Black Vampires

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[00:01:03] Noted. So entertaining. So many books, so little time. And that's so powerful. So many books, so little time. I hate it. Yeah. Well, welcome back. It's another episode of the Reading Black Girls Podcast. You already know who it is, but we'll tell you again just in case you forgot. I'm Kayla. I'm Alex. I'm Nish. And I'm Aziza. And we are the Reading Black Girls. Yeah. Welcome back. Everybody clap. Everybody clap.

[00:01:32] Everybody clap. Yes. So I don't know if y'all noticed this, but we've kind of like been switching it up. Like, you know, season one, the girls were like one book, one episode. And we're just talking about that book. But we want to get deeper. We want to talk about our favorite male main characters, our favorite female main characters. And so on and so forth. And today, we're about to be in a recession. Or we're already in a recession. Okay. Listen to the economists. There you go, baby.

[00:02:02] We're in the recession. So you know what that means. Vampire time. Witch time. Right. I know that's right. We're in a Black vampire renaissance. Yes. Period. Period. It's crazy to have lived through this in our teens and then lived through this again in our 30s. Like, that's crazy. I kind of love it. It makes me feel young again. And it makes me feel young again. Yeah. I love it.

[00:02:29] The anticipation for all those vampire books. Miss Bella Girl. And there's actually, like, if you think about when we went through that first recession in 08, there weren't, I can't think of any, like, Black vampire books that come to mind. But, like, since then? The only thing was Twilight and Laurent in Twilight. Laurent was the only person. And he was only in there for a second. A few moments. Right.

[00:02:59] Right. All right. So now, now, in the year of our Lord, 2025, yeah, now we've got some material. And we've got some much-needed backstory. Like, they literally just threw Laurent in there, I feel like, just for, just to say it wasn't all white people in that movie. Right. They're like, what are you talking about? Laurent's in there. There was a black person in there. With dreads. So... They did that on purpose, for real.

[00:03:29] That wig? They did. It was... It was egregious. It was egregious. In 2008, though... And they still managed to make him look ashy. Like, they still managed to get... Oh, he was so ashy. They put white makeup. They put Caucasian makeup on him, for sure. He was so ashy. He just be... Stay black and be a vampire. Black. His eyes were already red. You have to be ashy. Do vampires... Vampires automatically ashy? It's like they're pale. And they were like, black, pale? Okay. Ash. Ash.

[00:03:59] Realistically, if you were turned into a vampire, would you want to go thousands and thousands of years and have dry skin? Like, that doesn't even make sense. I feel like they would be, like, shiny. That doesn't make sense to me. It just didn't make sense. Like, they should be shiny or, like, glowy. Yeah. Like, they just put Vaseline on. Yeah. It should look like... You know when you put lotion on a freshly washed baby? That's what I would imagine that they would look like. That's true.

[00:04:29] Because all of them got a glow up when they transformed. Right. And, like, turned beautiful, but... There were some other black vampires in media before that. Like, Akasha in Queen of the Damned. Ooh. Like, the sequel to Interview with a Vampire. Aaliyah, R.I.P.

[00:04:47] Yes, R.I.P. Vampire's kind of ugly. They said, walk it back. Because I'm trying to think, like, what other... Around that time, what other black vampires did we have? Like, I'm thinking of Vampire Diaries.

[00:05:16] I don't really remember seeing many... Oh, no. The originals. The originals. Marcel. That was in, like, the 2010s. And then... He looked good. I'm gonna do bad things to you. What's that show called? True Blood. True Blood. Oh, good. Did y'all all watch True Blood? Okay. Yeah. At a young age. Yes, I did. And re-watched it. I discovered it on accident. It's such a funny show. And I was like, uh-oh. We should have not been watching it. But it was a different time.

[00:05:47] It was so good. Yeah. 2000s, 2010s. It was meant to be. True Blood was so freaking good. So good. And Tara? She deserved more. She deserved so much more. Tara. R.I.P. Justice for her. I hated how they, like, kind of... They kept her as, like, this angry black woman. But as the show did progress, we did get more background into why she was like that. And then, like, her transforming into a vampire. No spoilers. And then, like, her death. It just...

