Karolina

This was way better than the first one.

A hundred characters are introduced just in the first few pages 🫪 and they're all awful. Completely awful and idiotic.

Also, there's no possible redemption for people drugging others.

This was messily written.

Protagonist was so unhinged, hilarious, annoying, delulu, and sad all at the same time.

Author made a great job cause she almost made me feel sorry for a narcissist.

Jaeyoung's curiosity mirrored mine.

"I didn't know what an office was but it sounded treacherous" 😂

Interesting premise, never read anything similar in the sense of body swapping via brujería. It has a 'horror' tag but I would say it's just romance: a lady rescuing a lady in distress ❤️

Predating on an obsessed-prone person, what could go wrong?

This was... an experience.

I could kiss Johanna’s brain, truly. She managed to blend tenderness and the macabre beautifully and in just the perfect amount of each. This is the second book of hers I read and I can confidently say that the way she writes speaks to my soul.

Spoilers from this point on, so please be aware:

I grew up catholic so the fascination religious people have with corpses has always intrigued me and I was glad the author made it a part of this book.

The fact that only Satan heard and responded to Elsebeth pleas and that even after all the suffering and death Ursula still didn’t waver in her belief just sums up how pointless any religious belief ends up being. You’re just reinforcing your own biases.

I did enjoy the sorority between the female characters, within what was possible in such dire setting.

Also, Otto’s first encounter with the necromancer was incredibly chilling and gave me goosebumps.

Aw this was so sweet, lighthearted and fun.

The double meaning of spoiled, 😙👌

The school acting as a 'closet' and Emily and Evelyn finally escaping 😙👌

The group as whole was so likeable.

All in all a good gothic story.

It's basically a copycat of God of Fury but I ate it up

It reminded me of C. S. Poe's Memento Mori series but with wolves.

It was cute 🩷

Don't know which one was first but this has a very similar plot to The Favor by Suzanne Wright.

It was alright, but I can't with describing her parts as "her folds" 🤢

I really wanted to like this book. I've heard so many wonderful things about it, but it just didn't click with me.

It made the transition from adolescence to adulthood look like waking up from a fairy tale, which I agree. However, the structure and prose was boring and I couldn't grasp the "grandiosity" of Meaulnes. Everything was so boring that Meaulnes looked exciting by default.

A fever dream in purgatory. I really like

Mexicans' familiarity with death.

Their earlier conversations were pretty moronic tbh.

This is a good birth control advertisement 😅

Trauma galore. It gives The Babadook vibes.

Apparently I'm one of the few that actually bought this book and didn't receive it as an ARC 😅

I liked the prose but this feels so much like just a step into another book.

Cassius and Muninn's relationship was a bit rushed at the end. It felt like they hated each other for like 80% of the book and then zas! They want each other.

I did appreciate the representation.

Atmosphere builds up slowly but nicely.

I could relate to the feminine ambivalence of fearing motherhood but also fearing not being a mother.

"The horror of giving birth can't be captured" YES!

Nice

Ancient methods of keeping women out of power still being employed today, what a shock 😒

I wanna raise my voice even more now.

On the positive: ▪️ It blends fantasy and Gothic elements very well. The castle is its own entity. ▪️ It also questions tradition and rituals.

On the negative: ▪️ Too fkn dense. It takes some time to get the pace of it. ▪️ It felt like it would never end. It drags.

Just two sisters bonding 🥰

Will was the best part of this. Across the country and still pining over a married man you haven't seen in two years? 🚩🚩

This is way too similar to Catching Fireflies.