I love Rachel Harrison's writing style. The main character was well thought out and a little annoying (as all people are) and the best friend was insufferable and loveable at the same time. The romance was a bit contrived but overall it was a fun look at vampires creating new offspring and I liked the ending sequence.

So Thirsty is your typical vampire story; some friends meet a hot guy and go back to his house with his hot friends and end up turning into vampires. Oops.

I really loved Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle by Rachel Harrison. So Thirsty was not for me. I actually was not able to make it all the way through, I felt it was slow-moving. I will say though, I don't generally like vampire stories. Every once in a while I pick one up and hope its a little less cliché, this one was pretty cliché. But that's definitely something readers of vampire novels like! So please, if you're into modern day vampire stories give this one a try!

Giving this one an extra star for being written by an author I really do love.

This story was enjoyable! It certainly wasn't anything like what I was expecting - this was more centered around female friendship than being a vampiric horror, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The writing was quick and well done, and the story was so unique to other things I've read - including other vampire stories. The plot wasn't really defined, or maybe there wasn't one, and that's not usually my vibe, but I didn't mind with So Thirsty. I enjoyed the dynamic between Naomi and Sloane, between the girls and the vampires, between the vampires and humans. My main issue was with Naomi's character. She continually did things that didn't fully make sense to me; nothing she ever did seemed thought out, or even aligned with her personality. It felt like she was just creating chaos for the plot.

Great story! 4/5

Like all the other books by this author I’ve read, this has interesting characters and a crazy plot. Really a different kind of vampire story- very realistic.

So much fun. But then again all her books are a riot.
🩸Birthday weekend getaway
🩸Best friends
🩸Night out that goes sideways
🩸Thelma & Louise meets Interview with a Vampire
This book had me calling my nest friend (who is very much like Naomi) and telling them to never make plans for a weekend getaway for my birthday!

An absolute thrill ride! This book kept me on the edge of my seat with its chilling atmosphere and gripping plot. And, the writing style is both atmospheric and haunting. A definite 5-star read for horror enthusiasts.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for my arc in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

This is a no thanks for me. I could not stand the main character or her best friend, and the story itself was so contrived and boring. Now, maybe the adult women I know are unrealistic because I do not know women like Sloane and Naomi, and if I did, I would promptly cut myself out of their lives because they are unbearable. I also just did not care about Sloane. I mean what a freaking doormat. She is dealing with a lot but holy crap. She is a fully grown woman out here being manipulated, willingly, by everyone in her life. Also, I hate Naomi. What an awful personality type.

In terms of writing, Rachel Harrison just did not do it for me. At all. I've only ever read one other book by her and it was so bland and generic and middle of the road. And somehow, this has fallen way below that. Harrison's writing is just SO heavy handed and I just hate it when authors don't trust the reader to be smart. Every single hint of "foreshadowing" was beating me over the head and I hate when an author assumes I'm an idiot and hand holds me through the book. I find it so lazy and clunky and this book had nothing but that embedded in its storytelling.

I think I would have been more behind the change of everything in this book but it just does not feel earned or worth it when our main character has to be talked into every little thing. God, I found Sloane so irritating and juvenile. Ugh.

No thank you.

Oh, I do like Rachel Harrison’s angry women. When I read her books, I feel like I want to know these women in real life and I really, really find myself rooting for them.

It’s definitely a good and, at times, gruesome read.

There’s a good mixture of humor and edge and I felt like I’d been taken on an adventure.

I will say that I felt a little cheated because there was a certain character who need a little comeuppance and I felt like they’d been forgotten. I kept waiting for our MC to pay this character a little visit, like HONEY, I’M HOME, but got nothing.

Otherwise, though, it was a great read and I want another book, please!

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This was my first book that I have read by Rachel Harrison and it definitely won’t be the last. Her writing style was so smooth and addictive that I found myself unable to stop flipping the pages. I adored this book and the found family aspect that was written so beautifully.

I adored the friendship of Sloane and Naomi. Their banter was amazing and I had moments where I literally laughed out loud. I found myself relating to Sloane more than I’d like to admit.

This book had the perfect amount of horror, comedy, and a little bit of romance. I will definitely recommend.

Rachel Harrison is magic. She's cornered the market on writing supernatural horror with female main characters, and supporting characters, that are so relatable. Weird things happen and no one ever panics, they just go, "Well. Shit." and handle it in realistic ways. She writes with humor and heart and every book she releases is stellar.

Look, I love Harrison's books. She is an auto-read (and purchase) for me and I recommend her books to any and all horror fans. Lots of spoilers ahead, sorry. So Thirsty was such a disappointment and it pains me to write that. Harrison often writes about female friendships and it's usually a strength of hers but this friendship is toxic garbage.

