Book 59, 2024
Eight Lives by Autumn Breeze
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Finished off an ebook last night. It was Eight Lives by Autumn Breeze (Seriously?!) and Ashley Chamblee. Story is told in alternating points of view of the main characters, Anselm the vampire, and Edmund the...catboy, I guess.
One hundred years ago, a dark witch cursed Edmund to an immortal life as a cat. He was found on the streets by the vampire, Anselm, and the two have lived together ever since. When Edmund suddenly transforms back into a human (with cat ears and tail), they realize the witch who cursed him must have died. Edmund isn't sure he wants to be human again, not if it means he will age and die, leaving Anselm behind. For his part, Anselm worries about what the future holds for Edmund. Together, they embark on a search for another dark witch who can cast the curse again, and Edmund must decide if he wants to return to being an immortal cat and companion or a mortal man and lover.
Not sure what to think of this. There really wasn't much of a plot. It's hard to assign it a genre, too. There was no mystery, although the authors could have made one of it in regards to what happened to the witch who cursed Edmund. Since they'd been together for a century, there was no meet-cute to kick off a romance. Frankly, it read like catboy fanfiction. I've read and enjoyed catboy fanfiction before, but I knew what I was getting at the onset. This was just sort of meandering and pointless. Characterizations were rather flat, and I was somewhat nonplussed by how tiny Edmund was. He often sat on Anselm's lap or was carried around by him, which...meh.
Favorite line: Maybe she hadn't believed me when I told her my immortal, cursed cat was broken.
Lackluster--two stars