Yes, yessss, this was just the kind of self-indulgent nonsense I like. The only way it could have been better is if it was gay.

I have seen a decent amount of criticism leveling the accusation that this book is all smut with no plot, but I don't think that's accurate. The ratio of smutty events vs non-smutty events is fairly low, but I suspect it feels higher to a lot of people because the plot is so predictable that you can skim through it at breakneck speed.

The whole plot about the witch hunts of hundreds of years ago,

Isolde being the reincarnation of one of the witches who was Adrian's true love

, etc etc is telegraphed so hard that there is no mystery whatsoever even the first time around, and therefore I somewhat strangely found this horror-fantasy book about vampires and witch hunts to be a rather comforting reading experience.