Highblood

Julieta Vanterroso came into the world with fangs, in a family that treats its monstrous nature not as a secret but as a tradition to be dressed up and paraded. Her grandmother has mapped out her future: she will reign over the carnival, wed the man picked for her and play every part expected of her. But as the festivities draw near, to the sound of drums, the family starts to come apart. Corpses appear, the old rites stop working, and ancestral forces that these women both call upon and fight off wake hungers in them that blood cannot still. Drawing on Barranquilla society, its carnival and Afro-Caribbean spiritual traditions, the novel builds a hybrid vampire world that also has much to say about class and power.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

210 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Colombia

First published

2025 by Laguna Libros

Author's age

27 when first published

ISBN

9786287547995 (original)

9781668242346 (Atria/Primero Sueño Press, United States)

9781786587961 (Manilla Press, United Kingdom)