A review by lizardgoats
The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse by Jessica Lévai

reflective fast-paced

3.0

Being generous with my stars. The format of the book--written in verse--is such a cool take on the form of a novel. Also vampires! But I was really unnerved by their first meeting when she's a kid, then 19 when they "fall in love," the fact he's married, and the general power imbalance of an immortal with a teenager.

That being said, it obviously has a framework taken straight from Romeo & Juliet (not to mention classic vampire tales) so I get why a lot of the tropes in it were used. I just didn't particularly like any of them.

Not upset I read it or that I don't like it much. It was still an interesting concept for a novel (as in form not genre) with beautiful prose and imagery.