- Vampires, Fiction, Fiction, romance, paranormal, Vampires, fiction
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and fast-paced journey. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Here in the city, heavily policed to keep the creatures of the night at bay, Domingo is another trash-picking street kid, just hoping to make enough to survive. Then he meets Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers. Domingo is smitten. He clings to her like a barnacle until Atl relents and decides to let him stick around. But Atl's problems, Nick and Rodrigo, have come to find her. When they start to raise the body count in the city, it attracts the attention of police officers, local crime bosses, and the vampire community. Atl has to get out before Mexico City is upended, and her with it. In 2015, Silvia's debut, Signal to Noise, was named on seven year's best lists: B & N's Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, RT, BookRiot, Buzzfeed, i09, Vice, and Tor.com. Certain Dark Things was also listed on B & N's Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog as one of 42 books they can't wait to read in 2016 and on io9 as one of 40 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Will Rock Your World In 2016!"--
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Quercus, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Nightfire
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529415612
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher. She serves as publisher of [Innsmouth Free Press](https://innsmouthfreepress.com/), an imprint devoted to weird fiction. She has co-edited numerous anthologies, and *The Jewish Mexican Literary Review.* In 2016, she won a World Fantasy Award for the anthology *She Walks in Shadows* and a Copper Cylinder Award for her novel *Signal to Noise.* In February 2020 she was announced as a finalist for the Nebula Award 2019 in the Best Novel category for her book *Gods of Jade and Shadow.* Selected from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia_Moreno-Garcia), 7 February 2022
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