a stalker monster romance that fell flat for me. the idea of being watched for weeks, an ancient vampire-like creature feeding on the people closest to me to gain intel through their blood / memories & bone-chilling, cold-to-the-touch sex?… none of that does it for me, but it may be your cup of tea. not my favorite from Adrian Blue, still my most-read author.
Liked the premise, couldn't get over the syntax of constant, short, choppy sentences. And the slowest of slow burns, only two very tame spice scenes around 80% through. Also a few noticeable continuity errors that stuck out. Didn't read like the authors normal stories.
Jenny's burned herself out after bowing to familial expectations and giving up on her own dreams and...things are rough. She's a pale echo of who she could be and she doesn't see things changing in her future.
Then she crossing paths with a cold creature on the way to her car after work one night and, well, things do change. Farkas is drawn to her. He tries to convince himself he's not because he's a cold nightmare made flesh, but he keeps coming back to observe her. He finds pretty gifts to give her. He thinks about her when he shouldn't be. He starts seeking out the people who can give him insight into who she is and...yeah, the guy's a little obsessed.
TO be fair, Jenny is amenable to his obsession. She doesn't know who or what he is, but she feels seen. She feels safe. And she slowly starts to come alive again. She starts to explore some of the spark that used to drive her. And her shadowy admirer is there for all of it.
What can I say except I like the creatures who find something that kindles them and the women who aren't afraid of the things that go bump in the night. *thumbs up*
I'm crying, I'm shook, I'm so pleasantly surprised seeing Korean in an Adrian Blue book. This was beautiful and heart wrenching and weird and god did it make me weep. I'm fully convinced that every Asian person, whether they have Asian parents or not, feels some level of this, whether it's between them and their parents or them and themselves. Seeing it on paper like this, through the snippets of memory, through photographs, through the eyes of her mentor, all of it wrecked me completely. Absolutely stunning, beautiful work.
The smut? Honestly the tamest thing I think I've ever seen from Adrian, and probably will ever see. Not a lot going on there but who fucking cares because it's not even about that. I came for some mindless smut and left with emotional damage and it was worth every word.
I hope that after the curtains close, that all the relationships work themselves out, that everyone can reconnect, apologies made and accepted, that the professor can see her student shine bright like she knew she would. I hope there's a happy ending for everyone and that Tammy does well and gets to leave the burger joint too.
This book was so good that I read it slow in the hope that it would last longer. It was like eating my very favorite ice cream on a scorching hot day.
I want to read it again and pretend that I never read it the first time, in the hope that the same feelings will reveal themselves. I enjoyed reading it so much that I don’t know what to do with myself now that it has ended.
I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.
Well this was certainly an interesting book. It did get kinda annoying with all the, "I need to leave. I don't leave." It also was a little slow, but it picks up & turns interesting. There's not much of an epilogue. It just leaves the future open, so maybe that's the point? If you like a little strange, this is for you. If not, maybe you pass on this one. I enjoyed it, but I enjoy the strange every now & then. On to the next.
The writing isn’t perfect. It’s clear that this was something written very early on and a few decades ago. I only wish there had been a few passes on it before publication, but damn. Even with all that I am sitting here bawling over how stinking beautiful this is. That ending!!!! 😭😭
Love, love, love. Five-stars because she stuck the landing!
2 1/2 Stars - Super slow burn which was fine, however there were continuity and grammatical errors and it just wasn't written as tightly as the last series. Also, the voice changed in the second half of the book and it stopped reading like an Adrian Blue story. I did like the premise and the Nosferatu (original) take on the undead.
It was okay but I don’t really understand the high reviews. It was really slow, hard to stay focused on, and kind of lack luster. Overall, it felt like I was waiting and it fell flat.
This was absolutely nothing that I expected and everything that I needed what a wonderful and unique story of loss mundane hopelessness and the redefining of light through darkness, bravo 👏