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Death Becomes Him: The Sanguine Nest
Elias Marlowe was just a CDC intern trying to get through the Texas heat when his world suddenly turned upside down—a bite from a mysterious vampire launches him into a bizarre underworld of half-vampires, covens, and shifting loyalties.
Now torn between protecting his mentor Dr. Alarice Howard and embracing his newfound, turbulent life, Elias finds himself in a wild, unpredictable dance of power that threatens to consume him.
With danger lurking around every neon-lit corner and secrets unfolding like a bad Texas soap opera, he’s left can he control the monsters inside before they control him?
Now torn between protecting his mentor Dr. Alarice Howard and embracing his newfound, turbulent life, Elias finds himself in a wild, unpredictable dance of power that threatens to consume him.
With danger lurking around every neon-lit corner and secrets unfolding like a bad Texas soap opera, he’s left can he control the monsters inside before they control him?
488 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 24, 2025
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April 8, 2025
This book was just not very good, and it took me a lot longer to finish as I kept putting it down.
The MC is a 19yr old intern at the CDC (Center for Disease Control), which sounds comical as you would expect those positions to go to maybe doctorate students, not H.S. graduates. He's with his boss, that he had sex with the night before the book starts, investigating cattle that have been drained of blood. From there, they make the epically dumb decision to go visit a dive bar, and are both bitten by vampires. Because the MC has a unique DNA makeup, he becomes what is known as a Daybreaker vampire. He can walk in the sunlight.
The harem consists of 4/5 women, only one of which he's been intimate with during the actual book's timeline. She's the only one even remotely fleshed out, the last of the Van Helsing line. All the rest are cardboard cutouts. To make matters worse, the Van Helsing woman gets pregnant the one time they have sex, and it's an 8 week pregnancy.
The biggest problem with book is the continuity errors that are ever present. There's the simple "she put her back to the wall" and then immediately "took a backwards step". And then the more complex "MC and the Van Helsing woman are discussing how their plans to infiltrate the vampires is going" right in front of some of those same vampires who aren't in it with them. It really feels like the author didn't plot the book out, and so these inconsistencies just keep popping up all the time.
I see zero reason to continue this series.
The MC is a 19yr old intern at the CDC (Center for Disease Control), which sounds comical as you would expect those positions to go to maybe doctorate students, not H.S. graduates. He's with his boss, that he had sex with the night before the book starts, investigating cattle that have been drained of blood. From there, they make the epically dumb decision to go visit a dive bar, and are both bitten by vampires. Because the MC has a unique DNA makeup, he becomes what is known as a Daybreaker vampire. He can walk in the sunlight.
The harem consists of 4/5 women, only one of which he's been intimate with during the actual book's timeline. She's the only one even remotely fleshed out, the last of the Van Helsing line. All the rest are cardboard cutouts. To make matters worse, the Van Helsing woman gets pregnant the one time they have sex, and it's an 8 week pregnancy.
The biggest problem with book is the continuity errors that are ever present. There's the simple "she put her back to the wall" and then immediately "took a backwards step". And then the more complex "MC and the Van Helsing woman are discussing how their plans to infiltrate the vampires is going" right in front of some of those same vampires who aren't in it with them. It really feels like the author didn't plot the book out, and so these inconsistencies just keep popping up all the time.
I see zero reason to continue this series.
September 29, 2025
Writing quality is on the poorer side with awkward or cringe passages and dialog. The author is trying very hard to sound dark and mysterious but the whole thing is ruined by the MC who keeps whining about choosing and his boring issues. The book would've been better with a much stronger MC. Well, the writing also ruins it with lines like "I look forward to your unexpectedness". It's just kind of clumsy.
The women all arrive too fast, too soon, such that I can't tell them apart despite multiple reminders. The whole story moves fast but slow at the same time. I didn't like the plot very much though, which is spoiler territory so I won't explain. Dropped at about 80%.
The women all arrive too fast, too soon, such that I can't tell them apart despite multiple reminders. The whole story moves fast but slow at the same time. I didn't like the plot very much though, which is spoiler territory so I won't explain. Dropped at about 80%.
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