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A New York Times Best Horror Fiction of the Year Selection • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror • A Parade Best Horror Books of the Year Selection
“A gruesome, action-packed monster novel about a mother and daughter with a terrible secret, on the run from an obsessed and crumbling detective . . . Terrific.” —The New York Times Book Review
In Stuart Neville’s horror debut, a mother's undying love and a daughter's insatiable hunger carve a bloody trail across the highways of the Southwest.
On a cold December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a passing stranger. Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered.
Meanwhile, Special Agent Donner of the FBI has been hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains their victims of blood before severing their spinal cords. As Agent Donner’s investigation brings him closer to the Carters, the life that Rebecca has fought so hard to hold together for her daughter becomes increasingly imperiled.
In this riveting, blood-soaked take on the vampire myth, nobody is safe and nothing is certain—not even the line between predator and prey.
“A gruesome, action-packed monster novel about a mother and daughter with a terrible secret, on the run from an obsessed and crumbling detective . . . Terrific.” —The New York Times Book Review
In Stuart Neville’s horror debut, a mother's undying love and a daughter's insatiable hunger carve a bloody trail across the highways of the Southwest.
On a cold December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a passing stranger. Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered.
Meanwhile, Special Agent Donner of the FBI has been hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains their victims of blood before severing their spinal cords. As Agent Donner’s investigation brings him closer to the Carters, the life that Rebecca has fought so hard to hold together for her daughter becomes increasingly imperiled.
In this riveting, blood-soaked take on the vampire myth, nobody is safe and nothing is certain—not even the line between predator and prey.
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“Overall a good book, it’s was a little slow in some places for my tastes. Some parts felt a little more drawn out than they necessarily needed to be in my opinion, but I did appreciate how descriptive the author was throughout the book.”
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“This book was absolutely fantastic and I don’t know why it has such mediocre reviews.
This book is very similar to the vampire movie Let Me In based off the book Let The Right One In, which I’ve never read but you bet your sweet ass I’m about to go on a vampire binge after reading this.
Like “Let Me In”, the word Vampire is never used nor Blood-sucker or anything like it. It’s treated as a human with horrific condition which I kind of liked. Also they aren’t romantic or sexy and don’t glitter. They’re just trying to survive the parasite they’ve been infected with.
This book is basically a crime novel with a vampire twist. An FBI agent is tracking a bunch of murders with their throat cuts across America. Only thing they have in common is that they’re all child predators.
Rebecca is trying to escape the law with her child but also trying to keep her fed so her sickness doesn’t come to surface.
The character work of Rebecca, Moonflower, and Agent Donner was top tier and I loved every single word of this book. I was very happy to know that this is book 1 of a trilogy however you could read this as a standalone just fine.
2025 5 Star Reads in Preferential Order
The Tyranny of Faith by Richard Swan
Heart of the Mountain by Larry Correia
Once There Were Heroes by Philip C Quaintrell
Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville
In The Shadow of Kings by Philip C Quaintrell
Cello’s Gate by Maurice Africh”About Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville, the “king of Belfast noir” (The Guardian), is the author of nine novels, including The Ghosts of Belfast, The House of Ashes, and Ratlines, as well as numerous short stories. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, and Anthony Awards and the CWA Steel Dagger. He lives near Belfast.
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