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In the Forests of the Night
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
This book is... strange. I read when I was only barely younger than the author (okay, I am still only about three years younger than the author, but I was reading it the same age she wrote it and only just down the road from where it's set) and I loved it totally. I still prefer her vampire/vampire hunter books to a lot of other vampire novels, but they're definitely peculiar and the early ones are the work of a very, very young writer--but a talented one. I started writing because of this book (let's talk power of representation and validation of young female voices in literature, yo) and I am still inescapably fond. Risika tells her own story, and her relationship with the tiger is still one of my favorite things; and (spoiler!) the end of it breaks my heart even as an adult.