Okay, so, full disclosure: I’m trying to burn through my Kindle Unlimited backlog list, because I’m cancelling my subscription next month, because I hate a price hike.
(The new fees system also charges readers more to pay authors less, which is corporate greed at its finest. But, theoretically, this review isn’t supposed to be my Rant About the Evils of Capitalism, but I digress).
Lord of Eternal Night is your typical monster-y romance: ingenue protagonist gets sacrificed to the monster, finds out they’re not so monsterous after all, questions some life choices, falls in love. You know the drill! We all like the drill!
On one hand: I will read absolutely every version of Beauty & the Beast, and the basic formula of that plot will get me every damn time.
I have accepted this about myself.
I have also accepted that I just fundamentally LOVE a good moment where we rules-lawyer a curse at the last possible second, bending the terms til they break as midnight strikes/the sun rises/whatever. Just: A+ trope, totally golden.
On the OTHER hand: Replacing the so-called love of your life with just some other guy with the same name, who happens to be here, just kind of gives me the heebie jeebies.
That’s…not romantic. That’s a just a sign you need to work through some shit and practice the ability to see other people as individuals. Like, I know this guy’s okay with it – but that’s just because he has no self-esteem!
(Is there no therapy in Vampire Town? Fuck, I bet there’s no therapy in Vampire Town. We’re out of luck!)
Cannonball Read 15 BINGO: Dwelling
(because living in a cursed castle, trying to escape the cursed castle, and ultimately needing to magically burn down the cursed castle is VERY MUCH a story about a place where people dwell!)
