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kathleencoughlin's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Confinement, Stalking, and Suicide attempt
amandall's review against another edition
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder
30something_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I'm still trying to figure out my full feelings about the ending but overall, this was gorgeous. The narrative structure was really compelling- I could not stop reading!
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A sweeping journey from the Old World to modern day Buenos Aires, this story is told in two parts from two very different women.
The first half of the narrative is told through the eyes of a centuries old vampire as we follow her journey from her violent conception and across the world to Buenos Aires for a new beginning.
The second half is told through the eyes of a modern day woman in Buenos Aires as she navigates her career, motherhood, and the inevitable loss of her own mother to a terminal illness.
Two seemingly unconnected stories slowly begin to intertwine in a haunting, obsessive tale about grief, female agency, and desire.
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All of the dark, gothic, sapphic vampire vibes that I was hoping to get out of AEoM- I got them here.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Terminal illness
Minor: Confinement, Sexual content, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic
sarahweyand's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
I love reading translated fiction whenever I can, and queer vampire horror seemed like a really fun place to start this year. I really, really liked the first 50% of this book. I found the atmosphere and characters to be compelling, and I wanted to know more about our protagonist. It felt like a vampire placed into a historical fiction novel. I enjoyed the setting in Buenos Aires as a place I hadn't read a lot of in fiction and I was ready to give this book four or so stars.
And then we get to halfway-ish through the novella, where the time and point of view change drastically and the book becomes much more of a literary drama. Unfortunately, I couldn't really bring myself to care about a new set of characters and their problems when I had been so interested in the other ones. I understand how everything ties together, but it just wasn't my favorite.
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Confinement and Suicide attempt
herelieshenry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Suicide, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Child death, Confinement, Racism, and Classism
Dental trauma