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A review by rachelsinabook
A Multitude of Dreams by Mara Rutherford
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
*Thank you to Inkyard Press and NetGalley for sending me this eARC to review!*
‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾overall rating: 3.5/5 stars, but rounding up to 4 stars☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙
↪this book is for you if you like...
☽ dark academia
☽ retelling
☽ edgar allen poe
☽ horror
☽ enemies to lovers slow burn
☽ gothic
☽ dual pov
☽ erin a. craig books
↪length: 384 pages
༻✦༺ old king stuart's lost his head, hoping he won't end up dead. ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ lock the windows, bar the door; the plague will come for rich and poor. ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ if you want to stay alive, there are three ways to survive: ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ run away across the sea; pray for blood immunity; ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ or die and be reborn again, and drink the blood of living men. ༻✦༺
dear reader, you're in for a treat of you love gothic horror retellings, masquerade balls, enemies to lovers and tons of deceit.
what i liked
☽ overall vibes
☽ writing style (very fast-paced, didn't feel like it dragged)
☽ can we talk about the cover?? like, hello gorgeous
☽ action-packed ending
☽ well-written villain
☽ well-written secondary characters that actually had plot-relevance
what i didn't like
☽ i wish that there was more jewish rep other than the occasional mention of seraphina being jewish
☽ i wish there could have been a little more development of the romance between nico and seraphina
☽ nico was a little bit of a flat character, but was cute ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎
☽ i wish there was more explanation of the vampires and what exactly they can and can't do, because it felt like they were just
☾trigger warnings☽
death, blood, violence, mild self-harm, antisemitism, death of a parent, grief
‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾overall rating: 3.5/5 stars, but rounding up to 4 stars☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙
↪this book is for you if you like...
☽ dark academia
☽ retelling
☽ edgar allen poe
☽ horror
☽ enemies to lovers slow burn
☽ gothic
☽ dual pov
☽ erin a. craig books
↪length: 384 pages
༻✦༺ old king stuart's lost his head, hoping he won't end up dead. ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ lock the windows, bar the door; the plague will come for rich and poor. ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ if you want to stay alive, there are three ways to survive: ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ run away across the sea; pray for blood immunity; ༻✦༺
༻✦༺ or die and be reborn again, and drink the blood of living men. ༻✦༺
dear reader, you're in for a treat of you love gothic horror retellings, masquerade balls, enemies to lovers and tons of deceit.
what i liked
☽ overall vibes
☽ writing style (very fast-paced, didn't feel like it dragged)
☽ can we talk about the cover?? like, hello gorgeous
☽ action-packed ending
☽ well-written villain
☽ well-written secondary characters that actually had plot-relevance
what i didn't like
☽ i wish that there was more jewish rep other than the occasional mention of seraphina being jewish
☽ i wish there could have been a little more development of the romance between nico and seraphina
☽ nico was a little bit of a flat character, but was cute ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎
☽ i wish there was more explanation of the vampires and what exactly they can and can't do, because it felt like they were just
☾trigger warnings☽
death, blood, violence, mild self-harm, antisemitism, death of a parent, grief