I’m conflicted. I need to stew on this for a bit. 3 stars for now.

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Update: I think I'm staying with 3 stars. Realistically this would probably be 3.5/5 stars, but we all know Goodreads isn't adding a half star option, so 3 it is to stay consistent across platforms.

Maybe my expectations were too high? I'm not really sure. I found this book to be slow and honestly, I was a bit bored. I didn't truly start to get gripped by the story until around maybe 70%.

The writing was beautiful and I loved the atmosphere. I struggled though with the characters. I didn't think they were incredibly developed. Lucy, I thought was done well. But the other characters I didn't feel as connected to until towards the very end.

The story was so very slow. I was zoned in at the beginning and then maybe around 30%, I started to lose some focus and didn't zone back in strongly until 70%. Personally, I think this story would've benefited from being condensed. I had such high hopes with this being a sapphic vampire novel but I felt a bit disappointed in this regard too.

I think if the pacing was more even, I would've loved this a lot more. Please don't take this as a bad review though because I still really enjoyed this, but I've definitely read better sapphic vampire stories.