Thank you to Orbit books for the ARC.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS ONE.

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I finally finished this and it was not what I was expecting. This weird combination of curses, demons, vampires, historical, movie stars, romance, and more. I wanted it to all work together and it just…didn’t.

For the initial 40-50% I felt pretty invested. I was rolling with the slow nature and curious how things were going to start connecting. And when they did is when this book lost me. It gave me the sense of things being added to solve the plot that’s been created rather than a natural movement through the story. The random romance did not fit and for a horror book I never once found myself creeped out.

Neither of the main characters were remarkably memorable. Everything was okay. That’s the best way I could describe it unfortunately. The ending worked out well enough (though I still have some questions??). This was my first book by the author and I was really excited for it and now I’m honestly not sure what to think.

Overall audience notes:
- Horror/Historical/Paranormal
- Language: a little strong
- Romance: closed door
- Violence: moderate
- Trigger/Content Warnings: substance abuse, mentions of suicide, loss of a parent, multiple deaths