There are some aspects of this that I think are really clever and subversive of the genre, though it actually may not benefit from them due to the blurb text and title, which set up genre expectations it doesn’t really deliver on, and isn’t meant to.

For instance, the vampire being far more firmly rooted in privilege and the way in which marginalized communities are fall prey to bad actors, is very well done. Yet it also makes the pacing and story beats hit a lot less hard than straight up genre fiction. It also shifts loss of agency to more uncomfortable subjects, which I think is it’s purpose, but again: the reader isn’t really clued into this so there’s some dissonance.

Overall, for me, it’s a mixed bag that was alright. The subversions are clever enough that I got some enjoyment out of it despite the feeling it was dragging quite a bit at parts.