HOLY TYPOS, WHERE WAS YOUR EDITOR? This was just embarrassing, like at least one typo every 5 pages. The daddy kink ain’t it… every time it was mentioned, I just immediately pretended like I didn’t just read it. Story was cringe in every way, especially the mushy scenes. I felt like I was reading a bad soap opera

There’s no denying that V.E. Schwab is a talented ass writer, I have loved her other books. This one however did not hit for me. My two biggest gripes were the pacing was astronomically slowwwww and the way the supernatural aspect of this book WAS the plot instead of supporting the plot. Vampires are a tale as old as time. The fact they are simply vampires can no longer be the focus to drive a story IMO. Beautiful writing - boring story. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s all been done before 🥱

4.25 ⭐️ A bit hard to get into at first but by the end, I really appreciated how fleshed out these characters were. I hated them, I loved them, I questioned everything they did constantly, and I related. I realized the eldest sister was rubbing me wrong the whole time, until the end and I realized “holy shit, I am her” 😅. I’ve never experienced grief of a sibling, nor the closeness of sisters in general, but after reading this - I feel more attuned to both. Great character driven book

This does what a book is supposed to do. It made me uncomfortable and to take a second look around at the world we live in. Question it. The author used real life examples and actual cases to make a point about the world we live in. We are only a few steps away from living in this fucked up dystopian world.

2.5 ⭐️ My aphantasia made it so hard to enjoy this. I just felt constant struggle to imagine what was happening. All in all, I just couldn’t stay engaged reading this, I wasn’t counting down the hours until I could pick this book up again. The last 30 pages IMO were soo unnecessary, it felt like a random filler episode of a 22 episode show but occurring AFTER the season finale. 😵‍💫