[00:06:16] She just... I hate seeing black characters go through so much trauma. Yeah. Also, it's like... They're magical beings. If I were them, ain't nobody telling me nothing. Ain't nobody telling nothing to me either. Like, I'm sorry. I just feel like if you're around for thousands and thousands of years, like, you're not about to look at me crazy, talk to me crazy. Like, I get you have to fit in with the times. Yeah.

[00:06:43] Just imagine how exhausting that is to do that lifetime after lifetime. Right. Period after period. The way... Mm. Mm. Justice for all vampires. Particularly the blacks. Absolutely. These black, like, side character vampires for sure. Which is why, like, it's so refreshing to have books like... Um... Um... Tyjus Immortal Dark. Immortal Dark. Which was fantastic.

[00:07:13] That was a massive. So good. It was so good. And I know the girlies, like... We've got some girlies who are in it just for the vibes, for the plot. And there's other girlies who are looking for the symbolism. The... And this was a book that I felt had some symbolism. But I'm gonna be honest, I was mostly there for the plot. I just cared about what was going on with the characters. What was keeping me engaged? Like, I wasn't looking for deep symbolism. Even though, like... It was fair. If we want to get into black vampirism...

[00:07:41] You know, it's a form of, you know, freedom. Right. You know... Embracing the darkness that... Mm-hmm. Yes. The whole... Lurks you out in all the way. When they go low. No, let's go to hell. Right. Empowerment. Exactly. All that. That was the symbolism you took from... That? Yeah. No, I just mean in general. I just mean in general. Oh, okay. I just wanted to know. Yeah, no. Okay.

[00:08:08] Vampirism is like, you know, freedom from the oppressor. You rise up. Hello? Blood slaves. Clock it. Blood slaves. Clock it. Clock it. Which I did like. I like that backstory that we got. Like, vampires coming from, like, Africa. The Ramonga tribe. Yes. And then him being brought over. The whole plague situation. Like, the fact that he did have to, like, go underground. Yeah. Okay. I was like... I feel like we don't get that whole plague. No.

[00:08:35] Insertion into, like, black vampire. Because it makes sense. Or just vampires in general. It does. It happened. And it's like... Yeah. You shouldn't want to drink from anyone who is sick like that. Right. Right. And there was a lot of them that were sick. Right. The food source was... I thought it was also interesting. It was a practical typer nation. Yeah. Yeah. Like, when somebody hated you, that their hate was amplified, and that their blood would kill you. That's crazy. I like that layer of it. That was all original.

[00:09:04] I don't think that's been in any vampire, vampiric thing before. Sort of, like, the person that you're ingesting from, like, affecting you in a negative way, at least. Or in a very positive way, if that person really loved you. But still, very original. Well, I think in Anne Rice... Well, it's not exactly the same, but in Interview with the Vampire, the Black Version. The one that's out right now. The Black Version. The Black Version. The Black Version.

[00:09:34] The TV adaptation. Anne Rice. We're just gonna... But what's interesting is when they were, like, drinking blood from humans, they would, like, see their memories. And see, like, what they were feeling, what they were going through. So, very, very interesting concept. Remember in Immortal Dark, depending on where they drank from, it gave you different aspects. Different things. Yes. Different feelings. That is... I like them weird. I thought that was so excellent. I love that.

[00:10:02] Like, the neck versus, like, the wrist versus the inner thigh. God. We didn't get a lot of bites. That's the other thing. We don't get a lot of bites in other places besides, like, a neck and a wrist. There's lots of other places. I just feel like there's a lot of... Look to... Oh, look to Spinney. Oh, we're taking it there. Okay. Yeah. I hope so. You think? Are you think they're gonna go all the way? I hope so. I hope they do. It would make sense. It would make sense.

[00:10:32] For the plot. Right. Yeah, because they still got some things to uncover in that series. Oh, man. Like, there's so many unknowns that the main character... I forgot what her name is. But she still has to figure out her... No spoilers, but she's got a lot to figure out. And she needs... Susenios? Susenios. Susenios. She needs his help. Bad. I hope he just doesn't, like, screw her over or something, because he has his own wants as well. I think he...

[00:11:00] I think it's gonna be, like, this battle of will the entire time. Like, I have this mission, and you obviously have yours, but we need each other. Right. And I just... I just know she finna just give us a little smiley-poss. She's such a chaotic character. Yeah. Okay. Just... She had a mission, but Sister was... She was just doing anything. Side missions. Because she accomplished so little of her original mission, it wasn't even funny.

