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A review by mstall_
So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison
Did not finish book. Stopped at 66%.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
2.5
Listen, I love all things RH. I’ve loved all of her books thus far so when I heard she was coming out with a vampire horror novel I was desperately waiting for release day. I am so bummed with myself for not loving it at ALL. I tried, I really really tried but this is just not the book for me. I guess I was bound to dislike one of her books eventually.
Other reviewers seems split on if they like the friendship between Naomi and Sloane or if they hate it. I, personally, hate it. I think Naomi is the worst type of friend: pushy, disregards boundaries, completely self-obsessed. Naomi is the friend that says “you experience sucks but actually mine sucks harder”. She’s a TERRIBLE friend to Sloane, completely disregarding any semblance of boundaries Sloane attempts to put up. Sloane mentions multiple times in her inner monologue how she’s uncomfortable or upset by Naomi’s behavior but sticks around because they’ve been friends since jr high. Sorry that’s not a good enough reason to put up with Naomi’s bullshit behavior to me.
Sloane isn’t perfect either. I also hated her character. She has the personality of dishwater. We really spent like 100 pages reading her inner monologue of being scared to love again because she had a bad boyfriend in college and then made a bad choice with her cheating husband. Girl you have AGENCY. You have choice. And you’re 36. I get that Naomi was trying to drive this point home but she was doing it in such an immature, self-obsessed way it was practically unreadable.
The vampires themselves were not super interesting, and of COURSE there is the vampiric love interest who is 500 years old and OF COURSE he’s obsessed with Sloane, this random doormat of a person, the SECOND he sniffs her. Someone said this was a much worse Twilight and I’d have to agree.
I’ve never read a book where I hated every character so in some ways this was a great first for me. I will be re-reading Cackle and Black Sheep until her next book comes out. Hopefully I like that one wayyyyy better.
Other reviewers seems split on if they like the friendship between Naomi and Sloane or if they hate it. I, personally, hate it. I think Naomi is the worst type of friend: pushy, disregards boundaries, completely self-obsessed. Naomi is the friend that says “you experience sucks but actually mine sucks harder”. She’s a TERRIBLE friend to Sloane, completely disregarding any semblance of boundaries Sloane attempts to put up. Sloane mentions multiple times in her inner monologue how she’s uncomfortable or upset by Naomi’s behavior but sticks around because they’ve been friends since jr high. Sorry that’s not a good enough reason to put up with Naomi’s bullshit behavior to me.
Sloane isn’t perfect either. I also hated her character. She has the personality of dishwater. We really spent like 100 pages reading her inner monologue of being scared to love again because she had a bad boyfriend in college and then made a bad choice with her cheating husband. Girl you have AGENCY. You have choice. And you’re 36. I get that Naomi was trying to drive this point home but she was doing it in such an immature, self-obsessed way it was practically unreadable.
The vampires themselves were not super interesting, and of COURSE there is the vampiric love interest who is 500 years old and OF COURSE he’s obsessed with Sloane, this random doormat of a person, the SECOND he sniffs her. Someone said this was a much worse Twilight and I’d have to agree.
I’ve never read a book where I hated every character so in some ways this was a great first for me. I will be re-reading Cackle and Black Sheep until her next book comes out. Hopefully I like that one wayyyyy better.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, and Blood
Moderate: Vomit