Sloane is a woman that is living a very routine life, has a cheating husband, & feels very indifferent to the life she's living. Her best friend, Naomi, is the complete opposite & wants Sloane to live it all. When a weekend birthday retreat that was meant for wine tasting takes a darker turn, both woman's lives are changed for eternity.

I had such a good time reading this book. I loved all the chaos the women put themselves in & how they faced their situation. I love stories that show strong female friendships, Sloane & Naomi were a great pair. I enjoyed all the horror & creepy vibes it offered. It was so fast paced & i could not put it down. I highly recommend if your in the mood for an action packed paranormal thriller!

Incredibly enjoyable (maybe a little bit less so right before your birthday like I did)! I never expected a vampire mid-life crisis novel but this was well executed and I loved and hated both Sloane and Naomi.

“Aging isn’t just about our bodies decaying while we’re still inside them. It’s about living with the accumulation of experiences. The heavy burden of the ugly ones, the longing for the beautiful.”

Sloane and Naomi are best friends, even though they are complete opposites. For Sloane’s birthday, they go away on a little trip. They decide to meet up with some beautiful, mysterious strangers. What could go wrong?

I fully expected this to be a 5 ⭐️ read. While I loved some of Harrison’s other books, it pains me to say this one wasn’t for me. Reading this was an odd experience because I felt no connection with any of the characters. Something felt missing. There were parts I did like. Harrison always does a phenomenal job at mixing cozy, witty, and dark. I enjoyed the theme of self discovery. I really loved the vampires and kind of wish we got more background and lore.

This book was about vampires, yes, but it was also about friendship. I think what turned me off was how insufferable I found Naomi to be. Maybe I’m being a tad harsh, but it’s been a while since a character made me feel like I’ve had enough 😭 It made it difficult for me to root for the friendship when I didn’t like their relationship.

I really wanted to love this and am sad I didn’t. I’ve seen so many amazing reviews so I’m glad others had a much better reading experience!

This has been the first book I have binged since giving birth & I’m ecstatic about it! So Thirsty was such a treat and I’m glad I saved it for spooky season!

More than a story about vampires, it’s a story about getting older, feeling stuck but being too scared to do anything about it, found families and fierce friendships.

Sloane is stuck living a complacent life, she’s not necessarily happy but she doesn’t want to rock the boat and have to start over. That is until she’s forced to… after a girls weekend with her best friend, Naomi, goes left. 🩸🩸🩸

I loved Sloane & Naomi’s friendship, how it was messy but also full of love.

Read if you like:
🩸 Moderate Gore
🩸 Female Friendships & Found Family
🩸 Toxic Relationships
🩸 Identity Questions

Twilight for adults: an older Bella, less romance, more gore 🫣

Thank you @berkleypub for my #gifted copy!

If you’re looking for a Halloween read that you can binge in the next 24 hours, this is the book for you!

Sloane is dreading her birthday, but her husband has surprised her with a trip with her best friend, Naomi, to celebrate. On their girl’s weekend, Naomi takes the pair out for a wild night that ends with some pretty big consequences.

I highly recommend going into this book blind. It’s a wild ride that will sink its teeth into you.

So Thirsty is a perfect Halloween read!

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Who doesn't love a vampire story around Halloween? This was definitely a fun read, although I wasn't crazy about the ending. It was kind of like, ok they're vampires now, so now what? Let's cause some havoc, but then....what?? What really comes next? I know that's something they need to figure out but I feel like there was a lot of unanswered plot points.

This is the third book I've read from this author, and it did not disappoint! I love how she writes, and it's always the perfect blend of horror and humor. I really loved her spin on vampire lore and absolutely loved all the vampires in this! I loved every scene with Henry and co and craved more! I did struggle with some of the pacing of this book and felt a little disconnected with Sloan, the main character,but overall, I really had a lot of fun reading this

I'm just going to hop off the Rachel Harrison train. ALL her dang books sound so good then I read them and Meh?

Booksource: Netgalley in exchange for review.

So Thirsty is about a weekend trip that goes wrong. It's a story about friendship and proves that even if you've been turned into vampires, that doesn't fix your friendship. In many ways, Sloane and Naomi have to contend with immortality, but also their opinions and diverging paths that happened before their weekend trip. It's immediately eerie. So Thirsty explores friendship and bonds that push and pull. About how friends know how to hurt us, but also how to support us.

I finished this and gave it 3 stars, i did debate a 2 i can't lie. but overall i liked some parts of this book i was just kinda bored for lots of it. I wanted more horror, i loved the body horror moments, the scene with the old woman was a 5 star scene for me! But i felt like the horror in this was lacking and the motivations of the vamps was confusing to me. I loved the vamp lore and I LOVED HENRY (the romantasy girly in me coming out, i kept wanting more of them). but i struggled so hard to care about either of the two girls and their toxic friendship. I agree with mel that the end was very lackluster.

