Reading This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1)

Read online This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1).pdf PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, DOC This Ravenous Fate (This Ravenous Fate, #1) *Thank you to the publisher via Netgalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review*So, before I get into the meat of my review, I'd like to say that I think Hayley Dennings shows a lot of promise as an author. There were multiple moments throughout the book where the writing really shined. I feel like both the premise and the setting were very interesting, plus I liked the exploration of race, class, and privilege.That being said, I had a really rough time with this one. It started out pretty promising, but ultimately this was a very uneven and frustrating reading experience. There were multiple reasons for this. This biggest, however, was within the chapters themselves. The story follows two POVs--Layla and Elise. This would be fine normally, but these POV switches happen within the same chapter. There are times when this can work. Usually that would be when the author wants to show a particular moment that happens in the same chapter from two different POVs. Unfortunately, that wasn't quite what happened in this book. The POV switches within each chapter often felt random and confusing. This had the unfortunate effect of affecting the pacing. Poignant moments between characters never really felt like they had a chance to make an impact. A moment with Elise would then switch to a moment with Layla that didn't really seem to have anything to do with Elise, then the POV would switch back to Elise and characters in that POV that had previously seemed like they'd been in a good mood suddenly switched to angry and hostile. It was jarring. It made it seem like I'd missed out on a good chunk of what happened in the interim by switching to Layla's POV.The bulk of this could've been avoided by making each chapter contained to a single POV, rather than hopping around. It would've made the story feel slightly more cohesive, too, though I still think this book would suffer a little from pacing issues--especially towards the end. I also think that some of the world-building needed to be delivered through a different means rather than info-dumping in conversations between characters. It would've made the world feel more exploratory and given the reader a little trust from the author to piece things together themselves. Again, I do think there's potential here, but it's not really enough to get me interested in continuing on with the story. Unfortunately, I never really got fully invested in the world or the characters. However, I do think if you're interested, it's worth picking up to get a different view on vampires or if you enjoy queer friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance by Hayley Dennings