I should have been dead long ago, but somehow I was still alive, renewed vigor rushing through my veins. By writing this book I was able to dive headfirst into themes of love and marriage, abuse and tenderness, and life and death. Recommended Read: You might also like the queer reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, The Route of Ice and Salt! We feast on the ruins of empire,” he declares with a grand flourish, forgetting that it makes him a scavenger, not a sovereign. My only protestation was silent tears streaming down my cheeks, my body a rictus of rigid pain as you drank your fill of me.

She’s just so excited for and by her characters that it’s hard to critique any little instances of faux pas.

It is lyrical perfection and I loved every word of this queer reimagining of Dracula’s brides and it has stayed with me long after reading.

My throat was hoarse from smoke and screaming, and my body was a tender mass of bruises and shattered bones. I didn't know what you were offering me, I just knew I was terrified that you were going to leave me. It was perched high above the village, in the craggy mountains where few of the common people ever ventured. She doesn’t tie them to the minutia of time or place because they are so very out of time and place, creatures who defy mortality—and conventional morality. There was the clanking of armor and the low chatter of men, far enough away that I would never have been able to hear it before, but not so far that we couldn't close to distance between us and them in a matter of minutes.Our Vampires Are Different: Vampires here are able to go out in sunlight normally and feed off blood, but do not need to take the lives of others. How they learn to lean on and build true bonds with one another that would ultimately be Dracula’s undoing.