Saturday, October 12, 2024

Ten top contemporary and genre-spanning vampire books

Claudia Guthrie is a writer covering culture, entertainment, and lifestyle content. Her work has appeared in ELLE, The Muse, Food52, and more. Originally from Kansas City, she now resides
 in Denver, where you can find her reading the newest thriller or knitting sweaters for her cats.

At Electric Lit Guthrie tagged ten of "the best contemporary and genre-spanning vampire books," including:
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas

Nena and Néstor were inseparable as children … until one night when Nena is attacked by an enigmatic beast. Thinking his friend dead, Néstor flees, unable to face a new world without her. When events of the Mexican-American War call him home nine years later, he learns Nena survived the attack … and that the Anglos aren’t the only thing for the people of El Norte to fear.

Like Isabel Cañas’ first novel The Hacienda, Vampires of El Norte is a deeply romantic and deeply spooky historical gothic tale.
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