chaotic neutral

I finished Hungerstone and I gotta be honest I didn't see the hype. Like great, lesbians vampires, some lavish writing but ultimately just boring. The book is predictable from start to finish which is wild cause I don't read vampire novels. It is so transparently the author working through some great anger or disservice, which I'm okay with, but most books written as a form of therapy are not interesting reads unless the author is willing to be unbearable vulnerable- which this lacks. Carmilla could be a deeply fascinating character but instead is a flat plot device with no dimension. The lack of depth explained away by giving Lenore permission to not care about the answer to her questions is really just the fact the author does not need Carmilla to be a rounded character, she only needs her as an engine. Not a love story, goes light on the descriptions of the grotesque for a horror, not nearly eerie enough for a gothic. All in all the writing was still pretty. Wasn't awful, wasn't great, just fine. More nitpicky- author uses the word heather 26 times, like you could use something else to describe the landscape....

am i ready for off ice hockey or what?

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