Thank you NetGalley and Saga Press for providing this eARC in exchange for an honest review! 

My mother has a disclaimer she likes to use when telling of a horrible thing that happened, "this is a sad story with a bad ending." That really sums up the experience of reading this book. I don't mean bad as in "poorly crafted" but bad as in you close the book feeling a sense of dread and devastation that only the best horror stories can elicit. This is my first Stephen Graham Jones book and it will not be my last! This was masterfully written. The beginning took a little bit for me to get into but I feel that may be a personal problem as I don't read a lot of historical fiction so the prose was a bit foreign to me. Once the story got going though, brain adapted and it was so so good. I truly loved how vampires are explored in this, give me grimy gross vampires over clean and cold ones any day. That said, this book's descriptions had me legitimately lightheaded at times so big warning for gore and body horror! There were moments when I was so drawn in and freaked out in a good way that I realized why people like rollercoasters (not a rollercoaster fan myself). I cannot recommend this enough to horror fans. Truly, a book that I will keep thinking about every so often and go "damn". 

TWs: Gore, Body Horror, Blood, Animal Death, Vomit, Rape (minor, happens around the halfway point if anyone wants to skip that scene)