Una lezione di perfidia

sapphic carmilla retelling??? say less Dripping with blood and brimming with desperation, An Education in Malice is an intoxicating gothic academia intimately entangled with fraught relationships, desire, and obsession. S.T. Gibson places her own twist on the story of Carmilla, reinvigorating it with Leggi tutto

DNF @72% I'll just keep this really brief- Full disclosure- I listened to the audiobook. I wasn't impressed with the narrators at all, and I feel like I would have felt the same way if I read the kindle or physical book. But the advantage with the kindle as I would have known each chapter as it alt

"For those who didn't make it out of the ivory tower unscathed: you have always been worthy." ★ 3 stars You'll enjoy this book if you like: ➸ Dark academia ➸ Academic rivals to lovers ➸ Sapphic vampires / LGBTIQ+ representation ➸ Dual POV This is a Carmilla retelling, following two academic Leggi tutto

2.5/5 The way I absolutely loved the idea for this book, but I couldn’t, even when I really wanted to connect with it and its characters. I literally took a break from reading for two days after one of the major plot twists.. I think that shows enough how absorbed I was in the story. A Dowry of Blood Leggi tutto

Many thanks to Redhook Books and NetGalley for providing me with this e-ARC in exchange of my honest review. Rating: 3.5/5 This book is the incarnation of a lesbian-academic-who-happens-to-drink-blood's Pinterest board. This feels like a long woody table decorated with Queens of the Night, red wine fr Leggi tutto

I felt certain that I could perish like this, suffocated by her thighs, and die perfectly happy. Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ ⚠️ Trigger Warning: Uneven Power Dynamics, Inappropriate Student-Professor Relationships, Toxic Academic Environments, Graphic Deaths, Exhibitionism, Kink 📍 Release date: 15 February Why have Leggi tutto

cryinghdjshsj i fear i will never beat the "she doesn't like s.t. gibson's books" accusations

Well, well, well. This was a little disappointing. Set in the world of A Dowry of Blood, what we have here is a quite straightforward sapphic enemies-to-lovers trope with a background of vampirism. The characters, frankly, felt unremarkable and shallow as the author doesn’t really delve into their psy Leggi tutto

sapphic, dark academia, vampires, rivals and gothic… this really ATE! such a fun quick read. i do feel like the relationship moved to fast in the sense that they literally went from rivals to lovers but there was nothing in between that. i understand because the romance wasn’t the main part of the b Leggi tutto