hwabusters.blogg.se - Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom

“It’s the only first person book I’ve ever written,” Engstrom says. Which is the problem with writing a book from an insane person’s point of view. Written in the first person, the more Angelina rejects reality and embraces the delusion that she’s a vampire, the more straightforward Black Ambrosia’s narrative becomes, and the more comfortable the book becomes for the reader.

Angelina decided she would be this thing, and she became this thing.”

They thought about it, they became excited by it, they decided to identify with it, and then they went and tried to murder their friend. “It’s exactly like those girls who stabbed their classmate over Slenderman. They’re not fully formed, they’re experimenting. Boys do it when they’re a little older-that’s how the military grabs them-but girls do it earlier. They’re searching and they want to figure out what they are. “Teenage girls between 13 and 15 get caught up in stuff. “Do you remember the Slenderman incident?” author Elizabeth Engstrom asks, referring to the 2014 case in which two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to impress the non-existent urban legend known as Slenderman. Throughout the novel’s pages, what’s really happening is that she’s going insane. She becomes a vampire because she wills it. She kills one of them and hits the road, sucking blood to survive, mesmerizing men with her eyes, sleeping in a coffin, and turning into fog when necessary.Īngelina’s vampirism isn’t the result of a curse, she wasn’t bitten by a master vampire, it’s not something lurking in her DNA. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher, constitutes an infringement of the copyright law.Īngelina, the main character, is assaulted by two men while hitchhiking around the country, which awakens her vampiric nature. Published by Valancourt Books, Richmond, VirginiaĪll rights reserved.