A review by sophiehatters
Roseblood by A.G. Howard

dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

A sob lodges in my throat. I peel my gaze away, unable to watch another second. It’s not the deformity that makes it unbearable. It’s the unquenchable agony inside those glimmering deep-set eyes—over a century’s worth of dejection, sorrow, and rage.

i honestly hated every second of this book. i didn’t mind that it was long, but i minded that it was filled with endless drivel. there was simply way too much exposition, especially in thorn’s povs. speaking of, whose book this is even? is it thorn’s? or rune’s? because i could have sworn that i got more thorn’s povs than rune’s. 

or maybe his povs were too long that it felt like they went on forever. i would also like to mention a few things that i was confused about: 

if they’re in france, why are the kids speaking in english? that seemed odd.

there was a scene in the book where rune, a succubus, kissed her friend, jax (someone who already has a special someone) to suck his energy. her kissing her friend’s man was already bad enough but the guy was high out of his minds. he couldn’t possibly consent to that kiss. so, rune essentially sexually assaulted him, which grossed me out. 

 the heavy use of the word g*psy in place of yemeni. we all know this is racist as hell.

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