This was a good read. Probably should've taken more time to read it, but it was really good. I love the art style and how it isn't afraid to tackle serious topics like toxic relationships (including how they can exclude those you care deeply about, the emotional manipulation, etc.), abortion, being queer, etc.

I thought, since it being Pride month and all, I should read a book that features LGBT+ characters. (Side note: I have already done that, as I now just remember).

I (like a lot of people) first heard of Carmilla through the web series on youtube. Then, I read the original tale by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. After a while, I found this book.

The original tales main theme is about how women's sexuality is bad and dangerous, warding against both it and vampires. Carmilla & Laura is from Laura's perspective, as in the original, and the same time period. It puts the WLW subtext of the original into plain text, while giving it a happy ending.

If you want to read a lesbian period piece, this is it. It's a quick read, and starts pretty slow, but ramps up about a third of the way through. It's cool to see S. D. Simper take the original story and make it her own. It reads closely enough to the original that it's like it's written the year the original was published. I know she has written other WLW novels, and will add them to my collection when I can.

As a last note: totally pictured Carmilla's mother as Lady Dimestrescu from Resident Evil Village. Interesting, huh?

Good book.

I liked this. I liked how each poem had an explanation beforehand so you could understand what was actually going on.

In complete transparency, I didn't read every single poem, so I'm letting the pages I didn't read reflect the books I dropped/read partially, but didn't finish throughout this past couple of months.

Just to let you know, I am reading the omnibus edition, but for the sake of reviewing, I will be listing them as their separate novels.

I know the basics of the movie, and nothing really past that. From what I know, the movie is nothing like the book.

It's really hard to describe this book. A lot of the time, I had no clue what was really happening. It's purposefully written that way. This book is just really hard to describe. It's easier to read it than explain it I think.

I couldn't put this book down. It's one of those where the less you know, the better it is going in. All I knew is it was about a girl who lived in some walls. That's pretty much all you need to know going into this.