[00:11:29] It, like... She got so little done, because she kept getting sidetracked, distracted, in trouble, and then just wreaking havoc. Literally. For the sake of wreaking havoc, which I do love in a female character, but I was like, you have a goal, and it's kind of important, and it just feels like you're not really focused on that. Like, sister, watch in. But she was getting some stuff from her sister who was missing, and, like, getting those videos,

[00:11:58] and, like, she was kind of uncovering that it wasn't exactly what she always thought it was. And she's, like, realizing some things out, too. She's trying to pin it on somebody in particular. Right. And then it was like, oh, I really can't, because... She said, wait... They really don't have anything to do with each other. These are two separate issues. I just feel like she came to that conclusion. It took her too long to come to that conclusion. Right. She didn't come to the conclusion till the end of the book. Because she's having a sidetracked. YA, though.

[00:12:28] Yeah. Like, you have to remember. YA slash new adult, because they are in a college. I'm like, girl, she's not all over there yet. Oh. Yeah. Earthfrontalope. She's gone, honey. Can't find her anywhere. Like... She's still growing. Yeah. Correct. She was definitely still growing. I was like, I think I need Sis Años to help her out a little more, because obviously, like, he's lived through a lot. A long time. And Sissy needs a little more explanations. Right. He wasn't going to help her out too much after she went in that room and destroyed all of his stuff.

[00:12:58] Oh, he... He literally just met her. Just met him that first day. It took him a long time to get over that. Can we talk about their little interaction? Like, I'm sorry. They really had a... They were like... I loved it. Back and forth, back and forth. It was giving, like... You know how in Dragon Ball Z, when they were battling and, like, something crazy would happen, you'd think that was the last little power move, and then the other one would come back and do something. Yeah. That was crazy. Their energy. The entire time. And she was...

[00:13:28] She was like, I'm going to have the last say. And he's like... Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I was impressed by her. She is human. And you can bury it. And she was like, I don't give a fuck. And that's what made her so dangerous. Because she didn't give a damn. She really didn't. And any main character who doesn't give a damn like that... I'm scared of you. That's a loose cannon, babe. I'm scared of you. I'm scared of you. I'm sorry, but I love...

[00:13:56] Because then it's like, there's nothing... I already know there's nothing that you won't do. And then I'm like, okay, what you finna do next? Right. Because she surprised him. I'm here for it. Oh. She surprised him multiple times. And... Oh. Right. She's like, I see you. Let me reevaluate. My plan. And I raise you one crazy. Right, right. She's like, now what? Now what?

[00:14:23] So with a main character like that, do you think that she's gonna like turn or like... God, I hope so. Damn near close to it? I hope so, but I honestly think it's too soon to tell. Because so much happened in that first book that was not in like my original eyeline. That I'm like, anything could happen. Anything could happen in the second book.

[00:14:50] I actually can't wait to reread this first one and then jump into the second. Because I actually don't know what's going to take place. And I, you know, I like it like that. I want to go in raw. I want to go in without knowing anything. Yeah. But sometimes you need like a... I wish like you could have a recap episode of books. Like a quick... Like an abridged version. You know what I'm saying? Spark notes. Yeah, spark notes. Although, spark notes, let me just... Sometimes they're little summaries for the chapters are long.

[00:15:19] I'm like, I might as well have just read the book. It'd be like you keep scrolling and scroll. It's like, okay, I'll just... I'll just read it. I think I'm going to re-listen to it for sure. Absolutely. Before I go into the second. Oh, absolutely. Are you going to re-listen to like This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings? No, because I remember that one very well. I sure do remember. That was a play-by-play. We know where that left off. Yeah.

[00:15:47] And actually, I don't need to reread that. That book sparked a lot of emotions. Let me bring her to the front. Put your purse on, lady. Put your purse on. Put your purse on. Look at her. Wow. So pretty. I'm here. I'm going to hang her over my shoulder. That's a gorgeous cover. We've got to go. Yeah. Ta-ta. Bye-bye. We're just a book. BT dubs. And a bookmark.

[00:16:14] If you have not considered getting one of those Corinne Marie bookmarks, you absolutely should. It's worth it. I love mine. Yeah. The rightful creator of that invention. Clock it. Clock it. Clock that. Clock it. Gives sis her rights. I know we've said like, it just feels like within the past 20 years, 20 years or so. I'd say 15 years. Like there's been more black vampire books, but we do have some old school heavy hitters like My Soul to Keep.

