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A Dowry of Blood
by S.T. Gibson
This book is sweetness of blood, illicit relationships, forbidden kisses, destructive cravings and sins of the flesh come to life. Every line of this book is like biting into the fruit of life and feeling its juices run down your lips and seep into your traitorous heart. It is written in a way to make the reader gorge themselves upon it, writhe in pleasure amongst its delicate and exquisite pain. It is the incarnation of the lust for life, in its many forms.
I love how this book explores many different types of toxic relationships within its polycule of Dracula and his spouses. Written in second person, without ever once naming Dracula, it makes the reader feel a variety of emotions - guilt, pleasure, pain, exultation and betrayal. Though told from the perspective of only one of the brides of Dracula, it paints all of them in many colours; while leaving Dracula in black & white. A revenge, of sorts, for all he does to his spouses’ souls, and in an immaculate reversal of how Dracula remixes are often told.
This book elicited every emotion under the sun from me in the span of its small length, all the while thrilling and delighting me with its evocative nature. It is one book that I will remember for a long time for its prose and themes, and one that I will revisit many times in the future.
I love how this book explores many different types of toxic relationships within its polycule of Dracula and his spouses. Written in second person, without ever once naming Dracula, it makes the reader feel a variety of emotions - guilt, pleasure, pain, exultation and betrayal. Though told from the perspective of only one of the brides of Dracula, it paints all of them in many colours; while leaving Dracula in black & white. A revenge, of sorts, for all he does to his spouses’ souls, and in an immaculate reversal of how Dracula remixes are often told.
This book elicited every emotion under the sun from me in the span of its small length, all the while thrilling and delighting me with its evocative nature. It is one book that I will remember for a long time for its prose and themes, and one that I will revisit many times in the future.