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Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas
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Going from all the hot vampires I’ve been reading about this year to whatever that was? The whiplash is real 😭😂
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Vampires of El Norte
Isabel Cañas
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Thirteen (Eddie Flynn, #4)
Steve Cavanagh
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I could never have guessed in the beginning of the book that I would gulf down 75% of it nearly non-stop. Once the book found its groove (around chapter 6 or 7 for me), I stopped being slightly annoyed that everyone was just super horny and there wasn't much plot or lore being revealed, and was able to just enjoy the ride.
There's a dizzying heaviness to the lusty, romantic, Scottish countryside atmosphere of this book. It feels like they're all under a spell and so are you. It's an exciting feeling, slightly spooky, very spice-heavy, and disorienting.
The ending of the book was exciting, giving us some much needed plot-development! Makes me actually want to continue this series, wishing for a dark and twisted sequel ✨️✨️
I would call this a vibey immersive read for a weekend at home alone, not something to pick up if you're looking for a literary masterpiece. But it was really fun all the same, and hit the spot just right.
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I could never have guessed in the beginning of the book that I would gulf down 75% of it nearly non-stop. Once the book found its groove (around chapter 6 or 7 for me), I stopped being slightly annoyed that everyone was just super horny and there wasn't much plot or lore being revealed, and was able to just enjoy the ride.
There's a dizzying heaviness to the lusty, romantic, Scottish countryside atmosphere of this book. It feels like they're all under a spell and so are you. It's an exciting feeling, slightly spooky, very spice-heavy, and disorienting.
The ending of the book was exciting, giving us some much needed plot-development! Makes me actually want to continue this series, wishing for a dark and twisted sequel ✨️✨️
I would call this a vibey immersive read for a weekend at home alone, not something to pick up if you're looking for a literary masterpiece. But it was really fun all the same, and hit the spot just right.
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Savage Blooms
S.T. Gibson
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As something I just randomly picked up, I did not expect to love this book as much as I did. Ilse’s story is beautifully told and does a great job of exploring themes of womanhood, trauma, and identity. All of the characters felt like real, complex people and all of the main cast, along with a fair few secondary characters, received a decent bit of development. Definitely one of my top books for the year.
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Season of Fear
Emily Cooper
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"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view."
"Why?"
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, am actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's own nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked."
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"They were both very bad at saying no to the greedy little fires within them that burned every hour of the day, begging to be fed with adventure or kisses or the heady rush of a whirlwind twenty-four-hour romance."
They are so in trouble 😂 I feel that this book is going to be heavy with adventure and kisses as all kinds of indiscreet suggestions that they won't want to turn down. I like the anticipation, although the tone of the beginning was different than I was expecting. Somehow more casual and modern, but then again maybe comparing it to Dowry of Blood is also unfair, since the time period and subject matter are very different.
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Such a solid classic! Moody, tragic, and compelling. And although obviously not as rich in plot or imagery as its modern counterparts, I can appreciate that it has inspired the genre, and the sapphic romance in it was great!