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A review by sarahblessing
The Night Inside by Nancy Baker
4.0
When I was in 5th grade I read Interview with the Vampire for the first time and immediately became obsessed with all things vampire. I went to my library and looked up the subject vampire and read each and every book our branch had. I read The Night Inside like a dozen times but never thought to get my own copy. I’ve spent like the last ten years looking for this book that I honestly was beginning to think I had made up, googling random variations of the plot. I happened to find it on Goodreads by mistake a month ago and immediately ordered a copy online.
So does it hold up? Honestly, my opinion is probably colored by nostalgia but this book is still fun as hell. If you like both sexy vampire thrillers and like goofy 90’s action movies wherein the government is searching for a couple on the run, pick up this book. It’s got some things that are weird or icky (not surprising given the time it was written, and thankfully not as awful as it could be) about sex workers and HIV, but overall it wasn’t cringey or disappointing like I was worried it would be.
The best part is that there’s a sequel I never knew about as a kid and I just ordered a copy of it, am beyond psyched to see what happens to the thousands year old vampire and his weird goth girlfriend!
So does it hold up? Honestly, my opinion is probably colored by nostalgia but this book is still fun as hell. If you like both sexy vampire thrillers and like goofy 90’s action movies wherein the government is searching for a couple on the run, pick up this book. It’s got some things that are weird or icky (not surprising given the time it was written, and thankfully not as awful as it could be) about sex workers and HIV, but overall it wasn’t cringey or disappointing like I was worried it would be.
The best part is that there’s a sequel I never knew about as a kid and I just ordered a copy of it, am beyond psyched to see what happens to the thousands year old vampire and his weird goth girlfriend!