Certain Dark Things

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It helps that each of Moreno-Garcia’s vampire clans is tied to a specific (and not always Transylvanian) culture and locale. The only reason he’s arrived in Mexico City is to murder Atl, who turned down his advances shortly before he murdered her family. This was by far my favorite element of the book, and though not feasible based on the story she was trying to tell, I kept hoping we would see appearances from even more variants. The interesting aspect of this vampire novel is that it doesn’t offer the same old tired tropes we know from all those European vampire stories we know.

From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic, comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore.Atl’s and Domingo’s backstories were trickled out to the reader, although I wish she had gone a little deeper into the characterizations. It crosses an interesting line of dark fantasy, horror and even a noir thriller and yet offers something that feels uniquely its own thing while paying homages to the genres it clearly loves.

These are not your typical bloodsuckers, and I'd be willing to give the author another shot at a vampire book that didn't focus on these particular characters and plot lines. He looked down when those boys went by, his hair falling over his face, and they didn’t see him, because nobody saw him. Domingo tossed a bottle into a plastic bag, then paused to observe the patrons eating at a restaurant.What similarities did you notice between attempts to eradicate vampires in the book and attempts to eradicate a pandemic in real life?