Status Updates From The Darkness Bites Back

THE AUTHORS JUST INSULTED PHYSICAL CARD CATALOGUES AND PRE-COMPUTER LIBRARIES, THIS IS WAR.

(If you're too dumb to manage the systems pre-computer, that is a YOU problem, not a library or organisational problem. Libraries, librarians, and users/borrowers, existed just fine for thousands of years before computers.)

Ok, we just went from lust to "I've never wanted to protect someone like this before" like 10 minutes into a first date. And since Tobias can't magically influence people afaik (only read their emotions), then this doesn't make sense & feels incredibly forced. Also LMAO at the authors' "he told the magic tragic tale I've ever heard" so they didn't have to write something emotional. What editor let this pass???

I don't mind the insta-lust at end of ch2 because it's a deliberate lure by Tobias, targeting Alex's preferences based on centuries of his chosen lovers. That's actually incredibly smart, go Tobias! But everything is still very Telling & that worries me about developing a proper romance.
... So far this novel feels like a first draft, waiting for authors to come back & edit in the Showing, subtext, & emotions.

(Not my palette-cleanser between ML Wangs', btw. Juggling arcs with physical books.)
A bit Telling to start, but I'm here for the revenge goal of ruining someone's life "right fucking back". I like that Tobias doesn't let his self-loathing (UGH, LOUIS! so cliche) get in the way of his plan. I don't know yet if I care for Alexander, the cliche disappointing-son-who'd-rather-whore-about - or at least from his intro.

Me lo está dando TODO

Flirty vampires at Oxford University. Yes please.