[00:16:44] By Tanana Bidu. That's the Zizel's girl. I was about to say, you got to give her a moment. I can't just like. Yeah, let her. Let her go off. Hit it off sis giddy. Let her go off for a second. Let's talk about this for a second, y'all. I'm actually not going to give you anything. That is to this day, my absolute, one of my absolute favorite book series ever. It is so well done. It goes so in depth. I'm not even going to say anything else.

[00:17:11] I'll just say, I'm not going to say anything else, but I will say, go back. Just because the book didn't come out in the last five years doesn't mean that it is not excellent. Good is good. Good is good. And that series is great. Like, especially if you're interested in like kind of vampires, mythical beings, and how they like merge with like the normal world. That book could. Matter of fact, I'm going to make one, two, three, read it. All four books.

[00:17:40] Cause I've had enough. Actually. I've had enough. I'm down. I'll be reading it. I have read My Soul to Keep. But then. There's three other books. I know. I had other things happening and I had to take a pause. Okay. You know how I am. That's live. That's live. It's still on my like reading list. But I think. Right. Maybe we could try and read it. At the top of next year. I got too much going on y'all. I got 43 books on hold on. She said. Let me be realistic.

[00:18:08] Why are you acting like that happened to you? You did that. It just happened. Y'all. I don't know what. It just happened. She just kept pressing hold. Hold. Hold. Basically. And then it was like ready. Deliver. Deliver. Deliver. Yeah. And I was like. Wait a minute. Later. Later. Later. And then later comes. Or like. I guess the other people are saying. The other people are doing the same thing. Because I'm like. How do I send the book? I said. Give me 30 days. Why is it back two days later?

[00:18:38] Everybody does the same. Does yours do that? Or are you really not. No. I'm being so dead ass. That's crazy. I always. That's crazy. Because when I'm delivered later. 30 days. Give me 30 days. Oh. Give me three. Give me four. See how I do. Like a nice like week. I kind of do the same. It depends on the book. Just because I want to like. Get it back. So I know that I can get it back. But I'm not ready right now. So I'm sending it back. Give me five days. Yeah. I'll be different then. I'll be ready. So. I'm the same. It's just happening. And then we still have.

[00:19:07] All these other books to read. Oh. I'm so stressed. It's just. Dressed in the best way. Problem to have. It's a good problem. But it is stressful. Shout out to the library. Shout out Libby. Shout out Libby. Love y'all. Shout out Libby. Real. And there's still some other. Black vampire books that. I think came out last year. They're coming out this year. But. Aziza you read Secret Life of Maggie Gray.

[00:19:35] Nish you read Secret Life of Maggie Gray. Don't get me. Kayla did you read Secret Life of Maggie Gray. By Granger. And not. Not yet. But guess what just came up on Libby. Okay. I'm not even going to lie to you. It's on Libro too. I thought. Kayla. We have it on. We have it. But it also came up on my. Libby. This episode. That we're doing right now. Is your sign. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. If you're going to be drinking. Pumpkin Spice. And ushering at all. You better go ahead. And hit accept. On that. On that hole.

[00:20:06] I can't. I already said. Hey. Well go. Go hop on the Libro account. Hit download. Cue it up. Why is she dancing? Get it. Fitted into the rotation. Don't make. Don't piss me off. I've got. I'm going to get. I'm going to get to it. Before the end of this year. How about that? Let me tell you what else. You're going to get to. Okay. Scout's honor. Tanana Reeve-Dew's book. Okay. You might as well. If we're going to be spooky. We're going to be spooky. You know I don't like being spooky. No.

[00:20:35] We're going to make you be a little spooky. You have to. I have to formally request. We have to formally put in a request. Because it's pumpkin spice season. The fall leaves are falling. You literally have. It's time. The rest of September. October and November. Because we can be a little spooky still in November. Just a little bit. But the mugs keep acting like they have somewhere to go. Well. Yeah. That's why you need to act like you have somewhere to go. I need you to start reading these books.

