SuitabookThicker Than Water
Carla Jablonski
- Reading
- Check in around the family and hospital material, then pause at the supernatural turn to ask whether the dark fantasy feels intriguing, upsetting or difficult to separate from Kia’s problems.
- Themes
- Escape and coping: Kia seeks escape while dealing with her parents’ divorce, her mother’s cancer and her workaholic father. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Performance and the supernatural: Kia joins people who dress as vampires and perform in dark clubs, then suspects that Damon may be a real vampire. The book sets up uncertainty between deliberate performance and possible supernatural reality; its eventual treatment of that distinction is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Before reading, discuss whether the reader wants a story centred on illness, divorce and an intense search for escape, alongside dark-club imagery and vampire suspense.