Certain Dark Things

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It's set in Mexico City, exploring the darker, dirtier corners of the city: the subway tunnels, warehouses where dog fights take place, poor apartment complexes, heck she even takes us to a landfill.

A feud between her clan and the Godoy’s, a rival Vampire gang, ended in the death of Atl’s mother and sister and led to her running for her life. Atl and her family are Tlāhuihpochtli, a type of bird-shifter vampires derived from Nahua folklore that are considered the indigenous vampire species of Mexico.Our protagonist Atl sprouts wings and can transform at will; she also resembles a hummingbird when she feeds. balanced on a knife-edge between hope and horror * The Guardian * Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a chameleon of an author . This one looked like a man who worked selling life insurance, a man who opened and closed his briefcase dozens of times during the day, handing out pamphlets and explanations. It helps that each of Moreno-Garcia’s vampire clans is tied to a specific (and not always Transylvanian) culture and locale. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's writing is unforgettable * Christina Henry, author of Alice and The Ghost Tree * Silvia Moreno-Garcia carves out the heart of Mexico City, and then eats it, in this riveting noir-punk reinvention of vampire lore.

I’m thrilled to see Moreno-Garcia getting the attention she deserves, and I love reading a book like this that brings in cultural and mythological elements that are foreign to me. There’s so much to enjoy about Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s vampire noir novel, that it’s a disappointment to feel so unsatisfied by the book as a whole.Overall I enjoyed Certain Dark Things, and I think it’s a vampire novel wrote reading if you want some diversity in that genre. It was just like with the regular passengers; Domingo melted into the tiles, the grime, the shadows. While all these characters play a pivotal part in the story and add to the atmosphere and tension, Certain Dark Things is Atl and Domingo’s story. It was easy because few of them paid attention to the teenager leaning against the wall, backpack dangling from his left shoulder.