Look, I love smut as much as the next b1tch but trust me when I tell you this is the last time I trust BookTok. 

The first two chapters from Dahlia’s perspective were mild interesting, world building and introduction of the conflict (although there was an inane amount of info dump in the exposition). Cut to Valtu and you get several LONG pages of him railing a random girl in a bleeding den before biting and sucking blood out of her gluteus maximus. Like bruv, what do you think you’re gonna get out of biting her there? Not even the inner thigh artery? 🤦🏾‍♀️ That aside, when will romance authors learn that smut is basically worthless when you don’t know the characters or are invested in them. All I learned was what a manwh0re Dracula is. WHICH BY THE WAY, DRACULA? Really? This isn’t a spoiler (it’s talked about in the very beginning) but Valtu is supposed to be Dracula but was only turned in the 1700s? Tell me you know nothing about Dracula without telling me. The man was from the 1400s 😭

ANYWAY, cut back to Dahlia and her chapter just returns to heavy exposition. Babe 53 pages in and I was too exhausted to care.