The Scarlet Veil by Shelby Mahurin

If this is a love triangle. I can't.
Reid's just trying his best. Poor boi.
The reason why men shouldn't be in charge: they don't listen and they stupid.
No proof until there's a body.
640 Pages

TS Song: YOYOK, Champagne Problems, You're Losing Me

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead.

Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.

Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.

When the United States attacks Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But the shock of their reunion—and Nena’s rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago—is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.

And unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.
 

Pages: 371

My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine

Cackles. Reginald. I love him. For a second I was expecting him to be, like, a really snarky bat.
Just the whole. Vampire trying to interact with the modern world and being confused by credit cards and coffee sizes and the internet
It's like the progressive commercials

His Victorian sensibilities
Frederick looking at Instagram:

HE FEEDS HER.
Frederick and Cassie:

Frederick:

his magic power. omg I love it.
Me:

Hi. I need a companion novel...and some novellas of shenanigans.
352 Pages

Draula by Bram Stoker

 

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

I ended up watching the 1930s Dracula movie after this and man did they leave so so much out! Now on to watch the Gary Oldman version :) 

Pages: 488

A Soul of Ash and Blood by Jennifer L Armentrout

So it's From Blood and Ashes told from Hake's point of view, but there are some chapters set in the present (post )
Is it problematic that I love characters that go ballistic when someone they love is hurt.....probably. meh.
HAWKE👏 LOVING👏 HER👏 FOR👏 WHO👏 SHE👏 IS. 👏
#HusbandGoals
Honestly should have predicted that last bit happening.
DELANO MY BABY. PROTECT.
Ok so like...can I have the rest of the books from his perspective....goes back and checks to see if we got his perspective because we might have but I don't remember.
Sits here and waits until next year for the next book. Cries. Because like...how next book do things.
At least there's another book from the spin off series coming in October, and that can help me deal with the lack of a publication date.
608 Pages

Cherish by Tracy Wolff

Y'all my ship my ship my ship my shipppppppppp
Hudson continues to be the sweet treat that is too good for this world, and we don't deserve him and his singing.
The ribbon mobile for the baby.
Everyone finding out the deets.
Jaxon and his hair.
Flint: 

Alexandria my home.
My ship my ship my ship my ship
I kept expecting the dew to be a baja blast.

My babies. I love them. I can't protect them. I love them.
Me having the bonus content from special editions to give me life.
592 Pages

Not the Witch You Wed, Not Your Ex's Hexes by April Asher

ok so I love the set-up of how the different groups are organized. Like, there's a North American branch of werewolves.
Protects Lincoln.
Me not remembering what happened in the book, but I don't care.
334 Pages

IT'S A HORSE GIRL BOOK kind of ...
Ok but Damian being a vet, which means that we get to see animals.
Watches the ships in the backgrounds. Also we're probably getting one for baby sister.
343 Pages

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

When they say Palm Springs, I keep thinking they mean Coral Palms, Florida

......some of this is real problematic.....like....let's not....promote body dysmorphia and eating disorders....like....a size 4 is not fat.....
The age gap is a nah for me.
423 Pages

Charm by Tracy Wolff

The shenanigans. The pranks. The payback. Are they immature. Probably. Do I love. yes. 
The. Epilogue.

I love Hudson. So much. Y'all don't understand.
SMOKEYYYYY
The Target version had bonus Hudson chapters and like...best investment of my life.
600 Pages

Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

WEST VIRGINIA:

Hey look. More racism.....Can we....not.....see everyone as either backward and primitive or like...civilized....like....
This was clearly written in a time when people had money and gas wasn't a gazillion dollars...
588 Pages

Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Hey Mother Gothel is back.
"you broke into a maximum security prison"
"must not have been all that secure"
...sometimes Rose is really clueless and it shows...but at least she has survival skills.
......Adrian why.
Dad really gives me Gomez Addams vibes


512 Pages

Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead

Hey look. The problem with the mind-sharing thing that I knew was gonna happen happened.\
Dimitri: 

We love Eddie. And Christian.
Cackles cause therapy is literally about how everything is connected even if you don't think it is.
....I'd appreciate it if we stop treating mental illness as like something that means a person is crazy....cause like....no....
464 Pages

Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Sometimes I really just don't like crappy parents.
Rose growing up is just. finally.
Hey look. Trauma.
"Lots of things."

But also 6'7" is a ridiculous and in no way even fantastically realistic.
352 Pages

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

.....No one is 6'7"....
Me watching all this high school drama: 

So Rose is immature--but she's a teenager, so like....I have to cut her some slack.
*remembers how toxic I was in high school and college and cringes
Dimitri and Rose:

Me cringing at the 2007 book in 2022 cause eesh some of this did not age well.... mostly in terms of like....sensitivity to mental illness and stuff.....
So Lissa is Rapunzel but different.
Me knowing all of the tropes
352 Pages

Cruel Illusions by Margie Fuston

You can't have a character named Willow, and have her obsessively sing Cardigan in the car...
Yes my ship....... I knew it.
It's marketed as Carvaval + Buffy the Vampire Slayer....Accurate.
Also it's like....fantasy-esque, but it's in California and in modern times.... like...wut.
Minor commentary on the foster system!
512 Pages

Katmere Academy: An Insider's Guide by Tracy Wolff

The bonus chapters....gahhhhhh
The content. The random information. The official art. getting to know more about the Order
Y'all. The novella. fjldkfkldfdklls. The content I always want (Hudson content); he so rightfully angsty. He be an angsty teen, even though he's been alive for a while, cause he's a vampire.
301 Pages

TS Swift: (I wanna make a joke about State of Grace...cause Grace); Dancing With Our Hands Tied, The Outside, Haunted, The Very First Night

Court by Tracy Wolff

I. love. this. series. Was I cackling and smirking through the majority of this....yes...I love it. The characters.
I just have so many memes and gifs (Avengers) that I could but I can't remember them because I read it over a weekend and didn't take notes.
I just desperately need the next book....
Hudson. I love him. We know this.
Anxiety rep. fantastic.
Anytime Cyrus says anything I just....am tempted to slap him
everyone is gonna need therapy, y'all. 
Everyone's talking about Harry Styles and his album, and I'm just WAITING for someone to please mention Taylor Swift, except the album was created because of quarantine, so does it exist in this world...I have no idea. 
720 Pages

TS Song: ....all of Reputation (I Did Something Bad, Don't Blame Me, and Look What You Made Me Do)... Plus a little bit of Mad Woman

Covet by Tracy Wolff

Cyrus to Hudson and Grace:

Hudson, I know you're a vampire, but crud you're thirsty. 
All my babies gonna need so much therapy. Cause trauma...trauma everywhere. 
The entire prison section is just.. love it. 

Hey look, is that commentary on how the prison system is kind of messed up and unfair and broken.
I love the characters. I love the humor. I love the references. It's like Twilight, but better.
600 Pages

Taylor Swift song: I Know Places...there's a scene in NY so I'm like...tempted to put Welcome to New York.
                            

Crush by Tracy Wolff

lol this is a May book not an April book
I like.....don't know who to ship because like....fjkldssfjkldsfjkd
when a character has potential and you see them blowing it, through no fault of their own, but just because of their personlality, even though they're well-meaning..... like....
704 Pages

A Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout

It's a re-read and I'm feeling things...and I'm also looking for all the clues. 
Rereads= more appreciation for Kieran (and obvs for Cas as well).
574 Pages