trashyypandareads's reviews
244 reviews

Thank you Sourcebooks for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was excited to read this book because I had seen Kyle Prue on TikTok and found his content and the series of videos this book is based on funny. Unfortunately the book fell flat for me. There didn't seem to be anything that made the book unique from his videos. It all felt regurgitated and very simplistic.

Kyle is a cis white man with a predominantly female audience and while he does acknowledge the privilege he has, there were times where it felt like he was talking down to the reader and it just comes off as condescending.

Basically, this is a book that goes on the displays near the Barnes & N0ble checkout line that you flip through while waiting to pay. You chuckle at a few pages and then put it back down when it's your turn.

Full review to come

Kennedy Ryan can do no wrong. With every book she writes she has a way of writing exactly what my soul needs

you ever finish a book and just sit there dumbfounded at how the author can write something so amazing

This book was perfect blend of ghostly horror mixed with real world nightmares. An excellent commentary on the Black experience in a predominantly white neighborhood in the American South.

Thank you Farrar, Straus, & Giroux for the ARC!

This book is probably in my top 5 of 2024. This gothic horror takes the Dracula legend and flips it on its head by giving Lucy Westenra agency over her own story. It was so satisfying watching all the pieces of the puzzle come together. Not to mention some of the reveals that literally stopped me in my tracks because I did not see them coming but once they did they made so much sense. Absolutely incredible.

Thank you for the ARC, Del Ray Books!

Yesss give me all the hardened gods of death that meet a mortal woman and become soft!!!! Love a beautifully tragic ending too