It was okay. I enjoyed it in the beginning because I came up with (I say came up with because idk if was right) some parallels to the original Carmilla retelling. My interest took a nose dive when Isis was introduced. Everything after that, wasn’t really entertaining for me. I started disconnecting from the story.

I'll be honest, the only reason I finished this is because it's apart of two quests I'm in. There wasn't anything gravely wrong with the book, I just prefer my sapphic vampires with a little more rage than this had to offer. So, I wasn't invested in the characters and there wasn't anything interesting plot wise either.

If you're looking for a fun audiobook, enjoy a sapphic rivals-to-lovers trope, or need to get a quest badge this is interesting enough 😅🤷‍♀️

I ate this baby upppp, devoured her in 3 days and cannot wait to read more from ST Gibson. It's by no means a perfect book, I have quite a few polishing points, but nothing detracted from my enjoyment until I turned a critical eye to craft.

This is sexy, sophisticated, unabashedly sapphic, and beautifully poetic. I frequently encountered lines that stopped me in my tracks, I was deeply invested in the relationships, and I appreciated that we didn't linger too long on the nuts and bolts of vampirism (that being said, this is not a great choice for those new to vampire lore)

Still, a few things did not work for me which keeps this from being a full 5 stars. Gibson clearly had many big ideas while drafting, and the story would have benefited from some thematic restraint. We flirt with huge topics and get pulled into massive storylines, only to realize 150 pages later the plot thread fizzled out or the theme was never revisited. I found this a shame, as some really interesting things were introduced (kinks, sub/dom, emotional manipulation, psychological abuse to name a few) yet none grew teeth in the way we would expect from a dark and twisty vampire novel.

Still, highly recommend this esp for sapphic lit lovers