The world building here is extraordinary. And since the gangs are just as eager to keep the mean streets of Mexico City free of vampires as the police are, both groups go on the hunt for the blood suckers stalking their community. While trying to locate Atl in this very vampire unfriendly town, he kills a girl, thus alerting the authorities – and the human crime syndicates – to his presence. Nick is a Necro, the vampires of whom most Western legends are made, and a member of the cartel who killed Atl’s family and is looking to kill her. When he eagerly agrees to take on the job, Atl sends him to her mother’s cryptic contact, and plans for her departure begin in earnest.īut Atl is not the only vampire in Mexico City. In that position, Domingo can get the supplies and papers she needs to make her escape. Atl initially tries to send him away, but he is stubborn, refusing to leave, and it occurs to her that she needs a Renfield (a servant/emissary). Using some of the money Atl gave him in payment for his cooperation, he buys her a gift and returns to her apartment the next night. When it’s over, she sends him home with an admonishment to never speak of their encounter.īut Domingo can’t forget her. Domingo is surprisingly open minded about the issue, agreeing to her using him as a snack, and curious rather than horrified as they discuss it. As a Tlahuihpochtin she does not have to kill him, she just has to take one long drink of his precious, life-giving blood. Domingo is clean, drug free, and young enough to provide the kind of meal she needs. Mexico City is meant to be a vampire-free zone, but she has to be there in order to make contact with a mysterious former friend of her mother’s. She’s clearly wealthy, far above a lonely garbage-collecting street kid like himself, but he follows her anyway, wary but hopeful.Ītl shouldn’t risk it, but she is too hungry not to. He’s surprised when she doesn’t blow him off but instead invites him home with her. Part noir and part horror story, this vampire tale takes place in an alternate reality Mexico City where two lonely souls try to survive the dangerous streets of a town riddled with trouble.ĭomingo doesn’t mean to start a conversation with the beautiful young woman sitting across from him on the subway, but when she catches him staring at her, he says something just to make the situation less awkward. Certain Dark Things is a re-released 2016 novel by best-selling author Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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