Damn I loved the ways that Alpha's own assumptions about herself were slowly revealed to be nothing more than just just having the ability to not deal with those issues in that way from being an alpha. She isn't special for it, she's just another alpha. Similarly the way their dynamic worked the whole time helped perfectly to underline how they approach this differently. For Omega (The clearly superior girl and would make an excellent date partner) it's an act of reversal, while for the Alpha it's a series of ways to maintain the system. The sex and violence were mixed perfectly together to make them both play into each other until there wasn't really a difference and I loved every second of it.
Short but fun read! All the pieces fit smoothly together in a tense relationship that really hits home just how much harm's getting done. Moira and Valerie work really well together, and the Vampire Hunters really do act as a good organization of their own seperate from the police, it really brought to mind the people I know who work in weapons manufactoring or surveilence construction even if that's 'immoral' because it helps them get by. Vampires really did a good job of not being a metaphor. Plus the designs were cute.
Let's go to Heaven was honestly an amazing read. Even from the start language is used masterfully to evoke a specific type of feeling while still actually making the actual words make sense. That is honestly, way harder to do then it sounds and definently harder then you've made it look here. The way sex is described, does an amazing job of both being actually erotic and feeling so hollow that you know that Deimos is basically unable to get into it. This also ends up playing into how they become gods really nicely, with Deimos going from feeling like someone who's bored and hollow to someone who has basically no will for herself. It's fascinating to see how that makes her puppetted by someone else's desires even while she is disgusted by them. This is especially noticable after going through it a second time to find that there was no changes no matter what you choose, even when they were meaningfully different.||
I think for main criticisms, a ton of energy is spent building it up so that the whole piece has a certain feel but most of that is done for setting the tone. After that's been done, that sort of eerie feeling where nothing is quite grounded ||Is really only dropped off at the very end. While that is a nice touch, it leads to there being a lot of emotional points that feel very similarly because they're all in the same soup. Stuff like panic, apathy, desire, and disgust all have a similar feeling throughout, and it'd been nice if there was a bit more distinction to each of them.||
That being said, one of my two favorites at the moment. I really liked the characters here, they played together really nicely and that's on top of the use of language.
This was great, Emily is honestly someone I really love here. She's both someone that you get to see her thought process enough that at some point it kind of feels justified, but also know that it can't work how she wants to. It just can't.
This is fantastic, slowly crushes you with the weight of the tide and worms it's way in to drag you with it. The characters feel like their ready to drag you into this mess, and it's amazing every second of it.
