csaphira's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Pregnancy, Blood, Sexual content, and Cursing
whitneyonline's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Blood, Gore, Pregnancy, and Vomit
sleepylit's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Violence
Moderate: Self harm, Kidnapping, Slavery, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Colonisation, Vomit, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Abortion and Death of parent
mondays's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Violence, Murder, and Cursing
Minor: Child abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Murder
pageafter_paige's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, and Death of parent
blackcatreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Writing: 4/10
Plot: 5/10
Characters: 7/10
World-Building: 5/10
I want to start this review by saying that, while is book is objectively not good, I loved it anyway. I was hooked from the very beginning, and I just wanted to keep reading.
The writing itself is not great. There are tons of grammatical and spelling errors that would take me out of the story. Some of the lines of the characters are so cringe I would get secondhand embarrassment.
I will say the plot is minimal at best. If you took out the spice and left only the plot, the book would maybe be 100 pages. I don't think it was a well rounded plot either. The whole plot centered around Mina getting pregnant to declare herself her father's heir and then kill him, but I felt like her father was killed too easily. It just felt like an anti-climactic ending.
I can't say I loved all the characters. I felt like Mina was a bit annoying and was constantly a damsel in distress. There were hints of times where she would show a backbone but then she would immediately revert back to damsel in distress when a man was around. I did love Wolf, Rylan, and Malachi. I thought they were such fun characters but we did only get surface level views of them.
This is a semi-low fantasy, but I don't feel like the world was very developed. I don't understand how the magic system works at all. I still am not sure how you get a bloodline vampire. I feel like none of that is explained. Also, out of the whole world, why is the compound in Montana? And how was Mina being tracked? A lot of these things are just holes in the world.
That being said, the spice was fantastic. I loved it. It's the whole reason I kept reading. It's a vampire romance, so there is obviously a lot of blood and sharp objects involved, but there is also a pretty heavy breed kink element to this book. So, if that is a hard pass for you, then this probably isn't the book for you.
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Blood, and Death of parent
ifoundcallie's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Blood
Moderate: Violence, Cursing, Body horror, Death of parent, Murder, Confinement, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual violence
Minor: Abortion, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, and Sexism
Spoiler
three men attempt to drug the main character so they can all SA her behind a bar. She ends up taking them down, and they all end up dying within the chapter. It is never mentioned again.mhairi_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Reverse harem, MMMF, Forced proximity,
POV: Single - Mina
Unfortunately I did not enjoy this one 😔. Essentially this whole book was just page after page of vampire smut. Essentially this was 80% smut 20% plot at best. But if Katee Robert knows one thing it is definitely writing some good smut.
A paranormal reverse harem romance combining all three novellas in the Bloodline Vampire series. This in turn lead to quite a bit of repetition when we moved through the three acts.
Mina is a dhampir, meaning she is half human, half vampire with no magic of her own. She is a complete disgrace to her Father and as such she is sent away by her to live with Malachi Zion, a bloodline vampire, and produce an heir to his slowly dwindling bloodline.
Shortly after Wolf and Rylan, two more bloodline vampires enter the mix and Mina becomes their everything. Their new mission is to take down Mina’s power hungry Father, impregnate her and crown her the Queen.
This novel is steamy don’t get me wrong. Robert knows how to write some awesome smutty scenes but that is all it really was for me. The little plot that was woven through this felt wayyy too farfetched for me and I just couldn’t get passed that. I found myself skimming paragraphs and that isn’t something I normally do.
⚠️ Content Warnings: Dubious consent, blood play, breeding, abusive parent (Father), patricide, pregnancy, blood, gore, murder, explicit sex, vomiting (cause pregnancy), discussions about abortion, attempted sexual assault, attempted drugging.
Graphic: Cursing, Violence, Vomit, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Confinement, Murder, Abandonment, and Body horror
Minor: Grief, Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Eating disorder
karouty's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Graphic: Blood and Sexual content
Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Death, and Death of parent
Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse
rosie_books's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Cursing and Pregnancy
Minor: Vomit, Drug use, Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Violence