Genre : Horror Published : 1988 Format : E – book Pages : 206
“You have to be careful what you identify with because that’s often who you become .”
Summary : Meet our protagonist Angelina Watson . She is a beautiful but odd teenage girl when her mother dies and her stepfather decides to sell the house . Angelina was never that close to her stepfather so she decides to go her own way . She hitchhikes around the United States for about a year without any real issues till one day two drunk rednecks try to force themselves on her . I say try because somehow this awakens the inner vampire in her and she kills one while scaring away the other . With the awakening of the predator within she continues her cross country trip . Come and read this coming of age road trip story involving attempted rape , murder , lesbian rape , child murder , molestation , and other dark surprises .
“Humans have a musk of anger , a sweet tang of lust , a rolling bland contentment , and a hot spiking fear .”
Review : First and foremost , if you couldn’t tell by the summary I wrote , this is a dark book . In fact , it’s one of the darkest I’ve read all year . It is also brilliant . Putting us through this story from the vampire’s point of view , seeing how they struggle giving us a more sympathetic perspective of despite the obvious evil in her while also adding at the end of each chapter various other people’s interpetation of what happened , making this feel like a much deeper world than it’s 206 pages would suggest . I would highly recommend this book to gothic horror fans , vampire lovers , and psychological horror enthusiasts … but if you’re a sensitive soul you should probably go elsewhere .
“The night people are lovers , loners , readers , romantics . Night people are addicted .”
Recommendations : Books
- Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
- The Quick and the Dead by Louis L’Amour
- Demon Seed by Dean Koontz
- The Howling by Gary Brandner
Songs
- Obsession – Animotion
- Animal – Disturbed
- Every Breath You Take – The Police
- Lust for Blood – Powerwolf
- Mad Hatter – Melanie Martinez
Movies
- Doctor Sleep (2019)
- The Hitchhiker (1953)
- Hard Candy (2005)
- The Ring (2002)
- Knock Knock (2015)
Lesson : If you don’t know not to pick up hitchhikers , especially the cute ones , by this point in time … well that’s on you my friend .
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