kirstiereads's reviews
985 reviews

I had such a fun time with this. This reignited my want for vampire reads. I feel like it was a slow mystery with a fast feeling ending and the reveal didn’t blow my mind, but I loved this! I could see myself rereading it in spooky months. 👏🏻

This wasn’t a bad read, but it was sooo drawn out and slow and I feel like nothing much happened at all. There was some brief mentioning of race and I feel it wasn’t necessarily called for or handled too well. That’s just my personal opinion. The best part—the comic book. I thought this was only a graphic novel, but it’s a novel with bits of a comic book thrown in throughout the novel. Like 2-3 pages tossed in at a time. So I was bummed about that, but I do still like that—a comic book inside a book. It’s just the overall story didn’t grab my attention. Basically nothing happens until halfway through. I wanted to DNF, but just figured I’d finish it cause it was short and I liked the comic book. I hoped the supernatural aspect would pick up more towards the end. It did I guess, but not enough to spark my interest. 🥱 

Overall, a very slow moving supernatural book. One I didn’t hate, but one I wouldn’t recommend. Sorry 🙈 I wouldn’t count out Cherie Priest though. I may try another book of hers.

This was a book I got from a book box subscription and never knew if I was going to want to read. When finally going through unread books to get rid of because I no longer had interest in ever reading them, I posted this book on my Instagram to have my friends vote on if I should just get rid of it or try reading it. Results were to read it. Surprisingly I didn’t DNF it, but I didn’t love it either. I wasn’t expecting to love it, but I sure did start getting my hopes high with the eerie scenes of these things in the woods. 

Basically, I think it started off good. Then the middle, I felt like I was sluggishly forcing myself but still had hope. I didn’t like the characters or the cute moments or the nicknames. Just wasn’t my thing. And the ending just wasn’t enough, for me, to save the book. The writing for the creepy bits is what pains me to rate this 2/5, but it’s how I feel. I can see why people would enjoy this especially if you enjoy fairytale like books. Emphasis on some Beauty and the Beast connections.

There’s a lot going on in this 290 pages graphic novel. I really enjoyed it and especially loved the mystery and Maddie! ❤️ The friendships are sweet and the tales of the island had me hooked. Sort of felt the beginning was a bit of a drag, but a minor issue.