***Content warnings for blood letting, gore, murder, death of a parent and a sibling, torture, mentions of sexual, physical and child abuse.*** Please note this review mentions the author Poppy Z.Brite who now lives as Billy Martin and no longer writes under that pen name. Silvia Moreno-Garcia. That should just be the review. Her range…
Category: the vampire tbr
Review: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
Okay so classics very rarely need to be reviewed, especially in the style I do mine where it’s focused on the elements that did and didn’t work for me. However, this is also my blog I made for random book chats so here we are! My first time reviewing a Classic! In an isolated castle…
Review: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
****Trigger warnings for rape, domestic abuse, gaslighting, racism, gore, child abuse, classism, animal injuries and death of a parent.**** So it’s been a while since I visited the vampire TBR! Bit of background, I’m not someone who really does TBRs, in case you’re new here. I don’t know how many books I own and haven’t…
Review: A Dowry of Blood by S.T Gibson
****Trigger warnings: Domestic abuse (both physical and psychological), blood, gore, famine, war, plague, sadomasochism, blood letting, murder, self harm, depression and drug/alcohol use**** I recently discussed on the blog how I have been actively going back to vampire books. So when I heard about this book from Cristina Orlando’s fantastic list of the SFF for…
Review: Fledgling by Octavia E.Butler
***Trigger warnings for racism, physical assault, death of a parent, sex with a minor, blood drinking and violence off page*** It’s 2021 now and the plague times are wearing on. I, a wee book obsessive, am forever on the look out for the next great vampire novel. If you pop into my blog sometimes, you…
Review: Sabella by Tanith Lee
*****Trigger warnings for rape, discussions of sexual assault and blood letting***** So here I am again with a vampire book! I recently made a post about some vampire books I wanted to read and you were all wonderful in feedback for it. I also talked about how vampires are kind of my go to comfort…
A Vampire TBR
I love vampires. I always have and likely will always gravitate towards them. I don’t know what it is. It started with vampire movies in my teens, reading all the books I could find from Anne Rice to Point Horror and right into my (like many folks) Twilight phase in my mid teens. Then we…
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