A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
- Publisher: Nyx Publishing, January 31st 2021
- Genre: Fantasy, Horror
- Format: Ebook (eARC)
- Page Count: 248 pages
- My Rating: ★★★★ (4/5)
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Content warnings: blood, death, bones, gore, murder, loss of family, burning, plague, war, manipulation, emotional abuse, depression, sexism, cutting, confinement, isolation
What is it like to be in a relationship with the same vampire for centuries?
A Dowry of Blood read almost epistolarily, perhaps a nod to the original Dracula story. The book opens with “you” (think Dracula, but never named) bleeding to death, seemingly killed by the first-person character Constanta. Divided into three parts, each part tells the history of where “you” find each new lover—Constanta, Magdalena, Alexi—over the last few centuries.