{"id":2347,"date":"2023-03-02T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2023-03-16T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:57:43","slug":"vampires-of-el-norte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Vampires of El Norte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s clear that Isabel Ca\u00f1as wants all the genres\u2014speculative, historical, horror, romance, mystery\u2014and why not? She does such a magical job of blending them together, as this follow-up to the Gothic The Hacienda makes clear. Set during the Mexican-American War, known in Mexico as intervenci\u00f3n estadounidense en M\u00e9xico (United States intervention in Mexico), at its core this is a Romance. Nena, daughter of a Texas rancher, and N\u00e9stor, son of vaqueros, are young teens who\u2019ve grown up together. During a late-night excursion on the ranch\u2014in search of lost treasure\u2014Nena is attacked by a beast that drains her of her blood. Feeling no pulse and assuming she\u2019s dead, N\u00e9stor flees. But Nena survives, and years later, amid the war, they meet again. He\u2019s a member of the calvary, she a curandera, or healer. Their reunion shocks them both, with Nena unleashing her anger at N\u00e9stor for abandoning her. But soon there are bigger issues at hand, including attacks from the Yanquis and bloodthirsty creatures lurking in the dark. <strong>Compelling, steamy, and with a wonderful perspective on the War, this unique tale is not to be missed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s clear that Isabel Ca\u00f1as wants all the genres\u2014speculative, historical, horror, romance, mystery\u2014and why not? She does such a magical job of blending them together, as this follow-up to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[108,75,50,51],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-gothic","tag-horror","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Vampires-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Vampires-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}