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A Journey of Black and Red
by Álex Gilbert
A confident historical vampire progression story with an unusually vivid first-person heroine and a road-trip structure that keeps the world changing around her.
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Turned into a vampire in colonial North America, Ariane leaves a ruined old life behind and crosses centuries of wars, cities, occult factions, and increasingly dangerous friendships.
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