[00:21:04] We don't have time anymore. Start reading. Pick it up. Matter of fact. I'll bring you a physical copy. Because I know how sometimes you don't really like to listen. I have the horrors. I'll bring you a physical copy. Because it'll just sit on that shelf, child. No. She'll put it next to her bed maybe. And it'll sit next to my bed for months. I would hate to have to bring a redacted to your house. And force you to read. But I will. I don't want to have to do this. But I think I. Yeah. I feel it in my spirit.

[00:21:34] I have to. Yeah. I'm pulling up. I'm pulling up. Well. It's time. I did the work. I just need a little time to go through my backlog of many, many books. But like. Okay. But why? Let's be for real. The backlog's not going anywhere. It's not going anywhere. None of these books are. Listen, listen, listen. I already have six books that I'm reading right now.

[00:22:04] Maybe seven. Okay. Okay. Wait. What are they? Okay. Let's hold. Oh my. She said let's cue it up. Let's cue it up. Let's cue it up. Okay. And. Blood in the Water. Tiffany D. Jackson. Shout out to you sister. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston. Shout out to Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Heat. By Baloo. By Baloo. Yes. That's actually what you need to pick up. It's so good. It is. I'm about to start it. Fabulous.

[00:22:34] Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I've been like 50% for like a month. I just need to. You know when you're like, it's not a DNF. It's I'm Coming Back. That's that one. Okay. Boomtown by Nick Stone. Fabulous. Well, we're reading that for book club. So you can wait on that. You could pause that. That's why. That's why I haven't been reading it. Okay. So take one off. I'm right. Still on. And she's coming back to the other one. So take two off. Right. Okay. I'm still reading Cappadonna 2.

[00:23:04] Don't take that off. You can come. You can. Whatever you do. That's what I've been doing. She's still reading Cappadonna 2. She can come back. We just took three books off the list. So go ahead. No, no, no, no, no. Put one. No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to finish Cappadonna. I'm going to finish Cappadonna 2 in the next week. Oh, I can't wait for this. Well, you need to finish. The Great Man by Skyra Davis-Lurie. So good. And James by Percival Everett. I've been reading James. Wait, wait, wait. Keep her time out. Nisha and Alex.

[00:23:34] Okay, so y'all read The Great Man. Nisha and Alex, I haven't finished. Oh, I have. I read it before we went to Atlanta. And Kayla, you read The Great Man? I'm like 40% in. That's on the Libra account. Great Gatsby retelling. She's clicking her pen. You love it. She's clicking her pen, people. You're right. Well, actually, we haven't really talked about it. You don't know my feelings on The Great Gatsby. Oh. Oh. But you do love a retelling.

[00:24:04] Did you not enjoy it? I did. Let's just talk about it. Let me be honest. Enjoy that book. Look, this is the moment where we're going to do. There's no vampires in that book. We're going to do that. We'll save that for another episode. Well, yep. We'll talk about that later. Control it. Okay, but. It's hard. So then let's bring it back. Kayla, there's also. You have space to put in at least Maggie Gray.

[00:24:32] I will say that because that one is very good. You'll really enjoy it. I'll start it. It's a good time. What month is this? No, no. I don't want you to just start it. I want you to read it. Enjoy it. Yeah, no, I'll start it next month. I will. Yeah. This month. And you get to listen to it. Next month. Yes. Well, there's only two more weeks till next month, basically. So. Well, I'm trying to find through these holds that I have on Libby. Because I have two very popular books. We're not going to get into that.

[00:25:01] But yes, I will start Maggie Gray next month. Also, have y'all heard of the Gilda story? That's another like. Yes. Vampire. I have a hold on Libby for that. Let me. It's not available. It's several months. Oh. Yeah. And I checked all eight of my libraries. Oh. Eight? It's very popular. You'll get it when you get it. Yeah. I'm going to get it whenever. And whenever it comes, I'm going to take it. And we're going to go on a journey. That's a nice surprise.

[00:25:30] Like, oh, I forgot. Oh. I requested this. And now it's here. Exactly. Take it for yourself. When you see somebody talk about it on threads or I see it on like stories, I'll immediately go to Libby, put it in and then press, put on hold. And that's how I'm in the position I'm in now. Oh. That's smart. Because I just bookmark it. And I forget to go back and look in my bookmark. Right. I'm going to take it a step further, sister. I'm going to try that. Did you read the bookmark?

