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I’m gonna give it one more chapter cause it has a promising premise - southern gothic, witches, vampires, a creepy mansion. But if the rest of the book is written in the same manner, I do think I’m going to have to abandon it.
— Aug 04, 2026 05:58PM
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Some of the most cringeworthy dialogue and inner monologue - the “dragon in her stomach”, the swinging from the use of unnecessarily complicated words to lines that made me physically cringe. It was like the author had sat flipping through a thesaurus and went “yep, that one’ll do.”
And I’ve read some books with not brilliant writing but an engaging main character and plot, and this isn’t doing it.
— Aug 04, 2026 05:57PM
And I’ve read some books with not brilliant writing but an engaging main character and plot, and this isn’t doing it.
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The intro reminded me of the start of twilight - “I’d never given much thought to how I would die”, etc, etc.
Started out promising, but the whiplash from her begging for work and then feeling her mother burn to death, to her being sat in a restaurant ogling men like they were in a fish market was intense.
— Aug 04, 2026 05:55PM
Started out promising, but the whiplash from her begging for work and then feeling her mother burn to death, to her being sat in a restaurant ogling men like they were in a fish market was intense.