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387 reviews

TW -

Sexual violence, non consent, rape, murder, body horror, gore

 

Club Dead is the third book in the Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Murder Mystery series, this series is the inspiration for the HBO show, True Blood. The first 3rd of the book had a good amount of action and it was exciting and fun, the last part of the book was frustrating and triggering. 

In book three Sookie goes on a rescue mission to save Bill, she travels with with Erik, Bubba, and a new character Alcaide. There are so many little action scenes and the danger is high as always, so things were getting really exciting. The story starts to go downhill for me at exactly 73% of the way through the book. 

TW - Sexual violence, rape

After Sookie rescues Bill, she comes to the conclusion that he has been starved for 5 days (and tortured for longer) and she ends up getting locked in a car trunk with him. She can't get out and she thinks she's going to suffocate, at this point Bill is asleep because it's in the late afternoon and vamps sleep during the day. Once nightfall breaks, he wakes up and starts to FEAST on Sookie, even though she pleads with him not to. She even tells him there's some True Blood (synthetic human blood for vampires to dine on) in the trunk with them but he continues to drink from and drain her instead. Once he's had his fill, Bill literally rapes Sookie (and yes, the scene is on page.) The situation was handled so poorly and then it's not mentioned again. This left me trigger and angry with Mrs. Harris.

I also think at one point that TW - sexual non consent

While Sookie was drinking from Erik's arm (because she had been seriously injured) and while she was doing that, I'm very sure he was masturbating and that he came on her back without her consent. Sookie just kept saying that Erik was moaning and then she felt some wet stuff on her back. So either he was salivating or he came on her back w/o consent. I just don't understand what's up with this author and non consent.

There was no spice because all of the sexual scenes were sexually violent, non consensual, and/or dubious consent so I'm giving this -1 (NEGATIVE ONE) chilies out out 5 chilies -🌶️ worth of spice. 

I'm giving this two stars because it started off so well and then it ended with partner sexual violence and that made me angry. 
⭐️⭐️ 2/5 Stars

I read this for free on libbyapp.com

Living Dead in Dallas is the second book in the Sookie Stackhouse or The Southern Mystery Vampire Series, it was confusingly racist, homophobic, sexist, and slut shame-y. I understand this book was published in 2002, I just expected better from author Charlaine Harris. 

Wow, I don't like the way Harris writes about people of color in this book. I don't like it one bit. There were so many "WTF?!" moments where I had to cringe and pause the audiobook. Also, what is with Harris' love phrases with the word "co*n" in them, I know she's southern but I don't care. She needs to stop using those damn phrases. 

There's a bit of homophobia in the book too. Sookie's brother admits to be a homophobe and she yells at him for it, then she turns around and starts having homophobic thoughts about gay characters in the book. Girl, you are no better than your brother. 

The spice in here was okay, but what was lacking was the detail .I'm giving this 2.5 chilies out of 5 chilies 🌶️🌶️

With the causal racism, sexism, and homophobia, I can't give this book anything higher than 2 stars. Certain parts were interesting and that's why I'm giving it two stars instead of just one.  
⭐️⭐️ 2/5 Stars

I listened to this for free on the library app libbyapp.com

Kiss of Snow is the 10th book in the Psy/Changeling series by Nalini Singh. The two main characters of this novel are Sienna, a psy that has previously defected from the Psy/Net with her family and The Snow Dancer Pack leader, Hawk. I thought their relationship was really cute. 

In this book, the conflict with

Pure Psy and some of the psy from the Psy Council

ramps up. Hawk tries to accept Sienna into his life even though his original mate died really young and he knows that he won't be able to create a new mating bond with Sienna. We even get a view of Walker (a psy and one of Sienna's uncles) and Lara's (the Snow Dancer healer) budding relationship. 

There is an okay amount of action in this book, as well as several spicy scenes (from the perspective of two different couples), and there's also group scenes with several pack members discussing current situations and relations. We get a peak into Sasha's life at the tail end of her pregnancy and of course Lucas, the Dark River leopards alpha and her mate, is there with her. 

The spicy scenes were so good in this, and we got to experience spicy scenes with different couples so that definitely increased my interest. I'm giving this 4 chilies out out 5 chilies 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ worth of spice. 

Overall this was a good addition to the Psy/Changeling series but I'm going to knock a star and a half off because the action at the end was interesting and enthralling but it didn't last long. 
I'm giving this 3.5 stars out of 5.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3.5/5 Stars

I listened to this for free on the library app hoopladigital.com

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human by Kimberly Lemming is the third book in the Mead Mishaps series and it's just as fun as the first two books in the series. 

This book is about Cherry, the long lost sister of Cinnamon, Cinnamon is the the main character from the first book. Cherry was abducted 5 years prior by something that lives in the lake on the edge of her small town, so the story opens up with her stuck in a tower. Cherry gets rescued by Dante, a dragon shifter who happens to be friends with the main characters of book one and book two. 

Cherry has been kidnapped once already, she doesn't feel like she can trust Dante because he happens to know the entity that kidnapped Cherry the first time! Cherry thinks that there's no way that Dante will aid her escape so she uses some local mushrooms to drug Dante. Dante, in his drugged state, bites Cherry and a dragon bite means that they're now formally (or informally) mated to one another. They then set off on a journey to get Cherry home BUT Cherry refuses to tell Dante directly where she's from, because she's afraid that he's not friendly after all. 

