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Went directly into my notes app to draft up this nonsense 😂

this is my review now idc 💁🏼‍♀️

I don't feel like tidying it up into something more public eyes friendly

My reviews are mainly for myself anyways 🥴

Rating: ???

Mixed feelings

Pros -

Fun "easy" read

Hashtag relatable

Hilarious sh*t happens

Gorey asfff

Sh*tty men die horrible deaths they definitely deserve

Vampires duh

✨️vibes✨️

Pro/con - lot of the dialogue was cheesy as hell

It's giving campy horror

Cons -

Some of the writing was irritating (overly descriptive like: "...it hurts like nothing I've ever felt before. What I imagine it would be like to have a tooth extracted without anesthetic, a bone hammered broken, a limb axed off. A removal. An unwelcome alteration." Like okay damn we get it geez moving on lmao)

The ending/epilogue was ??? kind of a mess? weird and didn't make much sense IMO

There's plot holes, so many plot holes

The vamp lore and overall world building didn't feel fully fleshed out

Insta love in the cringiest way possible like mf you are bein goofy rn pls shut the f* up 😂😭

Fmc b*tching and moaning like every other page about being "old" (36) and uGlY, and miserable

Annoying but honestly same gurl 💀

The toxic bestie situation, like are y'all okay? 🤔

Basically -

If I was rating for vibes and overall enjoyment of the absolute *ride* that was this book then it's a 4.5 but if I'm rating based on the writing and story, then it's more like a 3.5 and honestlyyy I think if I hadnt read this while I was hormonal it would've gotten a solid 3 stars ngl

I did actually like how the author made the reader get the distinct feeling that the ending would somehow involve the dream mall and it would likely be a tragedy (or is that just me? Surely not?)

3.75-ish, maybe?

Weird freakin vibes, but I kinda dig it lol

Definitely not like anything else I've read before

I actually really enjoyed this book, but there were some things in it that bothered me enough to feel the need to dock my rating a bit.

I was sitting heavy on a 3.5 rating, but tbh the saving Grace (literally, pun intended) that bumped it up to 4 stars, was Grace Cavanaugh 😂🤌🏻

What happened to Slick kinda gave me the ick (lol) bc it felt kinda idk, unnecessary? Maybe that's just me. But yeah, overall, I did enjoy this book!

It was super creepy/disturbing at times, but great at keeping my attention throughout the entire 14 hour audiobook (PS highly recommend the audio bc the narrator had the perfect accent & really brought this story to life)

It was my first Grady Hendrix read & I will definitely be reading more in the future~

I can see why there's people who decide to never rate non-fiction books, this was difficult to rate. I've settled on a 3.75 & this rating is mainly based on the directly transcripted interview format, rather than on the overall content of the book itself. The book was indeed educational/informative for me as a white woman & I learned many things, I just wish the format was, not necessarily different, but perhaps edited in a better way?