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Darknesses by Lachelle Seville
5.0
One of my most anticipated reads of 2022 and it DID NOT LET ME DOWN
If anything, it exceeded my wildest hopes!
11/10, FLAWLESS, WONDERFUL, HILARIOUS, ORIGINAL, I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT
PROPER REVIEW TO COME!!!
HIGHLIGHTS
~Black vampires!
~so many flavours of queer
~own your scars
~#BatsAreBest
~beware pink flames
Darknesses is officially my new favourite vampire novel.
Seriously, there is nothing I do not love about this book! It had me laughing my head off, reading quotes aloud to the hubby, clutching my ereader to my chest, and breathless on the edge of my seat by turns. Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop until I reached the end – I ended up devouring the whole book in two sittings, and it would have been one if I hadn’t had to break to sleep!
Where do I even start???
If I were pitching Darknesses to a friend, I’d probably say something like: this is Twilight grown up, Black, queer as fuck, and featuring vampires that are unapologetically deadly.
…So nothing like Twilight, basically. The anti-Twilight, in fact.
IT’S SO FREAKING AWESOME!
Oasis is a survivor still adapting to the ‘normal’ world after years of being brainwashed and brutalised by a cult. Laura is the glorious woman who sweeps into the bookshop where Oasis works to buy every copy of Dracula she can find – so that she can burn them. Because they’re libel against the true Dracula – Laura herself.
When the two of them hit it off, it’s a catalyst that changes them both forever.
Oasis is no simpering, meek, swept-off-her-feet romance heroine, seduced to the dark side by the big bad vampire; she’s fragile in some ways after what she’s been through, and has healing to do, but she’s a survivor, tough as nails and fierce and infinitely far from passive. She accepts Laura’s strangeness lovingly, easily, and reading along as she grew into her confidence and strength over the course of the book was a joy. I can’t remember the last time I cheered on a character this much!
Read the rest at Every Book a Doorway!
If anything, it exceeded my wildest hopes!
11/10, FLAWLESS, WONDERFUL, HILARIOUS, ORIGINAL, I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT
PROPER REVIEW TO COME!!!
HIGHLIGHTS
~Black vampires!
~so many flavours of queer
~own your scars
~#BatsAreBest
~beware pink flames
Darknesses is officially my new favourite vampire novel.
Seriously, there is nothing I do not love about this book! It had me laughing my head off, reading quotes aloud to the hubby, clutching my ereader to my chest, and breathless on the edge of my seat by turns. Once I started reading, I couldn’t stop until I reached the end – I ended up devouring the whole book in two sittings, and it would have been one if I hadn’t had to break to sleep!
Where do I even start???
If I were pitching Darknesses to a friend, I’d probably say something like: this is Twilight grown up, Black, queer as fuck, and featuring vampires that are unapologetically deadly.
…So nothing like Twilight, basically. The anti-Twilight, in fact.
IT’S SO FREAKING AWESOME!
Oasis is a survivor still adapting to the ‘normal’ world after years of being brainwashed and brutalised by a cult. Laura is the glorious woman who sweeps into the bookshop where Oasis works to buy every copy of Dracula she can find – so that she can burn them. Because they’re libel against the true Dracula – Laura herself.
When the two of them hit it off, it’s a catalyst that changes them both forever.
Oasis is no simpering, meek, swept-off-her-feet romance heroine, seduced to the dark side by the big bad vampire; she’s fragile in some ways after what she’s been through, and has healing to do, but she’s a survivor, tough as nails and fierce and infinitely far from passive. She accepts Laura’s strangeness lovingly, easily, and reading along as she grew into her confidence and strength over the course of the book was a joy. I can’t remember the last time I cheered on a character this much!
“You were born in the 1400s?”
Laura licks wine off her lips, nodding.
“January 26th, 1431, in Sighisoara.”
“I was born July 13th, 1996, in Wichita,” I say. “I should check and see if we’re astrologically compatible.”
Read the rest at Every Book a Doorway!