francesmthompson's Reviews (976)

As other reviewers have said, I think this book has been mis-marketed slightly as a gay thriller because it doesn't really follow "thriller norms" in terms of plot and pacing. But that's not say it doesn't have suspense or intrigue and certainly for the first half of the book there is a definite sense of what the heck is going to happen here? And when "it" does happen, it is indeed suitably horrifying and disturbing. I also really liked that the two main protagonists were queer men in their seventies. I'm here for more books with elder queers getting up to all sorts.

 3.5. I requested this book on Netgalley because I wanted sexyqueerchaos on a cruise ship and I guess I got queer chaos on a cruise ship, I just didn't personally find it very sexy. My first slight disappointment was when I discovered the main characters - a married couple of vampires - weren't old school blood thirsty vampires but emotional vampires, meaning they feed on people's emotions. This was a cool twist and definitely made the story less messy but apparently I have a blood k1nk because I missed some good old neck biting and blood guzzling. I really enjoyed the plot and variety of.characters and how much they bent gender and defied binaries and were all chaotic bisexuals, but I didn't find the smut very smutty. I can't put my finger on how, but it was like it wasn't written to titillate and so it very much did not, and that was another disappointment. The cover, however, swoooooon. 

TERFY AF

A complete queertastic charade of a book and I loved every second. We need more queer books centering queerplatonic relationships.