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Blood Countess
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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A historical YA horror novel based on the infamous real-life inspiration for Countess Dracula In 17th century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Ba?thory. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she's vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants' quarters below. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the Countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante. It's not long before Anna falls completely under the Countess's spell--and the Countess takes full advantage. Isolated from her former friends, family, and fianc, Anna realizes she's not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel Elizabeth. Then come the murders, and Anna knows it's only a matter of time before the Blood Countess turns on her, too.
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Gissy
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A YA horror story based on the life of Elizabeth Bathory. The story is more related with legends around her “vampiric tendencies”. I liked the story but sometimes I found Anna too naive and unreal but...???...clever Anna😲It is a gory story.
3/3.5⭐️

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KateReadsYA I love this book. This post makes me want to do a reread 🥰 5mo
Gissy @KateReadsYA I was surprised how dark this book was for a YA story but it was perfect for October or when you feel to read a book with spooky vibes ☺️ 5mo
KateReadsYA @Gissy I definitely agree. I remember after reading it seeing it in the YA section and thinking man this is not in the right section and it actually was 😱 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 5mo
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BookwormAHN
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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I enjoyed this rather gory YA telling of the Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory. I'm not really sure how they pulled this off as YA. Anna feels a connection to Elizabeth as soon as she first meets her, then she joins her service. This whole book seems to be a cautionary tale of what happens when you fall for an over privileged sociopath 🐈‍⬛️
#BlackCatCrew #Scarathlon
#Witchathon @TEArificbooks
Day 5 #ScarathlonPhotoChallenge

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BookwormAHN
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Gissy
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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#Scarathlon Day 5 #blood 🩸

StayCurious Great choice! 6mo
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itsjustme40something
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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I honestly didn't expect much from this book, but it was a pleasant surprise. Despite it being a quick easy read it was still a good story

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Lauranahe
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Mehso-so

I‘m iffy on this one. I liked the premise of a girl going to work for Elizabeth Bathory. But, it was a little long, and the epilogue has me like 🤔 with how old the characters were.

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Nalbuque
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Very mixed feelings on this one, brace yourself and I‘ll try to explain. Most people prob came for Elizabeth Báthory (the real life historical serial killer and all around sadistic basket case), and stayed for Anna (the nice girl). I came for the love story. Legit. Felt like reading some sapphic book, picked this up thinking it was abt vampires (big lol).
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Nalbuque So you see, I was doomed to fail here. The book is actually good, I liked the writing (and narration), and the ambiance is pretty cool, kinda medieval, goth, bucolic. But I just couldn‘t take on another kill your gays story rn (I mean I didn‘t finish so I dno). I‘m not in the mood for more predatory lesbians, sad and tragic endings to their romance, and toxic queer representation. We don‘t need more of that. I might consider finishing it later tho 2y
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Sara_Planz
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Quarantine read #3. Went and got tested today as my exposure to my husband may have caught up with me.

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TheLibrarian
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Mehso-so

A YA historical horror book based off the real life Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was one of the most prolific female serial killers. This book had SO much potential but fell short. I was bored at times and wanted more.

This was one of my Tailored Books Recommendations #gettbr

FantasyChick I felt the same about this one. So much more could have been done with it. 3y
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BookishTrish
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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What gorgeous gifts @daisyheadmaesie Thank you!!! The book sleeve reminds me of one of my favourite picture books, Pumpkin Pumpkin and the candle smells heavenly! #creepyChristmas

paper.reveries I hope you enjoy the reads! And I‘m so glad you like the smell of the candle. I love that company! 3y
BookishTrish @daisyheadmaesie Cant wait to dive into these!!! 3y
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BookishMarginalia Love the Vivien Chen mysteries! So fun! 3y
teebe Ooh love that book sleeve! 3y
FantasyChick Oooooh look at that pretty candle 😍 3y
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witchyreader13
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Nicole texted me this morning that she had noticed a package for me downstairs on her way out. I had no idea what it was. I didn't recognize the company name, it wasn't marked as a #LitsySwap. I opened it up and apparently I won a contest at YallWrite! in November! Woo-hoo! My prizes were Blood Countess, Bookish Boyfriends: A Date With Darcy, In the Hall With the Knife, and an art print from Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi. 😍

AFrostCauseReads Hi, have you gotten any other packages? Maybe one marked #cc for #creepychristmas?? My tracking says it was delivered the 9th 🤔 3y
witchyreader13 @Charlene1321 Omg. I JUST finished posting about receiving it! I picked it up yesterday from my parents' place, but had to do some digging on Litsy to figure out who had sent it so I could let you know. Lol. 3y
AFrostCauseReads Yay! I‘m so glad it made it there safely!! And yeah, I realized I didn‘t put my Litsy handle on it 🙁 3y
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KateReadsYA
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book had me hooked from the Synopsis, I could not put it down! Everything about this book was just so Dark, Vile, and Wicked. 🍷

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NAM99
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Panpan

I was pretty excited about the book but ultimately, I was pretty bored with the book.

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The_Heeler_Booklife
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️
The beginning started off strong and promising, however as the book carried on it started to become slow and boring. Ana was naive and the relationship was unhealthy and had no substance to it. Also, the cruelty was not really there and there was no shock value. Also, the ending ended really easy.
#litsy #littens #bookstagram #bibliophile #twostars #pan #bloodcountess

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FantasyChick
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Mehso-so

I had a lot higher hopes for this. I think I had this book hyped up as more of a horror-style than what it actually was. Definitely more "dangerous romance" than "give me all the blood!".

