ETA: the people have spoken! Carmilla shall do the honor of badging me, and then I will get to fully appreciate Hungerstone. Special mention to Carmilla and Laura, Baby Teeth, and The Gilda Stories which got a few votes as well!

Hi friends!! I've been loving this quest recently and I'm one away from the champion badge (which would be my first side quest badge!!) and I'd love to pick a good one! I don't have any still on my tbr so I'm a total blank slate here, though I do recognize some. Generally I think I really like complex characters and messy relationships and I want the vampire aspect to be a major element! I'll also list the 4 I read below and some stuff I did and didn't like in case that can help y'all steer me in the right direction :) Appreciate your help sapphic vamp hotties!

⚠️ Since I'm mentioning some details from the books I read please beware spoilers in case you're sensitive towards those! Not gonna mention anything huge plotwise but yaknow, character details, vibes, concept, etc

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: this one is fully on My Taste now. I loved it!!!! Really really into the moral greyness here and would gladly pick up another with a character like Sabine. Also love the way it was very mentally involved to figure out what was going on
• A Dowry of Blood: loved the gorgeous writing in this and how atmospheric it was! Would appreciate a heads up if any recs have a similar or even larger amount of abuse than this.
• An Education in Malice: loved the toxic obsessive wlw behavior, into the spice, totally down for more of that. The concept of this was really good but I kinda just wanted it to dig in more somehow, like the plot felt like it was taking away from the good stuff
• My Darling Dreadful Thing: I'm still a lil scaredy cat when it comes to horror but this was definitely a tolerable amount of spook for me! I liked that I didn't know what was real. Would love a more pronounced vampire element though!