wyarttist's Reviews (73)

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I just stayed up until 2:30am reading this book because I couldn't put it down. Nearly flawless, my only complaint is the
whole 'if people believe you're bad eventually you'll believe it too' thing was proven true which is fucked but maybe book 2 fixes that maybe?
emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Putting my thoughts into a list because I literally JUST finished reading and my thoughts are all jumbled
1. wish the mystery/supernatural of it all was revealed earlier than 75% of the way into the book
2. BEGGING for more development for Bram.
it was immediately obvious to me that the friend outside the cell window would be dead and my first instinct was to be afraid for Annette

3. like another review said, this could have been extraordinary if it was adult fiction and really lean into the Gothic romance 
4. grossed/freaked me out way more than I was expecting which wasn't totally unwelcome as spooky season arrives!
5. the romance was cute at times but
Henri's... forceful nature at the beginning left a bad taste in my mouth for just about every other romantic moment they had together

6. I know this is mostly complaints but I actually thoroughly enjoyed it and read it super fast for my usual speed