[00:25:59] No, I just bought it recently. Okay. I just bought a copy. Okay. But I do like Alexis Henderson. Yeah. I do want to read. She's got some bangers. Yeah. Have y'all read Alexis Henderson? I just read my first bookmark. No, she's got some bangers though. Which one? And I, um, hang on. Let me look. Hang on. Is it like- Didn't she write The Year of the Witching? That one. I read that one. I was scared. That one is scary. That one is actually scary. An Academy for Liars as well. Yes. That one is so good. I think that's one that I put on my list.

[00:26:30] She's like, honestly, like a really good fall read author. She just is going to be this dark. Take it there. Yeah. And she will actually scare you. She's like my goth, baddie writer. Yeah. Like she's scary. I love it. That's right. That eats. Clock it. So put that on the list for fall. I'll read that with you, Alex.

[00:26:57] Also, we've been, I feel like over the past year, we've been reading more like Octavia Butler. Um. um fledgling queen gonna definitely read fledgling this season yeah it's time we've been doing more classics and honestly yeah we have i consider that a classic absolutely really anything by by miss octavia it kind of is automatically a classic i don't know well yeah you think first

[00:27:23] there's there's butler scholars like people academics like read all of her stuff and dissect it year after year like she's the grand for their thesis right right the grand dom right let's get into it i five one of the first names obviously should be octavia butler right i'm sure she's not on that list she's somebody's gotta go to trust that list you can't right straight to jail

[00:27:52] because what even is your list what what even is happening here butler that's a good point right y'all still haven't read some of my favorite octavia butler books though okay this is the time honestly fall is like sci-fi time to me like i love spooky stuff but like fall is a good like time to read sci-fi correct which i am ready to read some sci-fi like thriller sci-fi fantasy that's what fall

[00:28:19] is that's what fall that's all it is and then of course like a little historical fiction like i just feel like yes yes historical fiction is all year round yeah yeah yeah honestly every month you should read anyone but you're right we should be reading like oh she in it when when i know that's right

[00:28:44] yeah which y'all is blood slaves it's fantasy but like alternative history is that considered sci-fi that's sci-fi right or no i don't know if i would be sci-fi but it's definitely i feel like a genre of fantasy let's see yeah that i would also consider that historical because it was set in slavery and actually let's get back to that book yeah let's go back to what i do have something that

[00:29:12] i need to get off my chest oh i'm sorry marcus redmond saying so when we were talking about our unspoken rules we're like do not read a book without aziza unless it's not slavery which is very important that's a very important rule for us marcus was like so i'm assuming this was hard for her it was yeah marcus you'd be right i didn't think it was funny he said so she broke her rule for

[00:29:40] blood slaves right i did break my rule i actually i stand on it i thought it was quite cruel that i had to host the book club that month for the book um well just to say it was my pick so you could blame it on me or say that you did it for my birthday pick for august that's okay it was just that and that was just our schedule you were just you were next up to schedule

[00:30:08] it just happened and sometimes you know you have to just like the bullet take one for the team right like i didn't want to do chain gang all stars oh but i did it real oh that's a good point there you go sometimes we just most books we honestly want to happen maybe even new year else is making that's okay we can uh right

[00:30:34] but honestly the look at the schedule and whoever's month is maybe we could maybe switch or something yeah or switch i also didn't ask to switch so i was like you know what challenge yourself and let me tell you it was a challenge not because it got real bad in blood slaves it wasn't good but right it was it was so graphic the dialogue yeah and i really it shocked me my biggest issue with the book or like my least

[00:31:03] favorite part was i personally did not feel that the revenge equaled the suffering that was just that that was that was my biggest thing because i remember reading some of the scenes about like essay and the brutality and all that and i was and i was like wow i really hope the ends justify these means and yeah they got their lick back they're dead they could have went a little harder

[00:31:32] you could it wouldn't have been right but you could have took them as slaves and tortured them and made them do well that's true killing them was too easy it was too easy they're dead they're done yeah sure well the deaths were make them suffer not but they didn't suffer enough for me and that was that was like 24 hours of just kind of crazy they could have like stretched it out a bit but

[00:31:57] they were like trying to still have the element of surprise right and they were a lot of different things if it would have been longer if it would have been longer than the 24 hours they could have alerted people nearby right then it would have been a mob they didn't have they didn't have time on their side so they're like we're gonna make a do what to do baby but also also there's a book too so i just feel like he's making this into a series i just feel like they got some things they gotta deal

