Thirst

Two different women from two different centuries live lives that are unsatisfying until fate brings them together. One a vampire from Europe relocating to Buenos Aires trying to figure out where she fits in and the other a woman struggling with her mother’s impending death due to illness.

I had high hopes for this book when I went into it. The premise sounded very interesting. This was sadly a case where the parts were fine, but they didn’t really click together in a pleasing way.

The first half of the book was actually very interesting. This section focuses entirely on the vampire in the eighteenth century. The book reads as the character explaining to us about her life. From her childhood, to turning, to escaping to live her life, and so on. She was fascinating to follow and her plight was easy to sympathize with, even when she was clearly not a good or moral person.

The second half switches to the modern day character, Alma, being our narrator. This is where the book takes a severe dip. We are meant to feel for her in her struggles with her mother’s illness, but this dragged on A LOT. I felt a little bad thinking it, but I was very tired of her constantly monologuing about it. It felt like this took up most of the book at this point and it got dull. Once the two connect for reasons I won’t spoil there was so little left in the book. This felt far too rushed and didn’t get as much attention as it deserved. There were other aspects that felt like they were dropped for convenience by the end as well. (Specifically Alma’s son whom she also talks about at length.)

Overall there were things I liked about this book and things I didn’t. I had a hard time deciding how I felt because by the end it was unsatisfying. I do think it’s worth a read for the parts that were actually very good.

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