okay i haven’t read catty’s little sub story yet but !!!!! that felt like such a rushed ending im a little sad. like it just felt so drastic of a change that alice was anxious and didn’t know how she was going to destroy sabine and couldn’t control her thoughts etc etc then she was in the bathroom like 2 minutes and then it was like ??? oh sabine’s come in oh sabine’s gone ??? wtf. and then lottie too? i mean badass i do think she deserved it but still it felt so un-alice and such a quick development.

this book is definitely at least a 4 star for me, maybe slightly more, i need to dwell a bit more, and i wouldn’t say the ending’s put its rating way down but damn i’m disappointed

funny to say given how long the book already is but i do wish there was more of a fight and a chase before the two deaths.

i did like the last chapter though, i thought her chat with her dad who’s obviously acting as though everything’s still normal was sweet and though i have no idea how she’s going to resume normal life as a vamp i like the idea of her trying to continue uni anyway 😅

also also it is interesting to think that towards the start the girls get away with killing men bc the men see the girls are less powerful/able/prey rather than a threat. and that’s kinda what happens at the end, sabine doesn’t see alice as a threat, lets her guard down, gets killed. idk maybe im just trying to make myself feel better about the ending lmao

okay additionally, i keep having more post-read thoughts lmao: given how anticlimactic the ending was it does leave you thinking why didn’t lottie get another vampire to kill sabine yeaaars ago when she was causing lottie all that grief with giada and penny etc. like no offence to alice but if she could do it as a baby vampire surly many others could’ve too. i get it was a lure as to sabine giving into alice bc she knew she was connected to/seeing lottie. but then alice and lottie’s relationship wasn’t all that convincing anyway, like they went out together being affectionate once and all the while alice’s mind is full of anxious thoughts and not being able to stop thinking of sabine, so surly their affection couldn’t have looked all that natural. i mean did sabine lose herself to that far of a degree that she couldn’t see through all that anymore idk