Karolina

Aw I liked them so much. Nate and Xavi too.

The taboo, the guilt... Amen 🙏🏼

It reads like a Mexican telenovela lol. I'm not surprised of how horrible religious people have been since forever. Even though, the author is aiming this towards the hipocrisy of the Catholic Church I'm going to include most - if not all churches on the sin of being hipocrites. I was not expecting the amount of sexual violence in a 1700s text but here you go. And yeah, the Monk was a total POS and I'm siding with the Devil here.

Vampires and revenge? Hell yeah! Humanity in monsters and monstrosity in humans.

It felt like the obsession came out of nowhere but it was okay, entertaining.

This was exquisite. The horror, the religious trauma, human beings inherent cruelty... An absolute gem!

BTW the confessional booth scene had me kicking my feet.

OK so this was not for me. I went into to expecting scary stuff but it's more of a coming of age story but it felt... Corny. Fear of aging was relatable though.

I was getting annoyed at Kerian but he redeemed himself. It ended up being all cute. 

I love this book so much. I love how nature is described, how we can feel the monster's misery and desolation, as well as all the existential questions it poses.
 I love how ambivalent one feels towards creator and creation: I like Victor's hunger for knowledge and at the same I emphatize with the monster. You don't bring life into this world to abandon it. 
 The monster's pleas also made me think of humans pleading to God(s) that left us to mend for ourselves. So incredibly sad yet so wonderful this book is. 

“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” 

I didn't know this was horror. I mean, there's the sorority between women which is lovely but the rest was pure horror: the feet binding, the suffering of being born a woman, how horrible and dangerous giving birth is, accommodating to men's needs over your own health. Most of it was horrible and I feel exhausted just from reading it. 

Aw this was really sweet. 

I get why there are so many mixed reviews with this one. It is darkly humorous and satirical and creepy and some people just don't fly with that, but what I don't get is people complaining about some of the gruesome stuff that happens in it... I mean you picked a horror book, did you expect rainbows?
 Anyway, I did liked it and I'm always up for women losing it. 

Quite forgettable 😔 characters weren't it for me 

I don't know what this says about me, but I felt more satisfaction than horror. 
 Moral of the story: Be kind to all creatures and don't be a dick. 

It is fucked up and sweet (?) at the same time. I hated how women are portrayed here. 

Using lycantrophy as a metaphor for female rage and trauma is such a creative idea. I wouldn't categorize this as horror though. On the contrary, I was cackling at times. 

Aw Call & Ryan are the cutest 💕 I loved this so much. It was hilarious, romantic, unserious, morbid, and cute at the same time. 

A bit repetitive. It does contain some useful and sensible pieces of advice. 

Brandon and Niko really grow on you. I just needed this after reading some other depressing stuff. I was cackling during Levi's chapter 😂 

Heart wrenching and brutal in its honesty. Human beings are capable of such cruelty... And this just reminded me of how much disdain I feel for most politicians. Ugh. 

Nom nom nom this was delicious. 

I never DNF but I almost did with this one because it was so fucking depressing at the beginning. 
 Later on I did enjoy the protagonist's stream of thought and her choices felt valid. 
 Predictable plot though. You know what's going to happen but you can still enjoy the journey. 

What a pleasant surprise this book was. It portrays the neurodivergent experience, the female experience, the human experience. We're here just trying to figure out what to do. Wonderfully written. 

Such an interesting and creative premise! On the surface, this is just plain grief and pain but to use ghosts to convey other messages is fascinating. 
 It left me with a feeling of not wanting to waste the little time we have mourning for what it's lost. Moving on is also an act of love. 
 “Because I'm alive!” 

They were actually a cute couple, quite less toxic than most in Alessandra's books