I bought it, so might as well), but seems that day isn't near yet. It has already been sitting unopened a couple of months since I first picked it up, so it can wait more. Maybe I'll be in the mood for this later.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Slavery, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

clairebartholomew549's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I just love silly little vampire romance books. They bring me so much joy! Carissa Broadbent is so good at writing these stories, and I was so satisfied with this standalone book. I appreciated the slow burn and the unfolding of Sylina's understanding of her past and current role, and the way Atrius as a character was unpacked was lovely. Chemistry was sizzling, plot was easy to follow, and I loved our spunky Sylina. All in all, a great read!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail

v_____'s review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 I didn’t miss sight anymore...

- Slaying the Vampire Conqueror, p. 1


This review is quite difficult for me, because I loved the other three books from the Crowns of Nyaxia world we have so far.

But I absolutely didn't love this. The only reason why I finished it, was because the characters will be playing a role in the upcoming CoN books.

I was just so bored and I didn't care about the characters at all. Everything they did, felt like they had to work through an errand list, I was so annoyed after a while.

Sylina and Atrius have no chemistry in my opinion and it makes no sense that she fell for him (the story is from her pov).
Pretty much everything is so foreseeable and even the plot twist towards the end didn't really shock me (not to say I expected that THAT would happen, I just didn't care for it).

Besides that, there were some plot elements, that didn't make sense, like how did Atrius even make it this far, without Sylina, she pretty much told him how to do the conquering from the moment they meet...

However, I hope that CoN3 will be much better and more like the other main books. It would be a shame if this series got worse with every book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Minor: Child death, Death of parent

sibard's review against another edition

5.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

luna_lovelace's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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 The story's concept was truly intriguing, but it was riddled with several inconsistencies that made it difficult to appreciate. The most significant issue was the unexplained resolution of how the protagonist dealt with the loss of her friend to vampires. Although it was brought up in the beginning, the story never revisited it, leaving it unresolved. 

I found it hard to comprehend how

Atrius, the MMC who was betrayed by the protagonist, could forgive her so easily. This was a crucial part of the book that took a while to unfold, so the sudden forgiveness felt like a major plot hole.

 

With that being said, the book was still enjoyable, particularly due to the protagonist's remarkable character development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent, Classism