Not a bad read but I'm glad I didn't buy it ?‍♀️

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vkois88
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Tagged by @Kshakal ❤️

1) LO and I like to go outside and see what animals we can find

2) Introvert

3) 6... the tagged book and Pucked by Helena Hunting were my favorites

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you!! I hope y‘all are safe and well ❤️❤️❤️ 4y
alisiakae 🌷💚 4y
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carmens.library
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Today's #socialdistancingbookhaul 📚 I can't wait to read these, but I'm torn between reading them right away or saving them to read in April during the #magicalreadathon ... Decisions, decisions. Anyone read either of these? #bloodcountess #themidnightlie

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JenniferEgnor
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The sky is fracturing with dawn when I come to my feet, rising reborn and newly forged. No longer caring if she kills me, nor what miserable and I shall come to once she‘s finished with her games. As long as I can somehow take her with me at the end. Wrestle her, screaming, into the deepest pit of hell.

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JenniferEgnor
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It is only when the moon tears a hole in night‘s black fabric, letting in the light, that I relax a little and allow myself to breathe.

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JenniferEgnor
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She is prepared to sacrifice them all for the sake of something so inconsequential as beauty. Which is fleeting by nature and design, meant to desert us all.

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JenniferEgnor
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My dreams become a cruel land that may as well be the fairies‘ realm, populated by long – faced wraiths that caper about me and yank at my hair, gabbling nonsense in my ears.

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JenniferEgnor
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As if she‘s become an instrument of an unholy thing, a bloodthirsty deity working through her hands – perhaps even the thing she calls her choler. And for the first time I find myself aghast, truly terrified of her.

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JenniferEgnor
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I eat and drink until my head spins, indulging in a compote of spiced pears, crumbled apple cake, root vegetables glazed with honey and citron, and so much wine that the room seems to drip around me like tallow, softening at the edges.

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JenniferEgnor
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So this, then, is desire. Implacablr and all-consuming, a ravenous maelstrom that obliterates even the memory of modesty and restraint...could not have fathomed that it would feel like such a delicious, honeyed madness.
No wonder it makes fools of men.

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JenniferEgnor
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A black, terrible suspicion crawls up my throat like a spider, threatening to choke me.

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JenniferEgnor
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I cross myself by rote, with trembling fingers. While I do not think God bothers with our pleas, I believe in the devil‘s work. And right now, it feels dreadfully close at hand.

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JenniferEgnor
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And that is when it hits me; this rampant silence, the utter absence of sound, as if all the birds around our home have choked on their own breath. This silence is wrong, too abundant and unbroken.

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JenniferEgnor
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She smells just as I remember, of dark, luxuriant flowers I do not recognize.

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JenniferEgnor
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What a brutal thing it is...the way you must hurt to heal.

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JenniferEgnor
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We hold vigil over the boy through the night, which seems to unfurl like some endless flower, hours unfolding after hours like black petals without end. It is one of the longest I have ever known.

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vkois88
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I‘ve been in a slump so it took a while for me to finish this... but it was SO good. Dark and gritty. Can‘t wait to see which Lady Slayer the author picks to write about!

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IheartYA
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Original, bold and bloody brilliant. I was on the fence about reading this one so I was surprised to like it so much. The story keeps moving, and the world building makes you feel like you're right there in it. I enjoyed the writing overall; sometimes it was great, other times it muddled the context. The Countess was horribly infuriating and I really felt bad for the characters. Jump over the fence and read this one!

KarouBlue Gorgeous photo! 4y
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ralexist
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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The Countess of Bathory's story is primarily a shell for this novel but her particular characterization isn't novel in and of itself. The abusee becomes the abuser in the extreme and we witness it via the bystander. It's a good addition to the YA horror story arena if only to serve as a jumping off point for further learning about this figure, but I would've liked to see more of this historical world.

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SassenachTheBookWizard
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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THIS IS THE DARK SHIT I SIGNED UP FOR! I've read a fair number of books in the past year or two that promised darker tones and fucking with some messed up parts of history. None of them were bad but none of them gave me the dark themes/tones I was promised...but this DID. Big hell yeah to this from start to finish AND THEN IT'S A DAMN SERIES SO I AM GETTING MORE! BIGGEST OF HELL YES TO THAT.

Cailey_Mac Finally! I‘m so sick of books being called “dark” or “revenge tales” and it turns into a fluffy ending. 4y
SassenachTheBookWizard @Cailey_Mac yeah no Luke half the cast gets murdered lol 4y
Pumpkinandegg313 You have made this sound very intriguing. I will have to take a look. I'm all for the "unhappily ever after" ?? 4y
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SassenachTheBookWizard
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This is one of my most anticipated releases of the year so 🤞

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simpledutchgirl
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Sometimes you don't see a person for who they really are until its too late and the damage is done. How can one so beautiful be so cruel and merciless. How can you survive when your life is at her command?

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AlizaApp
Blood Countess | Lana Popovic
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Mehso-so

Picked up this ARC at Yallfest. I was excited because queer female serial killer! But I wished for more character development, and Anna wishing to remain ignorant for a long time meant there was less bathing in blood than I would have been led to believe. It did make me want to read more about Bathory though.

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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About a famous murderer in hungry. The main POV was a village girl, so there was less murder and bathing and blood then I expected. Still fun.