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Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, War
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Child death
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, War
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
2.5/5 🌶
Definitely was not expecting much from this novella, but so glad I read it! I loved the enemies ➡️ friends ➡️ lovers in this, and how we gradually get to see this relationship grow (I hate insta-love!).
Plot was exciting and very well written. I wasn't too shocked about the twists, but still ended up pleasantly surprised at the end. FMC has great growth here (we ❤️ a strong female) with her journey being not only physical but also struggles mentally. MMC was everything you want in a broody, grumpy sunshine.
Overall, happy about this choice. Onto the next!
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
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
Previous DNF review:
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
Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
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.
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Murder, War
Minor: Child death, Death of parent
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Sexual content, Blood
Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Torture, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, War