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lsparrow's review against another edition
4.0
cotton candy guilty pleasure - definitely not read for the plot or the writing..
zefrien's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
trinielf's review against another edition
4.0
CW: character with breast cancer, description of character viewing mastectomies online, fire play (scene where one vampire plays with fire on anther vamps back), descriptions of violent vampire attacks, descriptions of a vampire being tortured
This is my first book by Fiona Zedde and won’t be my last. Our MC, Kylie is a black Jamaican, virgin vampire, struggling with so much. What she was made into, her desires, her blood lust, her sexuality. The tenuous relationship with her mother, who she sees as having abandoned her for her wife.
Kylie is uneasy in her vampire skin. This is a recurring theme throughout. But even so she knows she has to do what she needs to, i.e feeding on humans. Kylie becomes drawn to Olivia, a human who is dying of breast cancer. She is so enthralled with Olivia and is a full voyeur, watching Olivia, sleeping in her home unknown to Olivia until she gives in to her need to be close to the human and slips into her bed. Causing Olivia to discover her there.
Not only does she spy on Olivia having some self-love time, she also watches her vamp clan members getting it on. Even takes in these human women going at it. While she is wary of sex, she is obviously intrigued by it.
Olivia also seems intrigued by Kylie, more so that being afraid. (We learn more on this later in the book and i don't want to spoil it) Not even when she witnessed Kylie basically tearing some dudes apart. Kylie is more torn up about it than Olivia. Of course O is shocked but she is drawn to Kylie too.
The entire book is written from Kylie’s POV and seeing Olivia through her eyes was quite beautiful Watching Kylie fight her attraction was so compelling. Here we have a vampire who is far stronger than this human and yet so vulnerable.
Every interaction she had with Olivia was gorgeously rendered on the page.
The secondary vampire characters, her clan members were all so captivating. We get bits of pieces of their stories. Every time Kylie returned to the clan house I wanted to know more about each vampire. They were all so different. I was especially intrigued by the notion that the vamps liked to sleep together, not talking sexually here, but just spooned up against each other, building that familial connection I guess. Of all the clan members, Rufus intrigued me the most. Would love to get a story our book about his rock star self ;)
Another great moment: Kylie basking in her power when she and Olivia finally have sex. Not because she’s a vamp and O’s a human but she feels powerful because of the pleasure can she pull out of Olivia.
As mentioned before we never get a POV from Olivia, only seeing her via Kylie’s eyes but we do get to see that while Olivia appears to be fine, she’s not. There are moments where we see her pain: when her hair sheds after towel drying she snaps at Kylie for making light of it by saying it’s just hair, it’ll grow back. There’s also tension between them when Olivia not only asks Kylie if she would turn her, at one point, but also asks if she would kill her. Kylie refuses on both counts. The idea of either action is abhorrent to her.
I already knew what would happen in this regard but everything leading up to it was wow! Did not expect that! Their relationship just gets a million times more intense and complicated.
I will simply say that Olivia and Kylie together were volatile and things wrapped up quite well for me.
Would highly recommend this one!
This is my first book by Fiona Zedde and won’t be my last. Our MC, Kylie is a black Jamaican, virgin vampire, struggling with so much. What she was made into, her desires, her blood lust, her sexuality. The tenuous relationship with her mother, who she sees as having abandoned her for her wife.
Kylie is uneasy in her vampire skin. This is a recurring theme throughout. But even so she knows she has to do what she needs to, i.e feeding on humans. Kylie becomes drawn to Olivia, a human who is dying of breast cancer. She is so enthralled with Olivia and is a full voyeur, watching Olivia, sleeping in her home unknown to Olivia until she gives in to her need to be close to the human and slips into her bed. Causing Olivia to discover her there.
Not only does she spy on Olivia having some self-love time, she also watches her vamp clan members getting it on. Even takes in these human women going at it. While she is wary of sex, she is obviously intrigued by it.
Olivia also seems intrigued by Kylie, more so that being afraid. (We learn more on this later in the book and i don't want to spoil it) Not even when she witnessed Kylie basically tearing some dudes apart. Kylie is more torn up about it than Olivia. Of course O is shocked but she is drawn to Kylie too.
The entire book is written from Kylie’s POV and seeing Olivia through her eyes was quite beautiful Watching Kylie fight her attraction was so compelling. Here we have a vampire who is far stronger than this human and yet so vulnerable.
Every interaction she had with Olivia was gorgeously rendered on the page.
The secondary vampire characters, her clan members were all so captivating. We get bits of pieces of their stories. Every time Kylie returned to the clan house I wanted to know more about each vampire. They were all so different. I was especially intrigued by the notion that the vamps liked to sleep together, not talking sexually here, but just spooned up against each other, building that familial connection I guess. Of all the clan members, Rufus intrigued me the most. Would love to get a story our book about his rock star self ;)
Another great moment: Kylie basking in her power when she and Olivia finally have sex. Not because she’s a vamp and O’s a human but she feels powerful because of the pleasure can she pull out of Olivia.
As mentioned before we never get a POV from Olivia, only seeing her via Kylie’s eyes but we do get to see that while Olivia appears to be fine, she’s not. There are moments where we see her pain: when her hair sheds after towel drying she snaps at Kylie for making light of it by saying it’s just hair, it’ll grow back. There’s also tension between them when Olivia not only asks Kylie if she would turn her, at one point, but also asks if she would kill her. Kylie refuses on both counts. The idea of either action is abhorrent to her.
I already knew what would happen in this regard but everything leading up to it was wow! Did not expect that! Their relationship just gets a million times more intense and complicated.
I will simply say that Olivia and Kylie together were volatile and things wrapped up quite well for me.
Would highly recommend this one!
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