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I am officially moving this onto the "I'll finish it eventually" shelf. What a shame, I really wanted to love it!

Something about this book is very boring to me!
I think because all the narration comes from regular people and never Dracula. And because I know who/what Dracula is, I am always one step ahead of them!

Like when you watch a scary movie and you think "don't go into the basement!", but less fun because they keep writing off dracula's behavior. They aren't even scared yet!

I will give it 50 more pages to hook me.

I QUIT THIS BOOK A LONG TIME AGO AND I'M GLAD

I QUIT THIS BOOK A LONG TIME AGO AND I'M GLAD

Why do the descriptions of the characters coded as Black (aka with fake strange “Black names”) have to be so racist? Multipleeeee anti-black descriptions of the way their hair looks and smells???? Was it necessary?

Honestly that made me want to stop reading right then and there. I am giving it one more chapter. We’ll see…

Only 20 pages in but, whew. I need to do some soul searching. I might stay up all night reading this.

If I had known this was a book about Colorism from the perspective of the colorists I wouldn’t have bought it. But I did so here we are. I plan to finish it but I really don’t know if I will. So far it’s genuinely unpleasant to read this rhetoric.

The word “blueblack” appears on the very FIRST page and I let out a deep negro spiritual sigh at the fact that I will indeed, never know peace.