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Blood Type
by K.A. Linde
I didn’t like Blood Type. I knew from the cover it probably wasn’t going to be my kind of book but I powered through the bland characters, non-existent worldbuilding, and dull writing and all I have to say is: That wasn’t for me.
Blood Type follows Reyna, a down-and-out girl in her early twenties in desperate need of a job. Out of desperation, she becomes a Blood Escort meaning she gets paid to be the loving blood bag to a vampire. She’s assigned to the brooding and mysterious Beckham and from there romance ensues.
My first problem with this book was how flat Reyna was as a character. She was dragged along by the narrative and barely ever made any decisions for herself. Even her only hobby in this book photography wasn’t anything she chose for herself Beckham, our love interest gives her a camera halfway through the book to distract her. She’s boring and does little to carry the story.
Speaking of Beckham I didn’t like him very much either. He felt like a cardboard cut out of a person rather than a fully realized person. He was dark and brooding with no depth to his character. He was consistently rude to Reyna for no reason. And I have no clue why he has any romantic interest in Reyna at all. Beckham had no motivations throughout the novel and Linde’s third act plot twist only made his character more confusing.
The romantic conflict of this book while kind of ridiculous is the only thing I found myself genuinely enjoying from time to time. The tension between Reyna and Beckham is about his general standoffish Ness and refusal to drink Reyna’s blood despite this being her only job description. I found Reyna’s anxieties about Beckham not drinking her blood a bit nonsensical because no poor person in desperate need of money would ever complain about getting paid thousand to do nothing. However, what Linde does really well is the building of sexual tension between Reyna and Beckham. The best scenes in the book were the (almost) sex scenes.
A major frustration I had with this book was Linde’s consistent use of sexual assault and the threat of rape to build cheap tension. This happening even once would have been too much but the ceaseless use of this as a plot device was gross and gratuitous. I got the impression that Linde was doing this to make Beckham look comparatively good. It gives off a “He may be a pushy asshole but at least he’s not raping her, am I right?
Blood Type follows Reyna, a down-and-out girl in her early twenties in desperate need of a job. Out of desperation, she becomes a Blood Escort meaning she gets paid to be the loving blood bag to a vampire. She’s assigned to the brooding and mysterious Beckham and from there romance ensues.
My first problem with this book was how flat Reyna was as a character. She was dragged along by the narrative and barely ever made any decisions for herself. Even her only hobby in this book photography wasn’t anything she chose for herself Beckham, our love interest gives her a camera halfway through the book to distract her. She’s boring and does little to carry the story.
Speaking of Beckham I didn’t like him very much either. He felt like a cardboard cut out of a person rather than a fully realized person. He was dark and brooding with no depth to his character. He was consistently rude to Reyna for no reason. And I have no clue why he has any romantic interest in Reyna at all. Beckham had no motivations throughout the novel and Linde’s third act plot twist only made his character more confusing.
The romantic conflict of this book while kind of ridiculous is the only thing I found myself genuinely enjoying from time to time. The tension between Reyna and Beckham is about his general standoffish Ness and refusal to drink Reyna’s blood despite this being her only job description. I found Reyna’s anxieties about Beckham not drinking her blood a bit nonsensical because no poor person in desperate need of money would ever complain about getting paid thousand to do nothing. However, what Linde does really well is the building of sexual tension between Reyna and Beckham. The best scenes in the book were the (almost) sex scenes.
A major frustration I had with this book was Linde’s consistent use of sexual assault and the threat of rape to build cheap tension. This happening even once would have been too much but the ceaseless use of this as a plot device was gross and gratuitous. I got the impression that Linde was doing this to make Beckham look comparatively good. It gives off a “He may be a pushy asshole but at least he’s not raping her, am I right?