Sign in with Facebook
Eskay's Reviews > Lost Souls
Lost Souls
by
by
one word: yikes!
i know this is some gay vampire fantasy novel but OH BOY, women sure do get a short straw in this book. there are two vaguely important female characters (and even then they probably take up 5% of the whole book combined) and they both die because they get pregnant? in this world it seems women only exist so they can get knocked up with gay vampires so the other gay vampires can have sex with them. but when we say sex... this book really wants to be ~*edgy~* with all the death and blood and vomit and incest but none of the male characters ever actually have full penetrative sex, they mostly just do a lot of kissing (with lots of tongues - so many descriptions of the inside of people's mouths in this)
also wow some great racism here, where they eat someone of indian origin and her blood is spicy and exotic. also a lot of dodgy weight stuff, with all the main characters being very under-weight and lots of descriptions of their ribs and hips bones jutting out of their skin. AND there are multiple references to self harming scars in character descriptions alongside their clothes, so they read like accessories.
basically so much bad, but really what to you expect from a early 90's goth fantasy?
ps. there is so much dodgy stuff in this novel that i forgot that the protagonist (and basically the 'hero') rapes his girlfriend at one point. i think it's to show how ~*tortured~* he is, but again, just a big ol' bucket of yikes from me.
i know this is some gay vampire fantasy novel but OH BOY, women sure do get a short straw in this book. there are two vaguely important female characters (and even then they probably take up 5% of the whole book combined) and they both die because they get pregnant? in this world it seems women only exist so they can get knocked up with gay vampires so the other gay vampires can have sex with them. but when we say sex... this book really wants to be ~*edgy~* with all the death and blood and vomit and incest but none of the male characters ever actually have full penetrative sex, they mostly just do a lot of kissing (with lots of tongues - so many descriptions of the inside of people's mouths in this)
also wow some great racism here, where they eat someone of indian origin and her blood is spicy and exotic. also a lot of dodgy weight stuff, with all the main characters being very under-weight and lots of descriptions of their ribs and hips bones jutting out of their skin. AND there are multiple references to self harming scars in character descriptions alongside their clothes, so they read like accessories.
basically so much bad, but really what to you expect from a early 90's goth fantasy?
ps. there is so much dodgy stuff in this novel that i forgot that the protagonist (and basically the 'hero') rapes his girlfriend at one point. i think it's to show how ~*tortured~* he is, but again, just a big ol' bucket of yikes from me.
Sign into Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to see if any of your friends have read
Lost Souls.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
October 24, 2019
–
Started Reading
October 24, 2019
– Shelved
October 28, 2019
–
Finished Reading
Comments Showing 1-2 of 2 (2 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Jamie
(new)
-
added it
May 16, 2023 05:03PM
I know this review is a few years old, but thought I’d reply. The vampires being described as being underweight, and bones jutting out their skin would likely haven from PZB’s body dysmorphia. Dysmorphia that they later realised was actually dysphoria. It’s why PZB’s characters are mostly androgynous too.
reply
|
flag
I won’t argue about anything, but I’m like� say 90% sure the reason there’s no penetrative sex whatsoever is possibly got to do with the time it got released on. It was the 90’s, so I doubt anything like that would have made it through the editorial process. I know later works by PZB would have to jump through many rejections and censorship, with Dell (the publisher of his first three works) refusing to publish Exquisite Corpse and him having to fight hard for the Rickey and G-Man series.
