cielosiluminado's Reviews (443)

Power Play

Chelsea Curto

3.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

liam and piper were so sweet. grumpy/sunshine characters will always be my favorites. i also absolutely adored his cat called “pico de gato” that only understands spanish.

as much as i enjoyed the characters and plot, i still felt misled because they don’t get married until like 51% into the book but it’s marketed as a “marriage of convenience”…? idk.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

this was interesting. it wasn’t as vampire-y as i initially thought. the biggest takeaway for me was the common belief that unabashedly sexual women were considered more frightening than literal vampires in victorian england. that is insane to me. also, before reading this i didn’t realize that this was basically western christian propaganda that paints eastern customs and superstitions as evil. classic 1890s literature.

The Davenports

Krystal Marquis

2.0

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

four fmc povs, four couples, four break ups. massive societal and familial expectations.

i think there’s a lot of potential for this series.

The Striker

Ana Huang

1.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i mourn for the trees that were cut down and used to make the paper on which this boring excuse of a story was printed on and binded together to make this book. such a waste.

vincent and asher’s rivals-to-bromance had more chemistry than the bore than was asher’s relationship with scarlett. such lackluster characters.

These Violent Delights

Micah Nemerever

4.5

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“I kill them because they’re beautiful, and it’s the only way I can keep them.”

this was not a “be gay, do crime” sort of book. this was a story of two gay teenagers... in an obsessive relationship... love... toxic... delusional... murder... it was all perfectly and frustratingly told from the pov of an unreliable, insane narrator. it was a lot. it was phenomenal.

at times i was confused because of the complicated writing and tangents (hence the rating), but my confusion made me love the story even more, if that makes sense? i can see myself coming back to this and discovering stuff i missed the first time.

i knew paul and julian were fucked the moment paul confessed he killed beautiful things to keep them forever and julian stared at him with apprehension. i was just delulu (like them) and believed it would all work out...