While we get glimpses or one-liners about what others there are, I would have loved to eplore them more and to see this bit of world bulding incorporated into the actual story, rather than just be exposition. Para una persona que no es muy fan de los vampiros como yo, acabé enganchadísima con el universo que la autora imagina con sus diferentes razas, peculiaridades y voces.

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. It crosses an interesting line of dark fantasy, horror and even a noir thriller and yet offers something that feels uniquely its own thing while paying homages to the genres it clearly loves.He finds her beautiful, so when she asks him to be her “friend”, he willingly provides a small blood donation (and hopes to take it further). This is the world Sylvia Moreno Garcia creates in Certain Dark Things and it’s as entertaining as you think it is. Once again, the author has proved how adept she is at writing multiple genres and delivering unique stories that satisfy the reader. A book like this can have tons of action and cool vampire powers, but what matters to me is the characters, and I loved the relationship that this book builds between Atl and Domingo. She wasn’t wearing a fancy outfit, but it fit her well; the clothes were of good quality, he could tell as much.

What is fascinating, as other reviewers have established, is the details to which Moreno-Garcia goes into about the different subspecies of vampire. The book’s climax is perfectly okay, but I genuinely assumed there was more to come, as it felt really of a piece with the other set pieces, but no – that’s the end of the book, complete with a coup de grâce that feels so brief as to almost be an afterthought (and not worth the buildup that we’ve been given, especially since the reveal is shot a few pages earlier). The only reason he’s arrived in Mexico City is to murder Atl, who turned down his advances shortly before he murdered her family. All these things make Certain Dark Things a unique vampire novel that transforms Mexico city into a cyberpunk landscape with the same charm as the modern city full of street vendors and pyramid ruins.From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic , comes Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. The world building is very basic and by that I don’t just mean the actual physical world our characters inhabit. She’s going to need to trust him with not just her secrets, but with her life, if they both are going to get out of Mexico City alive. Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. They are both on their own, both looking for a way out of the holes they are in, they just need to learn to trust one another.