I started reading this but at 100 pages I was still feeling really lost when it came to the story.
Reading the reviews I realised that this is part of a series, which wasn't mentioned when I requested it from netgalley.

The writing is very different as well, not easy to understand. But that's a me problem.

If you're into avant garde sort of books and like a bit of spice this book might be right for you. For me unfortunately was a dnf.

Thank you to Netgalley and Clash books for providing me and ARC copy of this book for my honest review.

This is the first time I DNF an arc read. I made it 30% and it took me a week to get there. I wanted to love this book, I really genuinely did but instead I'm sitting here not being able to read another page.

The description of the book made me incredibly intrigued and drawn in, not to mention the cover art is gorgeous... But that's about all the good reviews I can give on it.

First and foremost "yr" is used instead of the word "your". The way it's written made me genuinely feel like either chat gpt gone rogue or the author wanted to use as many pretentious words as possible in what I can only describe as "word stew" as it seemed jumbled and thrown together last minute.

I came to read other reviews just to see if this was just me and seeing others feel the same makes me feel less horrible about it.

I even waited to read this as one of my pride month reads and as someone in the community I hate that I have to be so harsh and put this in writing but I promised and honest review and honesty is the best policy in this case.

Again I thank y'all for the ARC read and I'm truly sorry that this was a hard no for me. I will state these are my opinions and if you enjoy the book that's fantastic! I however am left disappointed with a book that I was so excited about.

while reading i got very confused with the prose and i felt as if I had been missing something and reread it. this might not be a standalone so that could be why I was confused or just the way it was written. I did like the passion and longing in some stories but it didn't mean much to me.

thank you to Netgalley and Clash Books for this eArc

Thanks to NetGalley and CLASH Books for an ARC of Beyond the Planet of the Vampires in exchange for an honest review.

i gave this book 2 stars because unfortunately i didn’t connect with it very much. Based on the cover and description i thought i would love it and had high expectations for it but it honestly just kinda fell flat for me. This book definitely has its lovers out there but it’s just not me sadly

I really enjoyed reading this book, it had that erotic vampire element that I was hoping for and enjoyed from this type of book. The concept was so well written and was invested from the first page. Ulrich Baer was able to weave a strong story and that the characters worked overall in this universe. It had that horror element that I was looking for and was engaged with how everything worked in the concept.

Thanks to NetGalley and CLASH Books for an ARC of Beyond the Planet of the Vampires in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: 2/5

Unfortunately, this one didn't quite work for me. I had high hopes based on both the cover and the description. While I wanted to get lost in the story, I found it a bit challenging to fully immerse myself. Additionally, the use of "yr" instead of "your" took me out of the experience.

Honestly hard to follow and just didn't pull me in like I thought it would. From the spelling of your as yr to a plot and premise that seems to fall short this just wasn't a book that kept my attention.

This might be the fastest I've ever DNF'd a book -- I think I made it maybe 5-6 pages before calling it quits. The writing is shooting for esoteric and artistic but ends up being stuffy, overblown, and entirely convinced of its own genius. If you thought Skinamarink was a work of art, you'll probably like this.

This book had so much potential for me with the cover and the blurb being so captivating, yet it didn't deliver much hope in that regard. It is a book that's described to be an "erotic vampiric nightmare that reads like a Jodrowsky film playing in a 50s drive in theatre" but comes off like a pretentious cinephile's phone-notes-poetry art project. But I should say, delivers on the avant-garde nightmare department very well.

Beyond the Planet of Vampires had initially captivated me with its poetic approach and visual language yet lost me as quickly as it had captivated through the same poetic nature. The language got stale in my eyes faster than I thought and made me realise why having an overly flowery tongue in writing can tire the reader. There is an image that's kept strong by the language, which was what kept me reading, but the hustle and bustle of the overwhelming language kept the mental tone of it down. Some sentences and the choice of words felt out of place in the somewhat "sophisticated" structure of the narration. It's both current, old, and futuristic at once and not in positive regard.

The format is very interesting, and coupled with the premise that gives the image of an avant-garde nightmare, I was very excited when I started the book. It was completely shadowed by the effort of the language and the loss of intent in the titles and the structures. After a while, it was hard to see the intention behind the titles and the positioning of text and the story that's supposed to move behind.

It wasn't an enjoyable experience.

What's worse is that when I logged in to make my review on Goodreads, I came to learn that supposedly this was a third in a trilogy when there's no other books listed under the author's name nor stated in the blurb of the book itself.

Needless to say, to close this off, I am very disappointed by this read.

This was definitely unique and at times the prose was beautiful but unfortunately it just didn’t work for me and I DNF’d

A bizarre little book that’s determined to get under your skin, BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES blues boundaries and genres to create something unique.

I may have been hoping for too much from this one going into it. It's not bad.
It's just not what I was hoping for.
Things seemed stretched at times trying to prove a point.
Meh

sometimes a little hard to follow but overall a really fun read. to be fair from the cover alone i was sold on this. would definitely recommend to any horror obsessed readers out there

This is an ambitious and intellectually rich book, but it’s a tough one to follow. Baer dives deep into horror, trauma, and film theory, often with dense language that feels more academic than accessible. While the ideas are compelling, the structure and prose make it hard to stay engaged.

i was super excited to this one, i love a good queer horror story. this is my first experience with an avant-guard novel so i had no idea what to expect. the writing really took me by surprise. it was poetic, strange, and really intriguing. i felt like half the time i had no idea what was going on yet i could not put it down.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
I will say, this was a very interesting read even if I did not care or understand it for the most part. I think you really need to be into experimental writing for this, which is totally valid. I loved the queer aspect of the story for sure. I wish I knew what was truly happening throughout the whole novel, but I really just took it one page at a time. I think I wanted more horror from it, too.

You should give it a try, but know that this is not a book that will be for everyone.

I honestly couldn’t tell you if this book has a plot and if it does, I dodged it entirely. There are some beautiful quotes to be found in this but other than that, it’s mostly just gay sex but make it artistic.

I sadly didn't care for this book. I felt like the author was trying to do way to much like they just didn't quite know what they wanted to do.

Queer horror that reads like 1950s pulp. a very enjoyable read. if you like the avante garde and more experimental writing styles this may be just for you!
at times it really worked for me and other times- word choices kind of lost me especially since the story is a series of vignettes rather than a full chronological “novel.”

Fun, but definitely something you may need to mentally prep for before diving head first into!

The author writes "your" as "yr". Let that sink in for a second before you continue reading this review.

This is avant-garde...risky...experimental... and it didn't really work for me.

The lyrical, poetry aspect of the book had the potential to be interesting. But the writing itself feels like a word vomit stew. Excessive use of very obscure words to the point that it felt like I was reading from a thesaurus. And the novel is presented as a series of vignettes, so I thought with that combined with the writing style that it made to story very hard to follow.

I appreciate the attempt at trying something risky, and there were certain aspects of it I did like, but ultimately this wasn't for me. I've seen some other high reviews though so I'm sure there's an audience out there that is going to love this book.