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Youngblood

By: Sasha Laurens
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Katie Koster
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High school sucks. Especially for the undead.

“This is the lesbian vampire boarding school story I've always needed, but it's smarter, nastier, and more fun than I ever could have dreamed."Kylie Schachte, author of You're Next

Kat Finn and her mother can barely make ends meet living among humans. Like all vampires, they must drink Hema, an expensive synthetic blood substitute, to survive, as nearly all of humanity has been infected by a virus that’s fatal to vampires. Kat isn’t looking forward to an immortal life of barely scraping by, but when she learns she’s been accepted to the Harcote School, a prestigious prep school that’s secretly vampires-only, she knows her fortune is about to change.

Taylor Sanger has grown up in the wealthy vampire world, but she’s tired of its backward, conservative values—especially when it comes to sexuality, since she’s an out-and-proud lesbian. She only has to suffer through a two more years of Harcote before she’s free. But when she discovers her new roommate is Kat Finn, she’s horrified. Because she and Kat used to be best friends, a long time ago, and it didn’t end well.

When Taylor stumbles upon the dead body of a vampire, and Kat makes a shocking discovery in the school’s archives, the two realize that there are deep secrets at Harcote—secrets that link them to the most powerful figures in Vampirdom and to the synthetic blood they all rely on.

©2022 Sasha Laurens (P)2022 Listening Library
Contemporary Fantasy Paranormal Thrillers & Suspense Fiction Young Adult Vampire

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Wow I really loved this book!! This is a great FF YA book. I was hesitant about the it having too much high school angst and drama, but it was perfect. Sasha Laurens wove this Vampire world with LGBTQ+ spin. Kat and Taylor both grew into independent thinking queer young women through the story. It is a ex friends to lovers FF paranormal romance. Stacy Gonzalez and Katie Koster did an incredible job narrating this book.

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astonishing

The narrating was perfect and the story even better. I loved every part couldn't stop relistening to it. utter perfection. Only downside, would have loved just a little more Taylor and kat moments. Otherwise it was amazing best book of the summer.

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Feel very seen

Thank you for articulating things that young me struggled to even organize in her own brain and heart and for this wonderful story. I love them. And great narration!

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Better than expected

I knew this was going to be a book that I would enjoy. I had seen that the book suggested so many times when on likewise, so I checked it out. this really did meet up to the hype that was given. I am glad I bought it so I can listen to it again.

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cute, fun, kinda campy

I loved this!!! it was cute, sweet, had a good message without being preachy, and was just generally a fun ride from start to finish

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Eh

The plot was very predictable. it was okay though. the characters were annoying, however.

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Maybe don't look to this story for gay vampires.

I understand the mixed reviews. Good start, slow middle, questionable lead up towards the climax. Also the reviews about the main characters being dense is accurate. I started to have a hard time knowing who to like as the story hit the midway point. I just feel like it's a bit mixed over all. The pacing was off. The story does keep your attention, but it could've been better. Also if you came here for slow build romance, look somewhere better. The romantic drama in this is complicated for no good reason. Also if you came looking for vampires, it's a little lack luster.

P.S. They talk too openly about secret stuff, and I just kept wanting them to get caught cus they earned it at this point.

P.P.S. Who ever thought the mean girl was worth befriending? Why was that even a thing?

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I LOVED IT

I wish more queer stories were like this, where yeah they're gay but there's also more to the story, they have stuff they gotta do that's not just about their romance and it makes it feel so much better to read a fantasy story where bad stuff happens not because they are lesbians

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Charming

This was super fun to listen to, especially with the two separate audio narrators! Highly recommend!!

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Interesting world building, obnoxious characters and unsatisfying relationship

I really wanted to enjoy this story more, the premise of a vampire boarding school with a WLW romance at the center seemed right up my alley, and I really did enjoy the setting and background, in fact I wanted to know even more about the world the author made. Unfortunately I found the main characters obnoxious, and lacking depth, and found myself more interested in the two secondary relationships (one of which wasn’t even between two women) and background characters in general than in the relationship that was clearly meant to be end goal. The main character was unlikable, preachy, and seemed to have little personality other than being morally and socially superior to everyone around her and parroting what was clearly the authors own views and opinions. And the main love interest was a self hating caricature of a lesbian, who somehow also knew nothing about the gay community other than “kiss girl, be oppressed and lonely.” I found myself wanting to learn more about the side character’s histories and thoughts, but instead had to endure the white main character talking about how there wasn’t enough people of color, gay, or trans characters in the school, while herself openly and repeatedly tokenizing one specific “student of color” and speaking for them about how oppressed and uncomfortable they looked surrounded by all the regular folks (again this is a white character who herself identifies as straight and cis for the majority of the book). I enjoyed the storyline resolution well enough, although found it a bit anticlimactic. But it was disappointing that the characters who where supposed to be the romance portion of the romance story didn’t even end up together until the last few chapters, and when they did the characters I found actually compelling where tossed aside and given unsatisfying and sad endings as if punishing them for daring to have relationships with the main characters who were clearly destined for one another.

Aside from the story itself, the performance of the reader was okay, not amazing but not unlistenable either. with my biggest issue being the way she chose to read what was supposed to be an endearing nickname? Habit? Joke? From the main love interest to the main character, although I think the author intended for it to be something cute that frustrated the main character but then grew on her, the way it was read was so cringeworthy and the frequency with which the author wrote it into the book, made me dread every time the two characters interacted, and took me out of the story quicker than the sudden preaching by the main character

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