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A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
5.0
adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 2/5 🌶️🌶️

“To those who escaped a love like death, and to those still caught in its grasp: you are the hero’s of this story”. 

🧛🏻Gothic Dark Fantasy 
🧛🏻 Dracula Retelling 
🧛🏻 Lyrical Prose 
🧛🏻 Found Family
🧛🏻 Standalone 
🧛🏻 Dracula’s Bride Point of View

This book is a Dracula retelling but from his wives Constanta’s point of view. This story goes into details of her life after she turned into a vampire, through Dracula’s bringing home other partners: an aristocratic wife and artist husband. The more she learns about Dracula’s past, the more and more conflicted she starts to feel. 

⚠️ Authors- Provided Warnings: 
Emotional, verbal and physical inmate partner abuse, gaslighting, war, famine, and plague, blood and gore, consensual sexual content, sadomasochism, self harm, body horror, violence and murder, alcohol use, depression and mania. 

✨My review:
Personally I absolutely loved this retelling and from a different point of view. I found it very hard to put this book down to be 100% honest. It really is extremely faced paced. Not overly spicy but does have some spicy just not a whole lot. Really actually and truthfully went into this book with a blind eye not really knowing much about it. But I’m really glad now that I read it. For sure a book that I’ll be recommending out a lot.