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2 stars
This wasn’t my cup of tea: too repetitive, too long with not enough happening, plot- or character wise, making it quite boring. My mind wandered off quite often and I felt no urge to rewind and relisten.
Characters 4
Atmosphere 5
Writing Style 7
Premise 4
Plot 2
Pace 2
Length 2
Structure/Setup 2
Enjoyment/Engrossment 2
Narration 7
This wasn’t my cup of tea: too repetitive, too long with not enough happening, plot- or character wise, making it quite boring. My mind wandered off quite often and I felt no urge to rewind and relisten.
Characters 4
Atmosphere 5
Writing Style 7
Premise 4
Plot 2
Pace 2
Length 2
Structure/Setup 2
Enjoyment/Engrossment 2
Narration 7
There’s nothing new here, especially if you’ve read Anne Rice. That said, I liked it well enough, particularly in audio format as the narrators were top notch.
I went into this blind, without knowing it is a horror story or why. I got an inkling pretty quickly, when Maria met that mysterious widow. Nice surprise and mostly well done. There is nothing really new here in regards to vampires. But they are not the thing that drove the story for me anyway. It was more about these three women finding themselves, finding freedom, finding love—well, again mostly, one of them turned into a pretty horrible being.
And yes, it made me think of Anne Rice‘s Vampire ...more
And yes, it made me think of Anne Rice‘s Vampire ...more
aaaaa my first ARC!
at first i thought this was gonna be my favorite schwab by far, and i did enjoy it overall, but by the end i felt… unsatisfied.
what i liked:
- lesbian as hell
- really lovely prose
- evocative historical settings that i enjoyed sinking into
- poignant meditation on vampirism as a state of bottomless hunger
- i thought alice’s character, and the themes of sisterhood and social anxiety, were really well-done
what i didn’t:
- plot-wise, it dragged for me from about 30% until 90%. i di ...more
at first i thought this was gonna be my favorite schwab by far, and i did enjoy it overall, but by the end i felt… unsatisfied.
what i liked:
- lesbian as hell
- really lovely prose
- evocative historical settings that i enjoyed sinking into
- poignant meditation on vampirism as a state of bottomless hunger
- i thought alice’s character, and the themes of sisterhood and social anxiety, were really well-done
what i didn’t:
- plot-wise, it dragged for me from about 30% until 90%. i di ...more
Beautifully written and very engaging. So really really close to a 5! I just didn’t know it was all vampires…. Silly me. Really good ending.
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