[00:32:24] with okay because they didn't quite make the right decision there at the end with miss ma'am i'm not gonna get say anything more than right you know and now they gotta deal with that and now they gotta protect their kingdom i think there's gonna be some battle of wills i think we gonna maybe turn this into a we on a campaign now okay i'm gonna be honest i see why harriet left people just based off of some of the things i saw in that book some of the characters i'm like i see

[00:32:49] why harriet left some of y'all yeah everyone can't go everyone can't go everyone doesn't see the vision and that's okay to freedom right and if you're on a time crunch you don't got time to sit here debate and go back and forth with you trying to convince you to save yourself okay bye right this is where you want to be and this is where you want to stay fine but don't get in the way of everybody else right wants to leave correct so i mean and now they well let me not get into it but

[00:33:19] they have some things to figure out in the second i will be reading the second book i'm curious about what the name would be aziza willingly reading about slavery everyone please be quiet for a second yeah wow i mean she didn't take it back wow i didn't tears are hurting here first breaking news

[00:33:44] yeah i'll read the second one too that's amazing i hope it's just a duology i'm hoping so too don't drag it out mark is don't drag it out mark is mark is you can mark is you can write making no keep it tight keep it tight because let me tell you the vampire aspect was excellent i was so intrigued by the story i wanted to know more about the ramanga tribe i wanted to know i hope they give us a

[00:34:11] prequel i could do a prequel novella that would be excellent more about like what was going on during the plague times but um i want the person who turned that the og i want her i want the origin i want her story yeah that origin from the beginning because i was like oh wait hold up because like this was fairly early on it's not like we were close to 1776 because a lot of them had already heard

[00:34:35] and known from their tribes like back home yeah they were like that's just like they were still right coming over so i would be very interested they're like they're dead their name precedes them so legend like that's just something we tell children to scare them right right if it's if not a prequel then this second book i would love for it to get way more into like their backstory

[00:35:03] less slave more vampire right right more revenge and i think because he probably took so much time to like really emphasize like the cruelty that they were experiencing possibly in this second book like we don't necessarily have to go in as deep and it could be more revenge that's a good point yeah because their circumstances are different now they are true that's very true i realized the book is

[00:35:27] labeled as also horror so oh that's yeah it was so gruesome it was horrific yeah things that we were rooting that's a very yeah very very gruesome very graphic so that is 41 minutes in if you're still listening that is a very graphic book trigger warning trigger warning don't pick that up it is extremely

[00:35:53] graphic in every single sense of the word um i mean the imagery is astounding i will it's very well written which is why i'm willing to read that second book but um yeah if you want some vampires y'all should pick that one up if you don't mind gruesome storytelling about the realities of slavery

[00:36:18] well let me flip it to this what author would you like to see write a black vampire book such a great question tiffany d jackson nia davenport nia davenport i was speaking about lazelle so good rivers solomon yeah that would do it for me

[00:36:43] do it for me yeah actually there's there's actually very few authors who i wouldn't want to write a black vampire book because we read so many excellent authors right i would love for tracy beyond to take a stab at it oh my god if she had the time she had the time she had the time even roseanne a brown um who did a song of psalms of what is it wrath and

[00:37:10] wraith and ruin wraith and ruin yeah because that still is my favorite duology that i've ever read um even in fantasy it was it's so well done so i would love you know what everybody pick up your pen right now if you're listening and start writing if this is speaking to you yeah get on that work immediately please open up that word document just just let it go right clicky clack yeah let the

[00:37:40] pang go that would be really good oh not just getting excited we just need more something we made up we need more we just need more like that's the message here of course it's not coming like right now but like it's coming years i we can wait i still would want to read it yeah oh yeah it's not gonna change i want to read it all the time i want to watch it all the time too real true we need more adaptations

[00:38:06] we just need more like black vampires in movie like sinners did wonders in that box original like blew it out the water water child and it wasn't no daggone remake okay it sure wasn't that's original fabulous news so good we haven't seen before stop but it was so well thought out you would think that there was source material for it i mean right right yeah right and i'm sure

[00:38:34] who knows how that whoever's brain was working there but like they took it there and i walked out of that theater and legit i could have turned my little right back around and watch it again and watch it again that's saying something for you for weeks after i was like man i just want to go see sinners again like right let's go see sinners again that's the girl that don't do repeats and i don't do repeats i don't even re-watch movies and even if it's like my favorite or shows yeah i don't

