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Still trying to piece together what is the whole deal with Sila’s dad or whatever. It has given us much to work with.

Very nice twist on concept of vampires somehow? At least from the little we know so far, but I really like.

Only now has it become clear to me this takes place in the 1890s… nothing about it gave that impression the first 150 pages or so. And now that it’s been explicitly mentioned, even the speech of the characters have changed. It feels as if the author made the decision suddenly with it revising the beginning.

“Oh, my dearest Alina…I want to do such terrible, sickening things to you. I hope you know that.”

Oh this book is actually quite hot… and none of that cringe-ness I see often from ‘darker’ romance.

“The only problem is that the snake could never anticipate that the mongoose has a resistance to her unforgiving bite, and has developed a taste for his rival’s flesh.”

I love there is a dual POV. Most of the time I do not enjoy them but this one is very entertaining