3.5 ⭐ I am thankful that I received an e-arc copy of this book through NetGalley for my honest opinion. Review contains minor spoilers. In barely 200 pages, I experienced so many emotions that I'm finding it difficult to process. Mostly, this book isn't very deep or thought-provoking and is largely just hedonistic fun. Unfortunately for me, I am unable to separate myself from putting getting emotionally invested as if I were the person in the situation, so watching a husband get entranced by another and leave his wife really did a number on me, and I ended up sending my boyfriend a tearful voice note at 1:30 am. He found this highly amusing. In the process of reading this book, I was very quickly reminded of why I could personally never be in an open/poly relationship, despite my love for polyamorous romance books. Right off the bat, I could tell this book was quite unique just based on the writing style. It took me a while to get used to, and a part of me feels like I never did. There would often be moments I would need to re-read a section, thinking I missed a line, only to find I didn't, leaving me starved for more context. There were a lot of things I would have loved more clarification on, and I feel like the writing style excused itself from providing such information to the reader, as it was subject to the whims of Rebakah's short attention span and selfish desires. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and I actually found myself enjoying it most of the time, but there were things I wish had been communicated in more depth: - How do the vampires feed? It is quite apparent that they largely feed on emotion. Whether it's an emotion of their choosing or something each individual is naturally inclined towards is unknown, but I wonder if they also feed on blood. - What is Rebekah and Hugh's relationship like, really? They largely seemed not to enjoy each other's presence or personalities, both being bored or even annoyed at the other's interests and conversation topics (feelings, especially expressed by Rebekah and Hugh, were a seemingly one-dimensional character that didn't get very fleshed out). Despite my personal reaction to him leaving her, I am under no illusion that she was impacted by that for the same reasons I was. Rebekah craves attention and has an almost possessive hold on Hugh because she knows she would always have his. Until the moment she didn't, which in turn rocked her view of herself and self-confidence, which was the much more devastating blow. It's hard to explain, but the tone of the book and the way Rebekah communicated her thoughts and feelings reminded me of the film Poor Things starring Emma Stone. She is an incredibly unreliable narrator, exacerbated in how she's childish in the way a child only cares about their wants and desires, possessive in the way a child doesn't like to share their favourite toys, and greedy in the way a child craves the attention of the people in any given room. There was also a sense of unease present throughout the entire book as we, alongside Rebekah, are watching her husband very quickly fall under the thrall of an unknown being who seemingly has it out for Rebekah. It made for a very unsettling but intriguing experience that made it difficult to put the book down before I knew how it ended, which is great for such a short book. I actually quite liked the book and it is a story I would recommend to people as something that doesn't take a long time to read and is interesting to talk about.

Had to DNF this book about half way through, it started like it was in the middle of the book and read like a fanfic