I’m reading a second book over 1000 pages this year, called Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. The book is full of exceptionally powerful vampires that are quickly turning humans extinct.

The main character says that the vampires are people free from consequences. Not facing consequences is what makes them evil, not the vampirism (well, at least for now). It clicked with me because it makes total sense in a world where people compete to be as free from consequences as possible, yet the consequences are everywhere.

I have the feeling this book will get 5*, if I manage to read the whole thing.