3.5 - very middle-of-the-road vamp horror imo. i think epistolary horror has a lot of potential but is hard to do well, which is one of this book’s weaknesses b/c the voices/tones of each POV just isn’t distinctive enough for me. one of the things i love abt vamp horror is its anticapitalist potential, which this book also doesn’t live up to. it blatantly does the tiniest bit of anticapitalist stuff but it’s not actually inherent to or rooted in the plot or characters. speaking of which, this is almost entirely plot-driven — there are a lot of characters but none of them are really interesting or have a meaningful arc. i had fun, but if i wasn’t interested in vampires i don’t think i really would’ve. also, this didn’t really hit the marks of a horror for me.