![]() Butler, keeping tension high, reveals the mysteries of the Ina universe bit by tantalizing bit. The lone survivor, Shori must rely on a few friendly (and tasty) people to help her warn other Ina families and rediscover herself. ![]() Shori was their most successful experiment: she can stay conscious during daylight hours, and her black skin helps protect her from the sun. As is later revealed, her family and their symbionts were murdered because they genetically engineered a generation of part-Ina, part-human children. They are Ina, and they've coexisted with humans for millennia, imparting robust health and narcotic bliss with every bite to their devoted human blood donors, aka "symbionts." Shori is a 53-year-old Ina (a juvenile) who wakes up in a cave, amnesiac and seriously wounded. ![]() They need human blood to survive, but they don't kill unless they have to, and (given several hundred years) they'll eventually die peacefully of old age. “The much-lauded Butler creates vampires in her 12th novel (her first in seven years) that have about as much to do with Bram Stoker's Dracula as HBO's Deadwood does with High Noon. ![]()
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