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Lenore’s want for more and the suppression of that hunger to be the perfect wife or woman is something extremely relatable and reading as she finds more of Henry’s dark side and manipulative behavior as he ruins Lenore’s life being the primary factor to push her closer off the edge of perfection and into her most desperate desires has been amazing to read, and Carmilla there to support her? Perfection

Love the slow burn of the book, the relationship between Lenore and Carmilla is a slow drawl that keeps pulling you in. The way you can see Lenore desperately want out of the life built for her and yet she is so used to it she questions if she should abandon Henry and her duties to live beautifully or stick to what she has always known. I feel as if her desire to be loved completely will lead her down a darker path

I am in love with the dark gothic aesthetic of the book and how the setting in the moors reminds me so much of Wuthering Heights. Lenore represents what a lot of women went through during the early 1900s and reading the expectations of this woman while she riddles herself with anxiety and insecurity of her reputation truly has me rooting that Carmilla will help her let go as she slowly unravels Lenore more🕷️