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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2021
I've seen a lot of reviews that say the main character is misogynistic, but I'm actually going to say, in this case, it seemed like a problem with the whole book, not just the character. Women were portrayed so badly. They were all lying, deceitful, bloodthirsty, greedy, vengeful, horrible people. The men were their "innocent" victims. And the few women who weren't horrible were just there to have sex with and/or be a mother. Most of them simply couldn't resist Sirius's hotness. The only decent female character was the vampire dog.
But other reviewers aren't wrong, Sirius himself was misogynistic too. He seemed to think women were only good for sex. He cheated on the woman he was marrying on their wedding day. As soon as he met his teenage daughters, he immediately became overprotective of their innocence. I'm not sure if the reader was meant to think he was a good person and feel bad for him, since other characters would sometimes say he was a good person, and he seemed to think he was a good person, but I didn't feel at all bad when he got kidnapped and thrown into a dungeon. When the reader doesn't care that the main character has been thrown in a dungeon, that's not a good sign. He was kind of just The Worst. If it had just been him, I would have chalked it up to a character purposefully written as a jerk, but as I said, the book in general had issues, so I'm genuinely not sure if he was meant to be portrayed as a good person or not.
I did laugh on occasion. There were some funny moments, and the book had a light, humorous tone to it.
Mostly though, I just couldn't get into this. This book was really just about a man sleeping with a bunch of women, most of whom he had just met, getting married and divorced multiple times, and very occasionally getting into a fight or some other sort of trouble. And I wasn't invested enough in the character to stay interested. There wasn't even any vampire-ness to keep my attention. I probably would have DNFed if not for the audiobook. Speaking of...
I listened to the audiobook for this, and the narrator, Patrick Zeller, was fantastic! He sounded so natural and conversational in the way he talked, which suited the story perfectly. He was fantastic at accents too. I don't even know what his natural accent is, but he had a Spanish accent throughout this book and did various other accents for other characters. He really brought this story to life and made it better for me.
Overall, fantastic audiobook narration and a bit of humor at times, but an unlikeable main character, horribly portrayed female characters, and just not a story for me.
*Rating: 2 Stars // Read Date: 2021 // Format: Audiobook*
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But other reviewers aren't wrong, Sirius himself was misogynistic too. He seemed to think women were only good for sex. He cheated on the woman he was marrying on their wedding day. As soon as he met his teenage daughters, he immediately became overprotective of their innocence. I'm not sure if the reader was meant to think he was a good person and feel bad for him, since other characters would sometimes say he was a good person, and he seemed to think he was a good person, but I didn't feel at all bad when he got kidnapped and thrown into a dungeon. When the reader doesn't care that the main character has been thrown in a dungeon, that's not a good sign. He was kind of just The Worst. If it had just been him, I would have chalked it up to a character purposefully written as a jerk, but as I said, the book in general had issues, so I'm genuinely not sure if he was meant to be portrayed as a good person or not.
I did laugh on occasion. There were some funny moments, and the book had a light, humorous tone to it.
Mostly though, I just couldn't get into this. This book was really just about a man sleeping with a bunch of women, most of whom he had just met, getting married and divorced multiple times, and very occasionally getting into a fight or some other sort of trouble. And I wasn't invested enough in the character to stay interested. There wasn't even any vampire-ness to keep my attention. I probably would have DNFed if not for the audiobook. Speaking of...
I listened to the audiobook for this, and the narrator, Patrick Zeller, was fantastic! He sounded so natural and conversational in the way he talked, which suited the story perfectly. He was fantastic at accents too. I don't even know what his natural accent is, but he had a Spanish accent throughout this book and did various other accents for other characters. He really brought this story to life and made it better for me.
Overall, fantastic audiobook narration and a bit of humor at times, but an unlikeable main character, horribly portrayed female characters, and just not a story for me.
*Rating: 2 Stars // Read Date: 2021 // Format: Audiobook*
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