I loved parts of this book, could take or leave other parts, and disliked some parts.

Overall, I really liked how it portrayed someone going through an existential crisis around sexuality, relationships, guilt, and parental conflict all boiling together in a really well-told mix of present and past memories.

There were occasions where the phrasing felt just a tiny bit too melodramatic and bordering on pretentious for me, but most of the existential stuff worked really nicely. There were also a couple of slightly odd scatological references that I'm not sure I needed. 

And I'm really not sure how necessary the inclusion of the vampire was. Other than giving it a gothic feel, it felt like his vampirism wasn't really explored particularly fully, there were no real consequences, to the point that I wondered if it was just meant to be a metaphor or he was just lying about it. Maybe the ambiguity is the point. But I feel like the same allure and mystery could be given by him just being a mysterious and alluring man.

I would have perhaps liked some deeper sense of resolution to get us to Noelle's state in the ending; she seems to act as though she's had an epiohany, but I never fully got that from what we saw her go through.

But overall, as I say, I did really enjoy the whole mix.