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3.5 ⭐️ rounded up

This is a story about a vampire named Anna. It mainly follows her in 1984 as the owner of a preschool in America and it flashes back to moments in her past. She becomes a vampire in the early 1800s as a child and takes on lots of different names and personalities on her way to the modern age. At one point she just starts murdering Nazi’s and butchering them to protect a little French village which is sick. The flashbacks all tie in nicely with the main plot going on in 1984 and you slowly learn more about why Anna, or “Collette” as she goes by later on, is the way that she is.

I really enjoyed it. It is probably closest in genre to literary fiction but has some really good mystery elements to it that I liked and made the plot more interesting. It focuses on the horrors of living forever and experiencing the cycle of loss for a lot longer than mortals ever have to.

I liked the mystery side to the story but unfortunately the threads don’t get tied up in the end which left me feeling a little unsatisfied. There are a lot of questions that don’t get answered. The ending has elements that are open to interpretation which I usually enjoy, but I didn’t work as well with this story.