I'm someone who literally only reads books BECAUSE OF chosen one bullshit and Gary Stus but there was NO intrigue in this!!! the sex scenes weren't even good!! somehow instalove??? the blood boss guy was all "everybody else clear out of the room I need to talk to the twink sea creature man who has recently come to our charge"
and then he's like "I had a dream about you"
and then there's blushing
and then they fuck

this was a few specific tropes with no connective tissue or substance.

there was a fight somewhere?? idek who they were fighting other than some people from the twink guy's bio-parents shit

there wasn't enough tension or suspense. somehow the stakes just fell flat.

also hated the whole "humans rarely do things for each other, why did this person stand in for his dad's debts?" like there's just so many loopholes there. is everyone really taking these debts out? why aren't there more indentured servants?

what did the vamps save humanity from??

it plays on so many ecofascist misconceptions to just assume I'm supposed to believe humans are so bad and never willing to do things for each other. like buddy all the problems in society can stem back to like,, the equivalent of like 5 guys. it's not actually 5 guys but basically it's 5 guys. the average human doesn't have the socioeconomic power to doom us all. what exactly was supposed to have happened here


like I could MAYBE excuse the plot issues if it made sense to me that it was meant as a porn with plot thing. but the porn was not even good. just all the expected top bottom stereotypes and nothing of intrigue.