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A review by oao
Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu
A few things I enjoyed: an ancient vampire living through time (while another character speculates them bipolar); the inclusion of iconographic writings.
But a few cliches as well: the absent mysterious one is someone already been introduced; the protagonist being the last of XXXX; “kill your gays”.
I don’t particularly think it’s a good idea to make the victims exclusively young women. I’m just tired of the larger culture insisting on terrorising women while reassuring men of their safety. And I’d like some reasoning behind why a vampire would turn into a loong. (because they can turn into anything at all? So that’s the form they’d choose when confronting someone of East Asian ancestry? “I can be whatever you want me to be.”(P91) I’m not sure figuratively or literally.)
Overall, a page turner and seemed underdeveloped.
But a few cliches as well: the absent mysterious one is someone already been introduced; the protagonist being the last of XXXX; “kill your gays”.
I don’t particularly think it’s a good idea to make the victims exclusively young women. I’m just tired of the larger culture insisting on terrorising women while reassuring men of their safety. And I’d like some reasoning behind why a vampire would turn into a loong. (because they can turn into anything at all? So that’s the form they’d choose when confronting someone of East Asian ancestry? “I can be whatever you want me to be.”(P91) I’m not sure figuratively or literally.)
Overall, a page turner and seemed underdeveloped.