I Can’t Wait For…Immortal Dark by Tigest GirmaI
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Immortal Dark by Tigest GirmaI!
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma Genres: Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy
Representation: Black cast
Published on: 3rd September 2024
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A dark fantasy romance where one girl must join a secret society of vampires in order to find her missing sister.
Hidden in our world, a society of vampires originating in Africa, are bound to twelve human Houses. Each House represents a bloodline more cutthroat than the next. To ensure peace and inherit their House legacy, human children of these elite families must study at an elite secret university.
Lost Heiress, Kidan Adane grew up far from Uxlay University. She is obsessively protective, mildly nihilistic, and willing to do anything to save her loved ones. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her—her own House vampire to be exact, the alluring yet dangerous Susenyos Sagad.
To find June, Kidan must study at Uxlay and live with Susenyos. It doesn’t matter that Susenyos’ violence speaks to her own and tempts Kidan to surrender to a life of darkness. She must find her sister and kill Susenyos at all costs.
When a murder mirroring June’s disappearance shakes Uxlay, Kidan sinks further into the ruthless underworld of vampires, risking her very soul. There she discovers a centuries-old threat—and June could be at the center of it. To save her sister, Kidan must bring Uxlay to its knees and either break free from the horrors of her own actions or embrace the dark entanglements of love—and the blood it requires.
I always get excited when I hear about Black vampires – especially since my favourite vampire book of all time, Darknesses – double-especially when we’re talking about a mythos that has its vampire coming from outside of Europe! Vampires originating in Africa??? GIMME!
As a worldbuilding-aficionado (*cough*worldbuilding-nut*cough*) I have so many questions about the lore Girma’s created for her vampires! What will their abilities be? Will they have an origin story/myth about their own beginnings? Will she be pulling from African mythology, and if so, which parts of Africa? And why are they tied to human houses/families? I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING!
Dark academia is something I’ve gradually become more interested in – so long as it comes with supernatural aspects – and Immortal Dark sounds like it ticks so many of my boxes. A not-NiceTM female main character? One who’s out to get her sister back, and commit some murder along the way??? It’s so ridiculously difficult to find FMCs with genuine dark sides to them, but I’m really hopeful that Girma is going to deliver in spades!
And – intoxicating, fucked-up maybe-romance??? Again: I want to see properly monstrous characters being monstrous together, okay??? IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK FOR???
What absolutely cinched the deal for me was the little excerpts of Immortal Dark I’ve seen here and there; Girma’s prose is delicious, rich and dark with gorgeous imagery. You can find short quotes over at her Instagram if you want to see for yourself!
I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT FOR THIS ONE!!!
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