Saint Perpetua's College is isolated and ancient. The girls who study there are close-knit but do they also close ranks to outsiders or will newcomer, Laura, find a new home there? This book also very much discusses consent and how power dynamics and manipulation also can play a part in an individual saying yes when they may not under other healthier and safer circumstances. And also just… how hard it can be to leave an abusive relationship… especially when he is a powerful immortal vampire. This was the first viral book I've read from TikTok and I had high expectations due to the number of people raving about it. I think there was a lot of potential here. Don't get me wrong, it's not awful but if you're used to classics or more eloquently written novels: this probably isn't for you. Dracula's immortal harem, which consist of two women named Constanta and Magdalena and a young man named Alexei, are lovers not just with him but with each other.

Overall it was an excellant book I didn't know I needed until today. I heard that S.T. Gibson has a new book coming out set in the same universe. Safe to say that I am incredibly hyped <3 I shuddered as the rain began to pool around us, streaking through my hair and filling my gasping mouth. I know I had a name before that moment. It was a sturdy name, warm and wholesome like a loaf of dark bread fresh out of the oven. But the girl I had been disappeared the instant you pronounced me yours. Grudgingly, I parted my lips and took your blood into my mouth like mother’s milk. If this was to be my only wretched salvation, so be it.

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A dizzying nightmare of a romance that will leave you aching, angry and ultimately hopeful’ Hannah Whitten, author of For the Wolf

Sensual writing style and manipulation theme is continued through the series, and I liked that. The end was a bit dramatic, but it suited the story well! I am looking forward to the next books in the series! Unreliable Narrator: The book is written as a letter that Constanta is writing to her husband, Dracula. The unreliability comes from the fact that she tries to paint him as far more benevolent than he actually is, only to slowly start to discover that he's a depraved monster and sociopath underneath the kind facade he gives out. You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world, you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night’s fever dream that I have finally woken up from” A delectable jewel of a tale, shimmering with dark, beautiful prose’ Tori Bovalino, author of The Devil Makes ThreeAs this is a dark vampire story, the author has a list of possible triggers at the beginning of the book and on Goodreads (in her review). Evil Genius: Dracula is fascinated with learning more about not just his own vampirism but human intellect. He has, over his long immortal life, carefully sought to learn and improve as much as he can and now is a genuine genius. He intentionally surrounds himself with intellectual minds in a search for more and more knowledge.

You will learn, little Constanta,” you said with a fond, patronizing smile. “I’m going to open whole worlds to you.” It took me a few days to ponder about this book, and I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't deserve 5 stars just because it's not A dowry of blood. The magnificent jewel ceaseled and carved into every word, every syllable meticulously pigeonholed into the perfect place, with the perfect prose, to tell the terrible story of Constanta. i'd have liked if the relationship between the two girls wasn't so shallow, surface-level too. it wasn't deep enough to be convincing. the tension though? that was solid, and i believed the attraction but the crush aspect was all-consuming waaaay too fast. An Eastern European peasant named Constanta finds herself dying and is sired and turned into a bride by Count Dracula himself. Dracula later adds two others to his harem, with Constanta realising that Dracula is far more vicious and evil than she's been led to believe. Constanta tells her story in the form of a letter to her husband, although she never once utters his name. It is her first and last love letter to him because in her own words:

It's dual p.o.v. with alternating chapters, and maybe it was just me, but I kept forgetting whose p.o.v. it was, because the voices seemed so similar. They also sounded quite young. If it weren't for some of the content, I would easily say this is YA, although I've been feeling this way about a lot of books lately. Maybe it's just me getting old XD Tara Gilbert at the Jennifer De Chiara Agency sold World English rights in a two-book deal to Assistant Editor Nadia Saward at Orbit UK. Associate Editor Angeline Rodriguez at Orbit US has secured North American rights. As the story progresses, he takes on two more "brides": a scheming Spanish noble named Magdalena and a penniless artist named Alexi. Both are far more mercurially tempered than Constanta, who basically lives up to her name, and she often feels pale in their light. But neither Alexi or Magdalena are fully happy either, and their willfulness is causing tensions in this not-so-happy household. This book is for you if a dark and lyrical, queer retelling of dracula’s brides but the brides are f/f/m and they fall in love with each other sounds interesting to you. A thrilling and seductive Gothic rife with spine-tingling tension and dark romance. A Dowry of Blood left me breathless’Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching