#57 Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Domingo is living on his own in tunnels under Mexico City when he is approached by a woman on the metro who brings him to his empty apt.  It turns out that Atl is a vampire native to Mexico and on the run from some other vampires that are from a narco gang and descended from European vampires.  Domingo becomes a “Reinfield” of sorts to Atl and helps her around Mexico City, which has mostly been about to be no vampire zone since the vampires became known to the world in the 1960’s.  Atl isn’t a “good” vampire, her family was a narco gang being pushed out by the rivals that are now chasing her down to kill her. Atl contacts former friends of her mother to try and get new papers so she can escape down to South America.  As the net grows tighter around Atl and Domingo, thanks to the killing of humans by Nick the rival vampire and the police in the form of Ana a cop with a history of killing vampires things do not look good to escape the city.

 

The story is good and doesn’t end quite the way I was thinking it would.   At some point I would certainly like to see more written in this setting with more about Atl or even the other vampire species.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss