Review by blacksphinx - This Ravenous Fate

blacksphinx 's review for:

This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings

1.5

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is a fantasy with a side of sapphic, enemies-to-lovers romance featuring Black vampires during the Harlem Renaissance, and I did not enjoy it at all. It's just stupid people making bad decisions for almost 500 pages. Characters change their minds on a dime and frequently contradict themselves, sometimes in the same conversation. I found myself constantly muttering "really?" and "are you dumb?" under my breath. The book is a lot slower than I was expecting, made even worse by the super-slow audiobook narrator. I think I would have had a little more tolerance for it if the book was shorter. The only redemptive part was the romance between Layla and Elise, and even then there are some dumb choices made by these characters. If I wasn't tearing my hair out over the overall plot so much I'd find that forgivable, but it led to an extremely frustrating reading experience.

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