Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an e-arc for review.
This is a beautifully written and translated book. I was so impressed with how the flow of the writing was kept even in translation. It was clearly well researched, as there were lots of real world connections made throughout. This really leaves you feeling intrigued to find out more about the real world to see what was used in the book and what was made up. An example of this was the invention of fingerprinting to find perpetrators of crime. I enjoyed the single point of view, stream of consciousness style... despite this not always working for me. There was enough change in "direction" to keep me interested. This single point of view also encouraged me to think about how the main character was appearing to others throughout. The title and the exploration of the concept of thirst in many forms was such an interesting part of the book too. Vampire stories often end with the vampire losing all humanity... this was not the case here, as with the recollection of the main characters mother and child and the very human way they looked back over their life and vampirism and still made decisions based on human emotion and thought processes. This was a well written, well translated, vampire book that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys books that make you curious to know more and that love a good thought experiment. My rating is 4.5 stars.