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The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
4.0
tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

My one and only complaint about my favorite author of all time’s writing is that she writes very love-dumb/sex-dumb characters.

There is nothing in the world that could make me sleep with and get back together with somebody who went on a whole murder spree of people I love. I can’t take Jessica’s stupidity on that. That one aspect of the book ruined her character for me. 

And why why would they try to make Dawit into a “good person” in this book? He needs to become a villain again because if he isn’t killing up some people, then his sole purpose in the book is just to annoy me. He’s not interesting unless he’s the villain.


But I do all this complaining just to say that I still really enjoyed this book and Tananarive Due never disappoints🥰