Book Review : Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom

Genre : Horror Published : 1988 Format : E – book Pages : 206

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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 .

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 .

Recommendations : Books

  1. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
  2. The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
  3. The Quick and the Dead by Louis L’Amour
  4. Demon Seed by Dean Koontz
  5. The Howling by Gary Brandner

Songs

  1. Obsession – Animotion
  2. Animal – Disturbed
  3. Every Breath You Take – The Police
  4. Lust for Blood – Powerwolf
  5. Mad Hatter – Melanie Martinez

Movies

  1. Doctor Sleep (2019)
  2. The Hitchhiker (1953)
  3. Hard Candy (2005)
  4. The Ring (2002)
  5. 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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