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The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores
Did not finish book. Stopped at 63%.
Thank you Wednesday books for an arc in exchange for an l review.
Sadly dnf at 60% and I very rarely do dnf. This book has a great premise and starts off pretty well! But the author tends to reiterate information and doesn’t trust the reader to retain info about the story. It’s feels like every 10-15 pages I was told the same information again. On top of that there were a few aspects that felt on the verge of antesemetic, in a blood libel way. Again this is my opinion as a Jewish person. I say this because the mom 1 turned her child in to a vampire (blood) 2 siphons magic off her vampire daughter (magic). So to me this is teetering into the realm of blood libel. I don’t think the author did this maliciously or on purpose, but it was just something that bugged me and made me want to stop reading.
As well as the two main characters read very similar. It was a bit hard to keep them separate while reading. I had to go back to the start of the chapters sometimes to figure out which pov I was reading at points.
I hope Flores next is a bit better.
Cw
Blood
Bullying
Fighting
Earl
Sadly dnf at 60% and I very rarely do dnf. This book has a great premise and starts off pretty well! But the author tends to reiterate information and doesn’t trust the reader to retain info about the story. It’s feels like every 10-15 pages I was told the same information again. On top of that there were a few aspects that felt on the verge of antesemetic, in a blood libel way. Again this is my opinion as a Jewish person. I say this because the mom 1 turned her child in to a vampire (blood) 2 siphons magic off her vampire daughter (magic). So to me this is teetering into the realm of blood libel. I don’t think the author did this maliciously or on purpose, but it was just something that bugged me and made me want to stop reading.
As well as the two main characters read very similar. It was a bit hard to keep them separate while reading. I had to go back to the start of the chapters sometimes to figure out which pov I was reading at points.
I hope Flores next is a bit better.
Cw
Blood
Bullying
Fighting
Earl