[00:39:03] re-watch shows don't re-watch movies don't re-read books sorry my memory's just too good i just remember everything it's just too familiar i need new but that sinners we ain't we ain't twins we cousins yeah yeah we need some more of that on my screen right yeah thank god it's on hbo max but

[00:39:27] we do need some more of that exactly this weekend i'm ready for interview with the vampire season yeah yeah jacob anderson if you're listening right now you ate down as louis babe you eat down best louis out there that's louis out there brad pitt brad pitt couldn't stand it hold a candle to

[00:39:51] you you don't even know what a candle is sam reed stamp sam reed ate it okay honestly best french ever them two claudias are two claudias he's the best frenchman ever and he's like australian right yes probably like british he really does that what did he say alex what did he say

[00:40:16] i saw your hearts dancing he was watching us like some creeper i like to do it why you gotta kill people like that man i like to do it oh and he's so crazy he's just crazy in the best way possible and him being like lestat from like queen of the damned era lestat in this season

[00:40:44] three is gonna be so excited like yes i can't stop talking about him can't wait very excited to like kind of re-watch season two i like watch season two in like clips because i didn't have amc but i'm gonna watch it when it comes on netflix at the end of this month real it's gonna be so good so freaking good so good them two claudia's the end of this month

[00:41:10] yes the end of september they were coming back on to netflix so much to look forward to this yes so much i don't know when that season three comes out and media i think season three it comes out next year so long from now it ain't that long sister the month's moving that's right around the flying by flying saying hi and then heading out it's the first and then the 30th hello whoa that's

[00:41:36] real yes alarming yeah very excited to watch it though very yeah jacob anderson you jacob anderson that's my baby gray worm like y'all don't know him he should be a vampire in more stuff he needs to do more like supernatural roles for sure he's just really fantastic yeah get in that bag

[00:42:01] we love that okay well um i'm not gonna say um i was about to say something crazy but you know it is a fantastic time to be alive and to be a lover of black fiction because we've got it all baby we've got it all so i love that for us yeah period such a good time to be alive right now

[00:42:28] real because who would have thought when we were like 15 that any of this would be out right now exactly not me not me surely not me coming from ashy laurent okay to jacob anderson's role as louis hello hello to michael b jordan michael b jordan michael b jordan michael b jordan i do this food she do not really had no clue he ate down with that one and did

[00:42:54] two times just look so good with them bangs you know like the eyes like them eyes that little smirk right please a little swag a little personality and that's what and that's what you would expect from a vampire who is black like you gotta have a girl yeah we need that so thank you

[00:43:19] like vampires aren't monolith they're not all ashy yeah right but not too much thank you because laurent walked so michael b could soar okay that's true we have to start was he even black in the book yeah well you know that described him as like dark dark okay dark yeah his ebony skin

[00:43:44] the word probably was used in there right i'm gonna eat more than that and i'm not gonna hold you i don't need another stephanie meyer book i'm i'm i know through the grapevine we're hearing that she's gonna come out with another book another anniversary and i'm like not gonna hold you i don't need it at all thanks yeah that's okay you can keep that to yours that was plenty thank you though right but i will be watching we're moving along i will be watching it this fall as i do every year because that's just teenage kayla she just has to she's got to keep up the tradition

[00:44:15] true agreed i'm i will we'll continue watching in in those times when i really want to watch something like that but i'm hoping that something else comes out to replace twilight in all of our lives like as a movie franchise or tv show yeah oh yes praying please for it maybe in the next 10 years who knows for me it's bridgerton oh yeah oh yeah i need something a little spookier a little moodier a little more gothic much more gothic real

[00:44:45] much fully different direction kayla you know when you're talking about but i'm also watching the original so that's my vampire so yeah so yes we had fun talking about black vampirism everything black vampirism books media movies everything and we hope you enjoyed the time with us as well comment below i don't

[00:45:12] where are you listening to this or d don't dms if there's a post related to this so that's where we draw the line we still go through these dms it's so many dms it's just don't do it because it might get lost it might get lost but comment what author do you want to write the next great black vampire book

[00:45:33] yeah let's see please let's see very interested to know flow let's let's debate a little thank you for joining us this has been another episode of the reading black girls podcast we'll see you next time love y'all bye