Silvia Moreno-Garcia's gritty novel is steeped in the history of Mexico City and vampire lore and yet manages to deftly re-invent the bloodsucker . . . Certain Dark Things packs a wallop
* Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts *
With its
vibrant prose and
stellar world-building,
Certain Dark Things is one of the
best books I've read in years * V.E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author *
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
pulls zero punches,
bares all the fangs, and
goes for every throat in the room with
Certain Dark Things * Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians *
A
delicious,
elegant,
gritty vampire noir. Moreno-Garcia has created
a world that pulses with life and terror and honesty * Daniel Jose Older, New York Times bestselling author *
A
fresh,
stunning interpretation of vampire lore . . . 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 r
iveting noir-punk reinvention of vampire lore.
Certain Dark Things is
exquisitely vicious and
brutally beautiful * Ann Aguirre, New York Times bestselling author *
Certain Dark Things is dark, inimitable, and so very, very cool. Unmissable
* Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama *
Certain Dark Things is arguably
the vampire novel for the 21st century * New York Journal of Books *
With
dark and delicious elegance, Moreno-Garcia delivers
a satisfyingly bloody vampire story with a
tantalising twist * The Globe and Mail *
Moreno-Garcia's characters are
vivid and compelling,
as is her prose. As a novel, it's
fantastic:
honest, wrenching, compassionate, and brutal * Tor.com *
She has invented a complex world in which humans run around half in terror or in subjection, and half in love with countless subspecies of modern-day vampire...
Will you be gripped to the last page? Oh, I expect so * The Times *
