Welcome to Litsy!

“People, aging and mortal, are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree.”
Quiet and melancholy, a vampire story planted firmly in the ‘sad girl‘ genre, and I loved it. All vibe, little plot (i.e. totally my jam!), Lydia is a lonely young artist, trying to find a place in the world, without her mother for the 1st time, struggling with her ‘food‘ issues, and her immortality. Gorgeous writing, a really great debut. #netgalley

September wrap-up! I finished 11 books in September.
🥇Woman, Eating
🥈L'Esprit de L'Escalier
🥉The Hollow Places

I started this over a week ago, and am only on page 50- I can‘t get into at all. It‘s a bit mundane for me, but I kept trying to pick it back up. The story seemed interesting (a vampire that wishes she could eat food and does not prey on humans. Lydia and her mother have ever only feasted on pig‘s blood to stay functioning). I may try to read it again in the future, but I‘m bailing for now!

September TBR! Time to start fall reading 🍂

Lydia is a 23-year-old aspiring artist starting an internship at a gallery after taking a year off to care for her mother. She is also a vampire, raised to survive on pig's blood & consider herself a monster. Faced with unexpected challenges, Lyd struggles to feed herself & ultimately, to understand her place in the world. A strangely realistic vampire novel, rooted in the realities of being young, uncertain and different from everyone around you.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really enjoyed this strange and somewhat gory book about a mixed race female vampire. It dragged for me just a little near the middle but it‘s well written and the rest was intriguing. It‘s definitely a slower read, and is almost a character study - just with a hungry vampire trying to reconcile her human side with her vampiric tendencies.
This was a #gettbr recommendation.

I really really loved this book! 🖤

It's so beautifully written and I just loved the characters, I'm going to be always thinking about Lydia.

It's a different view on vampirism, which I can appreciate. I like different.

It's hard to put down once you start.

What a stunning debut.

Literary vampire novel? Great for fans of Otessa Moshfegh or Sin Eater by Megan Campisi (if you have any concerns about becoming obsessive with food I would sit this one out). https://youtu.be/vns6Vz_hZUQ

A weird and eerie little book! Basically no plot at all, it‘s all character based - we are in the mind of a sad and hungry female vampire and the book is basically just a continual stream of consciousness.

Fascinating and odd. The last chapter is particularly good but I can‘t say I LOVED it.

So this looks interesting. Not in my wheelhouse so I‘m keeping my fingers crossed. 🤞🤞

I think maybe it's about not denying who you are and
embracing your true nature. Definitely about how you will never belong and are nothing if you don't partake in all of our many food rituals. But most importantly, what it's like being a vampire among delicious humans. I was reminded of how lions and other carnivores eat the stomach of their herbivore prey first, to get veggies into their diet.

Loved this modern vampire novel of a mixed race young woman finding her power. 4 🌟

#WomanEating turned out to be a big disappointment. I always thought it would go SOMEWHERE, but it never actually did.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️/5
#ClaireKohda #fiction

Oh dear! What happens when I go to pick up one book at the library!