![]() ![]() His novel is a dramatic tour de force that compels reader sympathy for mortals and monsters alike. As in the previous books, Hirshberg keeps the traditional vampire lore to a minimum, focusing instead on his characters’ inner lives and the compulsions, grief, sorrow, loneliness, and will to survive that drive them all. Motherless Child (2012) / Good Girls (2016) / Nothing to Devour (2018) by Glen Hirshberg / Dark Across the Bay (2021) by Ania Ahlborn. ![]() The story picks up five years after the mutual massacre of humans and vampires that concluded Good Girls and develops along converging plot lines driven by three primary characters: Emilia, a Mississippi librarian taken as cross-country hostage by a bandaged blood-drinker whom she dubs “the Invisible Man” Sophie, a vampire who miraculously survived her earlier near-fatal mauling and Jess, matriarch of a stockade on San Juan Island that is home to her “family” of survivors and a beacon to vengeful vampires. ![]() It’s quite a feat to write a vampire novel without ever once invoking the V-word, but Hirshberg does so with consummate skill in this wrenching third Motherless Children horror novel. ![]()
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