I wasn't quite sure what to expect, when I embarked on this book, but I hoped for something different, something that added to me as a person. Straight away, I was plunged into a world very far from my own, and experiences in life that I, priviledge white girl I was growing up, can't really claim to underdstand or even relate. Or can't I? Maria is all of us women, and she's unlike any of us. Maria speaks for that badass, take-no-shit, perseverant and stubborn lady society has taught us to drown and quietly smother inside us. This book is definetley different from every other vampir book I've ever read. And that can only be a good thing.
An ambiance that reminds me of Bolaño's 26666 - a book that made a huge impression on me - I found myself rooting for this woman who does not know how to give up, and wishing myself more like her. All the while singing Blondie's 'Maria'.