Carmilla and Laura
Ratings11
Average rating4.3
When I read Carmilla, I was disappointed. There wasn't much of the romance promised, and the plot seemed slow until during the climax it was a bunch of nonsense with a massive info-dump. I liked how this book had a lot of the elements that the original had, but was much easier to follow. Not to mention the writing was fantastic as well as the romance. After comparing the two books, I feel like this book has way more plot, believable characters, and better worldbuilding. 10/10 would recommend!
I hate to give this two stars because overall I don't think it's a bad book, it just wasn't what I wanted from a Carmilla retelling. If you're looking for a vampire lesbian story that ends with them happily living the rest of their undead lives together then you'll probably like this fine. For me I was looking for a story that goes leads more with the horror of the original then a love story.
The two thing that I find irritated me was 1.Laura is more horrified and has a hard time reconciling her being gay then the fact that Carmilla is a vampire that must kill people in order to live and 2. All the deaths that Carmilla has causes and the horrible things that she has done are somewhat justified and she doesn't really face any consequences for her actions.
Again I realize I was looking for a very different type of story. This takes a horror story and makes it a romance where as I wanted to go more in depth with a classic horror story.