I hate Naomi so, so much. She's selfish, careless, and has no impulse control and once she becomes a vampire she's even worse. I have friends that have been my best friends for over 20 years and I would never, never want to participate with them or see them participate in an orgy. Just kill me instead. So inappropriate and bizarre. And Henry instantly falls for Sloane. Why? Because she's so clearly a doormat? Not sexy. She also has ZERO personality. This vampire group isn't even cool! They're homeless, broke misfits--in what universe is that appealing? How is that preferable to a life of not drinking blood?! How do you live hundreds of years and not figure out a way to have wealth?! Oh, but these are ethical vampires. They drink blood from blood banks; that they steal from! And they sure as shit do plenty of killing mostly because Naomi is a child. The section with Alice was interesting--the most interesting part--but I was so disgusted with these characters and the plot at this point if felt like being thrown a bone (no pun intended). I was almost happy at the end until I read the epilogue.

The best thing about this book is how short it is. I'm giving this two stars instead of one because it has caused such a visceral and lasting impression. I cannot recommend this book to anyone but I will still recommend all Harrison's other books because they are creative, scary, and fantastic.

I’m starting to realize that I don’t mesh well with Harrison’s version of writing/storytelling and that’s okay. I felt that this started out promising but the story started to lose me after that. Perhaps this is for someone else but it isn’t for me.

So Thirsty was just fine for me. It had a promising start, but I felt myself trudging through it. The writing style was what I like and it was an easy read, but I found the character development lacking and their actions predictable. The ending was satisfactory, but also predictable.

I appreciated the realness and the closeness of the two main character’s relationship. I didn’t enjoy the insta-love or the horrible decision-making from one character. I don’t know, it just wasn’t for me.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review So Thirsty. I give it 3/5 stars. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Once again, Rachel Harrison delivers a book so honest, so reflective of the female experience, that one feels they need to read it alone. She delivers our private thoughts out loud, and we can't let others see them. Though this book is about female friendship, territory she always explores so well, it's also about women aging in a youth obsessed culture. Our main character, Sloane, must contend with more than just leaving a marriage and finding blood. She no longer has access to her old self. Without her reflection, her entire existence turns inward, and it's the kind of mountain so few of us are prepared to climb, even with our very best friends along for the ride.

I loved this book and highly recommend it.

I adore this author and read her every release. Thankfully this didn't disappoint. It was real, raw, engaging and emotional. Recommended.

Sloane is dissatisfied with her mundane life, but she also feels safe in it. She hates surprises and doesn't like risks. She kids herself that she has forgiven her cheating husband but somewhere in the back of her mind she knows he won't change. She stays with him more from a fear of leaving than any sense of trust or love. When he surprises her with a long weekend getaway without him she is not that keen to go. Did he set this up so she could spend time with her best friend Naomi or did he just want her out of the house? The doorbell camera app on her phone has answers to that.

Naomi's life is anything but mundane but she too has grown dissatisfied with her relationship, work, and constant travel. What once seemed exciting is just exhausting now. When Naomi talks Sloane into partying with a group of strangers to celebrate her birthday, neither of them will ever be able to return to their old tedious ways of life.

So Thirsty is a vampire novel that will likely appeal to fans of True Blood and the Charlaine Harris books that launched Sookie off the page and onto the screen.
Themes of friendship and loyalty interspersed with domestic drama and lots of bloodshed kept me hooked on the story.
I could relate to Sloane's feeling of being unseen as a woman getting older, no longer viewed as someone who matters, while the horror fan in me was enjoying the creepy vibe and carnage.

My thanks to Berkley Publishing

A solid addition to the vampire genre, and one that neither shies away from the monstrous nor revels in it.

Sloane and Naomi are best friends on a girls’ trip for Sloane’s birthday. They are grappling with the realities of getting older, marriage, relationships, and female friendships, when a wild night at a party turns into a sinister encounter with the undead. Sloane and Naomi must come to terms with their new reality.

This is my second book by Rachel Harrison and I love her writing style. She has a way of combining feminism, humor, and making bold statements about society all within horror tales. This one wasn’t especially dark or scary, and involved lots of vampire lore and focus on female friendship and character growth. I loved the Thelma and Louise moments and the powerful foreshadowing that is tucked throughout the book until the exciting ending. This book cements the fact that I will want to read anything Rachel writes!

Thank you to Rachel Harrison, Berkley Publishing, and Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

While I didn’t love this book as much as I did Black Sheep, I still finished it in like 2 sittings. A beautifully written, fast-paced story about learning to live while not technically being alive. The characters were real, the emotions raw, and the conflict and tension were handled expertly.

I’m over the moon this ended on a happy note— I was getting serious “Thirsty” by MT Anderson vibes from this, and I’m happy these characters got the good they deserved out of lives that dealt them shitty hands. Vampire and girl friendships— literally what could be better?

Nothing says mid-life crisis like vampires!
Sloane is turning 40 and dreading it - so much so that she's not even looking forward to the girls-only weekend with her bff Naomi. When Sloane's husband surprised her with the weekend getaway, he said it would be for her to reconnect with Naomi after years of being apart, but does he have a more devious reason? Naomi certainly does - she's going to break Sloane out of her humdrum, boring, worst-case scenario life or die trying! Sloane is convinced an invite to a house filled with strangers on a deserted street during a snowstorm is the perfect place for something to horrible to happen, but to Naomi's rock and roll lifestyle, it's just another Thursday night!
With a crazy cast of characters and a depressingly realistic main character, So Thirsty is a perfect gothic book for a chick lit book club or for gabbing about with your girlfriends!
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