When I requested this book, I was hoping for a short, strange, gothic read that was sexy in a kind of gross way (I mean bloody and murdery). I was not at all disappointed by what I got from this. There are going to be a lot of comparisons of this book to a Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson (one of my favorite books), and I do think that the two have a lot of similarities, but with our main character having centuries more personal agency under her belt, and her conquests not being solely chosen by a man, which was something that I liked. 

Importantly,  neither of the characters are really selfless people, and I really enjoyed that neither of them were demeaned by the narrative for it, although they’re not necessarily bad people for it either (debatably)