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A review by juliettecais
The Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling
4.0
3.8*
first of all, thank you to hodder & stoughton and netgalley for the arc.
this is my first isabel sterling book but i've been hearing many thoughts about her other series and the premise of this really intrigued me. i mean a sapphic paranormal romance with a murder mystery element in it sounds like a fun time to me!
i enjoyed reading this, but it didn't completely take over me like i thought it would. it WAS a fun time though, and I had a lot of fun with the main characters. What I loved is the friendship between elise, maggie, and her ex boyfriend jordan. I think the strongest point of this book was that, and also elise's journey of discovering her identity. i also really loved the premise - a lesbian vampire and a bisexual girl who can see people's death if they ever get in contact with her - but even though i like their chemistry, it was good at best but i would've loved more development from them. i also think a lot of it was just done super fast and too insta-love in my opinion. i also liked that there are other queer characters in this book!
the things i didn't love - the introduction to the world! i had a hard time figuring out what the hell claire was talking about in the first place and how there's suddenly a bunch of names thrown in. i also was not sold on the romance, even though it was a huge part of why i picked this book up.
but overall, this was a solid book and if you want something fun to pick up, this book would be a great one to pick up! also makes me wish there are more of these concepts in YA, but this is definitely a start.
first of all, thank you to hodder & stoughton and netgalley for the arc.
this is my first isabel sterling book but i've been hearing many thoughts about her other series and the premise of this really intrigued me. i mean a sapphic paranormal romance with a murder mystery element in it sounds like a fun time to me!
i enjoyed reading this, but it didn't completely take over me like i thought it would. it WAS a fun time though, and I had a lot of fun with the main characters. What I loved is the friendship between elise, maggie, and her ex boyfriend jordan. I think the strongest point of this book was that, and also elise's journey of discovering her identity. i also really loved the premise - a lesbian vampire and a bisexual girl who can see people's death if they ever get in contact with her - but even though i like their chemistry, it was good at best but i would've loved more development from them. i also think a lot of it was just done super fast and too insta-love in my opinion. i also liked that there are other queer characters in this book!
the things i didn't love - the introduction to the world! i had a hard time figuring out what the hell claire was talking about in the first place and how there's suddenly a bunch of names thrown in. i also was not sold on the romance, even though it was a huge part of why i picked this book up.
but overall, this was a solid book and if you want something fun to pick up, this book would be a great one to pick up! also makes me wish there are more of these concepts in YA, but this is definitely a start.