Title/Author: Thirst - Marina Yuszczuk (Translate by Heather Cleary)
Genre(s): Horror, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Historical
This was fantastic. I confess, I wasn't sure what to expect going in. Based on page count, it seemed like it should have felt shorter than it did, but this is a full, rich story of two characters, where their lives existed apart, and there they intersected.
This is probably the most 'literary fiction' title I've read in quite some time. It's ostensibly a genre book, given the vampire, but it's language, it's flow, the contrast between the rather straightforward part one (the vampire's tale in the past) and the sort of purposeful meandering of part two (Alma's tale in the present)...I don't know how properly to explain my thinking on this.
I wanted more of the two of them together. I'm sure it was never going to happen, that's not the type of story the author was writing, but that's fine. This was just great.
Reviewed by: Alex