A review by skycastleshay
The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood

2.0

Actual rating 2.5 stars. I really wanted to love this one. If anyone was set up to love this book it was me, a historian who worked in a civil war museum and is obsessed with vampires. I thought the lore and the character backstories were well done. The writing style didn’t really bother me. Unfortunately I agree with most of the other reviews in terms of the relationship. I almost wish Lex and Jer wouldn’t have known each other for a whole year already because they’re established friends, they have an established bond but after a whole year she’s still name calling him and treating him like she would an enemy. Which, trauma fair, but then don’t have them be so established. It came off as if the only person in the world allowed to have trauma according to Jerusalem was Jerusalem. It was exhausting and that’s saying something that it was the most difficult part when I was braced to go in dealing with themes of slavery, violence against women and hate crimes.