One of these, a beautiful young woman named Atl, flees to Mexico City when her Northern Mexico clan is destroyed by a rival gang of Necros (a horrifying European species that can control humans with a single bite and whose blood is poison to other vampires). This is not great news for the native vampires of Mexico - bird-winged blood drinkers who have existed since the time of the Aztecs.

Vampires from every culture in the world - dozens of subspecies - have fled to Mexico because it has some of the least restrictive laws against blood-suckers. Mexico City has become a closed nation city, leaving the rest of the country at the mercy of powerful vampire gangs who fight for territory against each other and the humans.

Set in Mexico City, the novel imagines an alternate present in which the discovery of vampires' existence in the 1970s has fundamentally reshaped the world of the 21st Century. Sorry and check out there rest of my catalogue.Ĭertain Dark Things is not just another vampire novel. People e-mail me several times a month asking where they can buy Certain Dark Things, so I figured I'd leave this message here: it's out of print. Update: Happy to say Certain Dark Things, which has been out of print for a while now, will come out in a new edition courtesy of Tor in 2021. Update 08/2020: Skeletal page for new edition with a few order links functional. Update 11/20: Review copies are available via Netgalley. Update: 3/21: Cover revealed and excerpt available. It's violent, gritty, and faithful to the spirit of la novela negra. As such, it bears little resemblance to Mexican Gothic or vampire romances. This is a neo-noir set in an alternate Mexico City. Plus, it's a violent neo-noir.įor people who only know me for Mexican Gothic, I should warn you all my books tend to straddle different genres and have a very different feel for one another. One of the five POVs is from a 17 year old (Domingo), but the other POVs are two people in their twenties and two people in their fifties. Warning: I don't know why people on Goodreads insist on classifying this as YA, but it's an adult novel.

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