marissaisbooked's reviews
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Who doesn’t love a murdery little meet cute? 😂 I’ve gone into each of these blind without reading the blurbs so I didn’t know what to expect, but I felt bad for how much Atticus felt like he doesn’t fit in with the rest of the family. Jericho goes to bat for Atticus and I loved him for it. This family may be made up of psychopaths, but them each finding their person and learning how to have and be a supportive partner is adorable.  Atticus saying his brothers have started mating for life like psychotic penguins had me cracking up 💀 

These books each follow a very similar formula if I’m being honest but I’m eating them up. The psychos are weirdly endearing and the spice is great. 

This book introduced a bunch of additional side characters with Jericho’s little band of misfits so I’m interested to see how they play into the rest of the books. 

Also…if Thomas’s story isn’t part of this series after some of the revelations in this book, I will be so mad lol

This weird little group of psychopaths are surprisingly cute and endearing, idk how to explain it 😂  this is definitely insta-love, but something about Adam trying to figure out how to act like a person to be the best he can for Noah, his obsession, that was adorable.  

I immediately started book 2 after finishing this, I’m very into this psycho family for some reason. 

While these aren’t as gory as I expected given it’s about a family of vigilante k1IIers psychopaths, there is a lot of dark material in the storyline so please be cautious and check TWs.

Note: I listened to the audiobook on Hoopla and while I really enjoyed the story, the narration isn’t great. The narrator sounded fine when narrating as Noah, but you know the voice Will Arnett uses to voice Lego Batman? That’s what the narrator sounded like when voicing Adam 💀  thankfully I listen to audiobooks on ~2.25x speed so the voice didn’t bother me enough to keep from listening or listening to the rest of the audiobooks. 

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3.25-3.5⭐️  I can’t decide 

Overall, I thought this was really interesting and honestly devoured it. I really enjoyed Faye and Rune, as well as Voshki. Their relationship goes through a lot in this first book but I enjoyed their dynamic and banter. One thing I really loved about this world is the focus on/importance of female sexual pleasure/gratification. It’s a key part of the way some of the courts function and enjoyed the primary focus being on female pleasure as opposed to men. 

However, I find some of the magic/world to be confusing? There’s invoking the blood but also a Ceremony of Blood and the use of alters, and tbh I don’t feel like it was explained enough cause I’m not 100% sure on the difference between the two as well as how people know which alter to use? 

Despite the confusion around some of the world building, I will be promptly moving on to book 2!

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Why choose with more than one female 👏🏼  I love why choose books/series, but there’s rarely more than one woman and I am living for it. 

Daya, the FMC, is daughter of the Acna (the witch leader). The witches have been at war with the vampires for centuries, but without her knowledge Daya’s mother magically binds her into an arranged marriage with the vampire king as a truce. 

The world, the magic, the characters, the plot twists!! I am so invested and cannot wait for book 2. 

Also I love that Daya is also an ~older supernatural (153) as opposed to being a 20 yr old with a 200+ yr old MMC as is very common in romantasy books. 

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Queer polyamorous Dracula reimagining. WHY DID I LET THIS SIT ON MY PHYSICAL TBR FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS?! 

This was hauntingly beautiful and I loved every single second of it. S.T. Gibson was able to evoke so much emotion through these letters. At 236 pages, this was a one-sitting read for me and I’m kicking myself for not reading it sooner. 

I also love that this was written through letters/diary entries in the same style as Bram Stroker’s Dracula.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one because I LOVED the first book then absolutely hatedddd the second. However, I did end up really enjoying this. It’s a bit slower in the beginning than the others in the series, but tbh I would have an issue if it had moved faster to start considering Hayes is demi. They needed time to develop that connection first. 

This ended up being a lot sweeter than I was expecting, especially given Hayes dislike of Kason’s behaviors as a roommate in the beginning. Kason is a bumbling idiot to start and Hayes is a huge grump, but the way their relationship developed and their characters grew was very cute.  

I enjoy CE Ricci’s books but man does she love those 3rd act breakups 😅 this one felt a bit forced if I’m being honest. They had a conversation regarding the situation and it seemed like it was going to go in a certain direction, then suddenly it went in the complete opposite direction because it’s a CE Ricci book so of course it did. 

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