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Barrio Girls by Charles de Lint
3.0
adventurous dark fast-paced

I read this in a young adult fantasy collection about witches, but honestly it comes across more of a horror story to me. Two girls, both fans of vampire media, stumble across a real vampire lurking down by a river, and are out for revenge after the vampire kills someone they know. Just how they go about this is reminiscent of an almost fairy tale sort of logic, but it's an entertaining story, and I'd like to read more of the two main characters. I think it's part of a series? It'd be worth looking that series up, I think, because both Vida and Ruby are appealingly loyal and appealingly vicious, and their community-minded monster destruction is fun to read.