Karolina

Vincent is the cutest but I felt so bad for him most of the time 😭

Definition of 'Touch him and you die'

I like this story so much. Niko and Dymitr have a space in heart ♥️ I need a 3rd book now.

I was going to take a shot every time I read "he said softly" but I would've ended up in the ER. This needs some serious editing.

It navigates delusion and real life pretty nicely.

I really like the way this was presented to the reader.

Fucking perfect. The obsession, the spiriling, the horror, the Frankenstein vibes, their love... Goddam I enjoyed this so much.

"God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn't fall in love with him"

This is the only appropriate valentine for them.

Toxic and intriguing.

What I liked the most was that Dixon has some balls.

Kingston was so pushy at the beginning putting Cam in an uncomfortable situation knowing dam well he was in love.

Cam's mom is the worst. A teenager had to put her in her place.

It started great. I would say it's equal parts about self acceptance and romance. Being true to who you are and gaining a healthy sense of self is what I like the most. What I didn't like was the sharing: It was completely unnecessary to the story and painful to read. What was the purpose of having Mina's first experience being abuse? 😔

The jabs at christianity and colonialism were my favorite part. It reads like a Mexican telenovela with some spooky stuff once in a while.

There's some body horror here but this is more sad fantasy than anything else. You'll see Miri grieving the whole time: grieving her wife who has not yet passed, grieving her mother and then grieving her wife again. I did enjoy the little intricacies of their relationship, as well as the way this was written.

It intrigues me how fascinaded M. R. James was with the idea of having spirits/ghosts stuck to objects. Most of the stories are what we now considered dark academia.

My favorite ones were:

1. "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" because I could really feel the despair.

2. "The Ash-Tree" because I'll always love a witch taking revenge.

Situationship final boss. It was cute.

What is the purpose of our life if not the one we assign to it?

The book was okay. Even though I get the circumstances of her upbringing, Hazel was still very annoying.

I did like that she ended up living for helself and for what she wanted.

The taboo, the guilt... Amen 🙏🏼

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

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.”