Allyn R.’s Reviews > Empire of the Vampire > Status Update

this chapter organization is kind of bad lmao. also, once again, j kristoff needs to stop being weird about women

WHY DO ALL OF THE QUEER CHARACTERS HAVE THEIR QUEERNESS INTRODUCED VIA BEING CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SEX AGHHHHHHAKSDJFLSDAJKLASDJFSL;DFJ

oh my GOD the name of gabriel's type of vampire is so edgy too. jesus christ.

thing i really hate: "oh look at how the protagonist has messed things up for other people by going off and doing his own thing! isn't he better than all these stuffy people who have a problem with that!"

also i love mixing up gendered titles 'n all like a woman using masc titles but i do have some bones to pick with j kristoff writing the only character who does that so far (lady vampire calling herself a 'prince of forever') to be a literally inhuman hyper-evil vampire. eugh.

i'm sorry but the really corny 'thee/thou/shalt' type language the really old vampires speak in is just Not doing it with me. it's not nearly as intimidating or evocative as i think it's meant to be

ALSO this book is just unbearably painfully edgy and shallow. like as a lover of d&d clerics i enjoy a good struggle with faith but so far it seems like that stuff only exists in this book so it can fail at the most inopportune moment and gabriel can wangst poetic about how god sucks and he's So Cool And Jaded for not believing. it's highly grating.