Cassie McCullagh

Look, let's start on a positive note, David.

The title sells it all.

I'm right with you on just about all those counts.

I'm a bit of a sucker for... You can see what I did there.

Saw what you did.

For the vampire genre.

And I was interested to read one reviewer point out that

Every generation or every moment in contemporary history gets the vampire book it deserves.

And in this case, this is a carvel of narcissistic, wealth-obsessed bloodsuckers who we apparently deserve.

There's so many ideas, but he just forgot to have a narrative.

It's written or maybe even just collated in a fictional oral history style.

So there's newspaper articles, magazine, like, you know, variety or entertainment this week kind of articles, online posts, notes from a centre for disease control specialist, who's one of the big characters, transcripts of FBI interviews.

And so you kind of have to piece it all together.

Tip the hat to Stephanie Meyer.

Hello, Stephanie Meyer.

But also, for me, that's quite a tragedy because the gloaming is one of my favourite words.

I mean, that is the time between when the sun goes down and there being only the light of the moon.

And so, you know, it's a mix between the glowing and the glooming, which is, you know, it's a beautiful word here.

It is sort of trashed in this novel.

Romanticising the fact that they can't be in the sun.