But i also can appreciate the conversation that happened. But i couldn't relate to it which i think might have been part of the problem for me.

I found this to be an entertaining but average read. I tend to really enjoy the way Rachel Harrison writes. She makes me laugh with some of the ridiculous descriptors she uses, and she's very good at capturing the different forms of female experience. I definitely found a lot to like in this story re: themes, but the characters were mostly annoying and petty imo. I def enjoy a story with messy characters and difficult relationships; however, this was a miss for me in that area.

This book was a wild ride! It keeps the heart of female friendship and adds the fun element of vampirism and discovering who you want to spend your life with when you’re immortal.

Fun, fast-paced, voicey, perfect spooky season read. It's not the most mind-blowing book, but it has fun musings on aging and friendship.

This is definitely one of those "it wasn't for me" sort of things. I can see why a lot of people rave about her... but I also think she is not well marketed for what she writes. I got a very cozy book compared to what I was anticipating. So maybe that's still on me. But even for what it was, I just didn't feel much of a draw to it. It was fine? I finished it? I just didn't really feel anything towards it

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Sloane Parker is feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway—not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues she’d rather not confront, like her husband’s repeated infidelity.

When they arrive at their rental cottage, it becomes clear Naomi has something else in mind. She wants Sloane to stop letting things happen to her, for Sloane to really live. So Naomi orchestrates a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers, only for it to take a horrifying turn that changes Sloane’s and Naomi’s lives literally forever. The friends are forced to come to terms with some pretty eternal consequences in this bloody, seductive novel about how it’s never too late to find satisfaction, even though it might taste different than expected.

From the blurb above, the book really sold me. Who doesn't love a mature woman becoming a vampire? That's the time to become one in my opinion because you are at the age where you know who you are and don't have to waste time with that on top of learning how to be a vampire. Unfortunately, this book is the exception to that rule for me. It takes place over the course of about a week. Sloane and Naomi are best friends and it definitely gave me Thelma and Louis vibes, but the story mostly focused on how thirsty they are and what trouble comes from that. The group of random strangers aren't with them for long before the duo leaves to go their own way (which I don't think is very bright) Sloane is feeling resentful that she's in this situation because her best friend likes to live her life and pretend there's no consequences leaving Sloane to be the responsible one. I barely got through this book and I was mostly waiting for the cool things that vampires in this world can do (spoiler: nothing) Very disappointing.

I cannot get through spooky season without reading a Rachel Harrison novel. I absolutely cannot do it. Please don’t make me. This year’s very welcome edition to her lineup is all about vampires and I was there for it.

While it’s hard for me to put my finger on the exact Je ne sais quoi Harrison so masterfully instills in her books, it has a lot to do with the foreboding atmosphere and sense of doom she creates. Her plot lines are fun in that chaotic roller coaster way that leaves you heart racing and breathless, but more than that, there is just the most perfect vibe. Let’s call it campy meets over the top horror - and yet somehow still pretty scary. How she does this sometimes seems like pure magic.

This cinematic atmosphere Harrison creates and drops her edgy and well developed characters into, now becomes a hyper focused lens through which we can absorb her wildly outrageous tales. And wild they are! Yet somehow, no matter how audacious, she also manages to apply a critically important underlying social message, taking what seems like a far fetched story, and making it uniquely personal.

🎧 Since I am me, I of course had to try both the ebook and audiobook formats of this one. While I enjoyed the physical read, the audiobook takes it to another level. Brittany Pressley narrates - need I say more? Definitely read this one with both your eyes and your ears simultaneously for the best mood setting book of the season. Trust me 🍸🩸

Read if you like:
▪️vampires
▪️spooky season vibes
▪️feminist undercurrents
▪️female friendship
▪️books that are a vibe

Thank you Berkley Pub for the advanced copy.

This was definitely an interesting book. I'm a big fan of vampires, so I was excited to read this book. While I enjoyed it, I felt like it ended really abruptly.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review an advanced copy of this novel. I highly enjoyed it and will be recommending it. Love the book, Ms. Harrison is always unique with her plots.

I think if you're a fan of literary fiction with a side of horror, this book could really work for you. Unfortunately, it did too little of the things I was enjoying. I loved the vampires, and it felt kind of like a religious cult, but we didn't get enough of their story. I HATED the friend, and I felt like she read way younger than middle age and because of that, it was hard to get on board with our main characters.

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Sloane and Naomi are longtime friends who meet up to celebrate Sloane's birthday and when Naomi drags Sloane out to party, things take a turn. Suddenly Naomi and Sloane have to deal with their lives completely changing and the consequences. Overall, fans of vampire fiction will enjoy this one although this one does focus on their friendship and the issues they had been avoiding.