thunderdone 's review for:

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

3.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I feel like I really only needed half of this book. The point of view change didn't do a whole lot for me, but also I don't want to discredit it in case (since I know it was translated) different cultures have different, common narrative structures that I haven't been exposed to before. I was really intrigued the first half; putting a vampire in a pandemic is a really interesting situation, and I liked

the betrayal she faced at the hands of the doctor after killing his brother

. When it switched to the modern day, everything fell kind of flat. I didn't feel like the new narrator had much in terms of a foil to the vampire, and while I like the ending of

she needs the vampire's help to put her mother to rest

, it took a while to get there and they didn't have much of a relationship after that.