Certain Dark Things

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Which brings us to Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things, which may be one of the best books I’ve read with such a generic title. It's set in Mexico City, exploring the darker, dirtier corners of the city: the subway tunnels, warehouses where dog fights take place, poor apartment complexes, heck she even takes us to a landfill. Author: Moreno-Garcia, Silvia Thriller / suspense Published on 1 September 2022 by Quercus Publishing (Jo Fletcher Books) in the United Kingdom. The novel has many mature themes, much violence, and strong language, but it all helps create a wonderful urban world filled with danger and suspense. We’ve seen sparkly ones, horny teenage vamps, ones that live in abandoned castles, but for the most part they’ve all been based on the European standard for vampires.

Once the daughter of a powerful family of Tlāhuihpochtli—the subspecies of vampires once worshiped by the Aztec—she’s now an orphan on the run from the rival band of Necros vampires that killed her family. Moreno-Garcia takes advantage of Mexico City’s status as a sprawling metropolis with centuries of history and a vibrant street culture. Overall I enjoyed Certain Dark Things, and I think it’s a vampire novel wrote reading if you want some diversity in that genre. Domingo’s life on the street made him the perfect person to become a Vampire’s assistant, his desperation for solidity, for something regular ensures his loyalty, and while Atl does take advantage of this, she also see’s the strength in it. Or, to say it differently, if she wrote a book about Mexican vampires now, after having written something as fantastic as Mexican Gothic, it would be a much stronger book.With vampire fiction making a bit of a resurgance and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, justly, gaining in popularity, I believe it was a smart decision.

Mexican Gothic is the only Moreno-Garcia book I’ve read so far and like you I thought it was fantastic. And what’s done really well is the information about how each one differs and how it’s told to the reader but never at the cost of the urgency of the storys plot. What similarities did you notice between attempts to eradicate vampires in the book and attempts to eradicate a pandemic in real life?We get to meet a fair amount of them, at least 3 of those listed in the glossary added with this reprinting of the book. Set in a beautifully and heartbreakingly rendered Mexico caught up in Narco-Vampire wars, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel lets us fall in love with many perspectives before she breaks our hearts and puts us back together again. Please note, we're talking the dangerous, brutal kind of vampires, not the sparkling, romantic ones. When he finally meets a real-life vampire, though, he learns they’re nothing like the depictions in pop culture.

There were gangs roaming the subway lines, gangs of kids about his age, with their tight jeans and baseball caps, rowdy and loud and for the most part dedicated to petty crimes.Silvia Moreno-Garcia brings lots of new ideas to the table while still hitting on all the beats that make vampire stories so popular. Para una persona que no es muy fan de los vampiros como yo, acabé enganchadísima con el universo que la autora imagina con sus diferentes razas, peculiaridades y voces. Yes, I’m back reviewing ANOTHER Moreno-Garcia book and I’m sure you will all be shocked when I say I loved it.