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adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
The first half of vittorio is amazing and extremely engaging, the descriptions of Italy are beautiful once again and the way the art is described along with the clothes and architecture is beautiful too. The mystery of the red court was fun and reminded me a lot of the children of darkness which we saw in the previous books. And then this weird pacing issue comes in where the last half of the book feels like unfinished drafts from the vampire armand and Memnoch the devil, and it’s very disorienting. We’re suddenly on a quest with angels to kill vampires when it’s written like vittorio is going to be turned into one. And then we go back to how it was paced and written in the first half, and it feels like you’re reading another book at the same time. The writing is still good but the pacing was pretty bad here and not much really sense, overall this book really felt like a bunch of drafts from her other books that she just threw into one book and it really feels like she was meeting a publishing deadline with this book. The only other interesting thing that hooked me was the ancient Italian and Roman politics which she clearly knew a lot about and it very much reminded me of Dante’s work.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Blood