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A review by eceleste
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
read 2: august 2024
this really clicked with me a lot more than last time (last time i think it was more of a 3.5 but i was too scared to rate it lowly bc my best friend absolutely loved it but this time it's more like 4.25) and i couldn't quite say why. i've really lately been loving books that toy with the intersection of genre and literary but not really in a magical realism way, like this is a literary story in an urban fantasy shell (the taxonomy of book genres is something that can be sooo special to me) but like all that aside. i really liked the writing, i like the way it was sort of quiet, i thought the idea of vampirism as an accepted medical cure was so interesting..i will say that sometimes the dialogue did not real like something anyone would ever say, like it read like they were reading prose out loud when they tried to describe their feelings, and i wish that more time had been spent on the eidolism because it was SOOOO interesting but came in so quickly and was resolved just as quickly. idk.
read 1: april 2022
i really loved the end of this book. maybe that's a weird thing to start my review on but the last couple chapters were so wonderful. i also really liked the concept of eidolism and the unique bits of the vampire lore in this! i didn't like as much how the plot wasn't always there, especially in the beginning (i'm very much a plot reader and there's a few exceptions but not many) but the writing was really good!
this really clicked with me a lot more than last time (last time i think it was more of a 3.5 but i was too scared to rate it lowly bc my best friend absolutely loved it but this time it's more like 4.25) and i couldn't quite say why. i've really lately been loving books that toy with the intersection of genre and literary but not really in a magical realism way, like this is a literary story in an urban fantasy shell (the taxonomy of book genres is something that can be sooo special to me) but like all that aside. i really liked the writing, i like the way it was sort of quiet, i thought the idea of vampirism as an accepted medical cure was so interesting..i will say that sometimes the dialogue did not real like something anyone would ever say, like it read like they were reading prose out loud when they tried to describe their feelings, and i wish that more time had been spent on the eidolism because it was SOOOO interesting but came in so quickly and was resolved just as quickly. idk.
read 1: april 2022
i really loved the end of this book. maybe that's a weird thing to start my review on but the last couple chapters were so wonderful. i also really liked the concept of eidolism and the unique bits of the vampire lore in this! i didn't like as much how the plot wasn't always there, especially in the beginning (i'm very much a plot reader and there's a few exceptions but not many) but the writing was really good!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Transphobia