A review by bratatouille
A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger

3.0

I did enjoy this! Or at least, I enjoyed more parts than I didn’t. At a certain point, I felt that it was much longer than it needed to be. The pacing is incredibly slow and the timing in this book is sort of touch-and-go. I understand that they’re vampires and timing means nothing to them. I get that. However, the first third or so of the book takes place within a year and then there are time skips over several months, fifteen years, and five years. It’s difficult to determine how long an event spans. The prose in this was half flooring and half things like, “her whole body felt like a breast” or unnecessarily using words like ‘behoove’. The characters are diverse, queer, and lovable. Frankly, this book is all vibes. The plot is not incredibly grabbing, due to the pacing, and the ending was not as pleasing as the journey we took to get there. Sometimes I thought the protagonist could just shut up and everyone loved her a little too much. But I am going to buy this and pretend like I’m gonna read it again, one day.