This story was romantic, funny, gory, surprising, and just down right entertaining! If you like paranormal romance, fantasy romance, humor, and smut, then this is for you!

The whole beginning of the story was messy, with the drugging and the no consensual biting. At one point Dante puts his face in  Cherry's crotch without permission because he thinks that's how to woo a human woman. I had to knock half a star off for all the non consent and funny business shit.

Overall, I really enjoyed this novel! This is one of my favorite romance series. I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5 Stars

Dead Until Dark is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. The Sookie Stackhouse series is also the inspiration for the HBO show, True Blood. Dead Until Dark was a good introduction and first book in the series, I really enjoyed the journey. 

Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a small town in Louisiana and she's always wanted to meet a vampire because in this world vampires have been exposed and humans and vampires have been trying to co habituate together.  Sookie meets her first vampire in Bill, a (confederate) civil war era vampire. Bill is quite taken with Sookie and she is equally taken with him.

I don't like that Sookie's grandma was so excited

to have a confederate speak to her descendants club. Ya'll know they were fighting to keep slavery a thing, right?

I think this was one of the only things I really disliked about the novel.  

There's a murder mystery mingled in with some paranormal romance and I really enjoyed this book. It was gory, sexy, mysterious, and entertaining. I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5 because I had a lot of fun with this read. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5 Stars

I read this for free on Libbyapp.com

Parasyte Full Color Collection Volume 4 is a remaster of volume 4 of the original Parasyte comic by Hitoshi Iwaaki. This series is just so entertaining.

This volume has a lot to do with Kana (the girl from the last volume), more relationship issues, and politics! I don't want to spoil anything so I won't say anything else other than, I really love this manga series. The full color editions really add more depth to the story but the world building and character growth is already there. 

I really enjoyed, I'm giving it 5 stars out of 5. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Stars

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon is the first novel in the Ice Planet Barbarians romantic sci-fi series, and it's a book that I'm disappointed in. Trigger warnings in this book include; gang rape, dubious consent, and

pregnancy.

Within the first 7% of the this book the author writes in a minor character who's only purpose in this story is to be the victim of alien gang rape (that is an on page scene) and then she dies off page and is found frozen in this snow later. 

When Viktal (the sexy barbarian)  first meets Georgie, our protagonist, he instantly sticks his face in her privates and begins giving her oral without consent? The Georgie makes a joke about how she should be worried about being raped but instead she can't stop laughing at how ticklish everything is. Wow. Okay. 

I really had high hopes for this series, I thought I would like it but I couldn't even get 7% of the way through without wanting to DNF this shit. Well I finished it and it didn't get much better.

I absolutely hate pregnancy tropes so this explains why I didn't care for the ending very much.

It's unfortunate that I didn't like this book that much because Viktal and Georgie were cute together. 

I'm giving this 2 stars out of 5, as I had a hard time enjoying this.
⭐️⭐️ 2/5 Stars

Parasyte Full Color Collection Volume 3 is a remaster of volume 3 of the original Parasyte manga. The remastered colored edition adds so much depth to the story. This volume is probably the goriest of the fist three volumes, I couldn't look at most of the art for too long. 

Shinichi gets a new classmate in the form of a parasite, he ends up having some relationship issues with his girlfriend, and he's still dealing with

his mom's recent passing.

This was really entertaining and kept me on the edge of my seat, I'm going to give this 5 stars out of 5.
 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Stars

Parasyte Full Color Collection Volume 2 is a remaster of volume 2 of the original Parasyte comic. This volume was just as good as the first volume, in fact it was more exciting than the first volume. 

Parasyte is the story of an alien parasite, Migi, and the human he inhabits, Shinichi. In the first volume, parasites came down to earth in spores, a spore landed near Shinichi and a worm inside of the spore came out and attacked him but he happened to be awake. Instead of taking over Shinichi's brain like the alien intended, the alien Migi could only take over Shinichi's right arm. 

In this volume Shinichi's parents have gone on a vacation and he's been left at home, but his parents aren't exactly safe. MAJOR SPOILERS under this tag right here --->

I don't like how Shinichi's mom is attacked, killed, and taken over by a parasite. It's literally the trope of dying mothers or killed off mothers to empower and embolden the main character. I forgive this manga because it was written in the 80s and this type of situation was more common in fiction back then.

All in all I really loved this volume, despite that one thing I listed above that I didn't like.
I'm giving this 5 stars out of 5 stars


⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5 Stars

The Plot is Murder is the first book in the Mystery Bookshop series by V.M Burns, a series of cozy mystery books. This was my first experience with a cozy mystery story and though I like the concept of the main character owning a bookstore and solving a murder, the execution was not my favorite and the story was very boring. 

The main character is a widow and an aspiring bookstore owner, the story starts off with her moving into her new house/bookstore. The main character is a fan of cozy mysteries and she's also writing her own cozy mystery so throughout the book we're reading two stories. The current murder situation happening with the main character and the murder mystery she's writing. The murder mystery that the main character was writing was down right boring, I don't know if historical fiction is just not my cup of tea but I wanted to DNF this so badly because it was so boring. The main murder mystery was also boring and there was nothing keeping me interested in finding out who the murderer was. 

I didn't enjoy this read. I'm only happy that it wasn't as long as it could have been. I will not be continuing the series. 


⭐️⭐️ 2.5/5 Stars