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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Una novela bien escrita, con una rescritura del mito vampírico desde el arquetipo femenino, migrante hacia el sur de América en la Buenos Aires de fin de siglo XIX. La narrativa se me hizo plana por momentos, y tal vez por eso las dos primeras personas que narran me parecieron similares, sin mayores matices. Hay un trabajo sobresaliente en la descripción fundacional de Buenos Aires, un transfondo muy interesante en la historia.
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If like me you’ve been feeling like the vampire sub genre has become samey and are searching for that something different, then pick up Thirst. The author will prove to you that there is still a lot of ground to cover!
Horror fiction is my drug. It gives me something. It takes me out of my normal, everyday life. For during the time I’m reading, I don’t need to think about my worries, it takes my head into a relaxing place- even if that’s reading about serial killers. Hey, don’t mock it until you’ve tried it!
Thirst is built around grief and the impact it has on two women at two different points in their lives. We know what it’s like. How I react now when I’m almost forty is completely different to how I’d have reacted in my twenties. In the nineteenth century the reader is introduced to female vampire who travels to Buenos Aires to navigates the rising difficulties that being immortal has brought. The conditions she has to embrace with rising cases of yellow fever has her in a tight fog. The author brilliantly captivates the harsh reality of her situation.
In today’s Buenos Aires Alma grapples with her mother’s declining health. A single mother, she also struggles walking the tightrope of expectation, Their paths cross when Alma inherits the key to the vampire’s eternal resting place.
Thirst is flawless and taut and so beautifully written. I’m a seasoned horror reader and I was left clutching my pearls and gasping out loud, captivated at the delicate innotations of the authors prose. It has the power to take you by surprise and you just have to let it!
Horror fiction is my drug. It gives me something. It takes me out of my normal, everyday life. For during the time I’m reading, I don’t need to think about my worries, it takes my head into a relaxing place- even if that’s reading about serial killers. Hey, don’t mock it until you’ve tried it!
Thirst is built around grief and the impact it has on two women at two different points in their lives. We know what it’s like. How I react now when I’m almost forty is completely different to how I’d have reacted in my twenties. In the nineteenth century the reader is introduced to female vampire who travels to Buenos Aires to navigates the rising difficulties that being immortal has brought. The conditions she has to embrace with rising cases of yellow fever has her in a tight fog. The author brilliantly captivates the harsh reality of her situation.
In today’s Buenos Aires Alma grapples with her mother’s declining health. A single mother, she also struggles walking the tightrope of expectation, Their paths cross when Alma inherits the key to the vampire’s eternal resting place.
Thirst is flawless and taut and so beautifully written. I’m a seasoned horror reader and I was left clutching my pearls and gasping out loud, captivated at the delicate innotations of the authors prose. It has the power to take you by surprise and you just have to let it!
dark
emotional
sad
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel so frustrated by this book! The book spends too much time description the murderous temptations of the vampire, pivots to another woman’s life struggles, and then merges the two in the final third of the book — extremely clumsily and inconsistently with the rest of the plot. I felt as if the plot development was written by another author who had not read the first part. I wish it wasn’t so jumbled and so smashed together so incoherently. I was waiting for the movement where things would tie together but in the end it was just one knot.
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I hovered around a 3.5-4 on this book but landed on a 4. I thoroughly enjoyed it… was left a little disappointed by the ending of it but felt that that didn’t take away from the rest of it.
“Maria‘s” store had me in a chokehold, I was very into it, super atmospheric, hot, crazy, I loved the animalistic way she was written and it made me realize I should probably read more gothic horror.
Alma’s story was sad, it brought me back to my own experiences, particularly around death and all the reflection that comes from it.
The synopsis made me think there would be way more crossover of their stories than there was, and I think it would’ve been a 5 star read if I had gotten that from this book, but I liked their individual stories enough that I’ll let it slide this time.
(Also not sure if I agree with Alma’s choice In the end…)
“Maria‘s” store had me in a chokehold, I was very into it, super atmospheric, hot, crazy, I loved the animalistic way she was written and it made me realize I should probably read more gothic horror.
Alma’s story was sad, it brought me back to my own experiences, particularly around death and all the reflection that comes from it.
The synopsis made me think there would be way more crossover of their stories than there was, and I think it would’ve been a 5 star read if I had gotten that from this book, but I liked their individual stories enough that I’ll let it slide this time.
(Also not sure if I agree with Alma’s choice In the end…)
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated