A review by dreams_while_reading
Youngblood by Sasha Laurens

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I enjoyed this queer vampire friends to lovers, boarding school, murder mystery story but it fell a bit flat for me. It highlights a bunch of issues that are relevant to today's world and tons of high school drama. I did enjoy following Kat and her self discovery, learning to be who she truly was and not who she thought she was supposed to be.

I did notice there was quite a bit of uneven pacing throughout the story. Some areas dragged a bit while others felt completely rushed. Everything gets tied up in the last 50 pages of the book, which part of that was more of a "what happened afterwards". 

TW: homophobia, classism, references to racism, bloodborne virus, adjacent to drugging, murder, sex scenes, 
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