Stain By A. G. Howard
stain by a. g. howard
7/10
• fractured fairytale, and i love those
• HAD A MAP!!! 🩷
• lush descriptions of EVERYTHING, settings, appearances, foods, etc. totally ripe with sensory detail (sometimes gets to be a lot, but if you’re into that kind intense detail/worldbuilding it doesn’t bother)
• good good memorable characters, the villain is truly so evil it made my skin crawl, female protagonist was good - confused but not defenseless, male protagonist was more than just a hot guy, had his own thing going on (but also he was really hot)
• weird emphasis on how small the female protagonist is, which personally annoyed me
• little bit of a dubious age gap (17 x 20)
• good love story, big emphasis on being friends before lovers and both sides being equal in the relationship, got to be corny sometimes but overall very cute
• lots of exposition before the actual meat of the story, was a little tedious but was well written so i couldn’t complain too much
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yeah man you're gonna learn a ton about Antigua, namely that the locals fucking hate your tourist ass and the colonialist legacy that turns Caribbean islands into playgrounds for westerners. incredible work. this is either a brilliantly placed stealth insult or the work of someone who's never actually read the book. funny either way.
i want to be a vampire so bad. it would open up a whole new world of procrastination. puts off finishing a novel for 100 years. i don’t do the dishes for 20. oh wait i don’t have dishes because i suck blood. another fucking win
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