Buffy meets Caraval: The Cruel Illusions

Hello lemonades 🍋

Today review is on a book that gives off Buffy the vampire slayer meets Cavaral vibes.

🧛Book: Cruel Illusions (standalone)

🧛Genre:

Fantasy

Magical realism

🧛Trope:

Found family

Revenge

🧛If you like ~ you may like this book

The Night Circus

Caraval

Hotel Magnifique

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

🧛Short synopsis:

Group of magician that hunt vampire because vampire drink magician blood to stay magical and the origin of vampire related to blood magic.

However, to be a magician you must go through some kind of test/competition like a little Hunger Game.

🧛My thoughts:

It was quite slow in the beginning and the world building is scarce and I had to patch it together.

I love the concept of the story and vampire hunting remind me of Angel, a series I watched during childhood back in 90s.

The plot series was nice and able to amaze to actually read this book until the end.

Have you read any vampire book recently?

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