Vampires of el Norte

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Isabel Cañas: Vampires of el Norte (2023, Penguin Publishing Group)

English language

Published June 6, 2023 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-593-43672-1
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As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead.

Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago.

Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind.

When the United States attacks Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, …

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Novela texmex de vampiros

4 stars

Muy buena novela sobre vampiros, desierto, norteños y gringos. Ubicada durante los años previos al inicio de la guerra México-Americana de 1846-1848, culmina después de la caída de Matamoros y de la batalla de Monterrey (aunque solo mencionan lo de Matamoros)

Malditos gringos. Está muy bien ambientada en el norte de México (Chihuahua, Coahuila, NL, Tamaulipas) y el sur de Texas (río grande valley). Aunque la verdad si se nota que la autora (tex-mex) es más Tex que Mex (escribe “acecina” en lugar de “cecina”, por ejemplo, ignorando que en el norte la comemos seca, y no le llamamos cecina, sino carne seca).

Anyhow, altamente recomendable, la disfruté bastante a pesar de que de repente aparece algo de “romance adolescente”, que habitualmente odio, pero es tan leve que es tolerable.