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Certain Dark Things

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She manages to blend together multiple genres to make a dark and sometimes gruesome novel, that any horror fans will be sure to love. Certain Dark Things packs a wallop * Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts * With its vibrant prose and stellar world-building, Certain Dark Things is one of the best books I've read in years * V.

Her plan doesn’t include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. It’s from here the story starts to run at break neck speed, evolvling into Moreno-Garcia’s dubbing of ‘neon noir’.That book is a very 90’s take on vampires, between the grungy, dirty aesthetic to the more experimental writing but wher the book was equal parts the story, the set up of the supernatural/vampires and the relationships between the characters. Also, a sidenote: It wasn’t until I was several chapters into the book that I remembered I played a Mexican vigilante detective vampire in the last Vampire: The Masquerade game I played in, so, like, bonus I guess?

Domingo is willing to put it all on the line to help Atl, but will his loyalty, optimism, and street kid smarts be enough to keep her safe in a world where so many powerful people want her dead? There’s easily enough unexplored stuff in there to make for a sequel, if the author ever felt like it. Vampires from every culture in the world -- dozens of subspecies -- have fled to Mexico because it has some of the least restrictive laws against blood-suckers.One of my favorite books by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and one of my all-time favorite horror books…Certain Dark Things will make you think about vampires in a whole new way. But what Domingo doesn’t yet know is that Atl is being hunted—by another vampire clan known as Necros, as well as the local authorities. As well as this she explains how different countries dealt with the realisation of Vampires, and how exactly they came to be expelled from Mexico City.

I’m not someone who’s ever needed much motivation to pick up a vampire story after all, and after learning that one of the main characters is a descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, I was even more intrigued. 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. Her plan doesn't include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. Atl aims to keep Domingo as her living blood bag but quickly realizes she needs Domingo’s street smarts when a brutal murder links the killer to vampires.When the police force refuses to give her the authority and resources she needs and one of the local crime syndicates offers to fill that void, Ana has to compromise her morals and make some tough decisions. 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. 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. He had a proper place to sleep now, and lately he collected junk for an important rag-and-bone man, focusing on gathering used thermoplastic clothing. Certain Dark Things is the perfect blend of fantasy, horror and noir, with vivid characters and set in a Mexico City that became a character in and of itself.



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