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.

If Rachel writes it, I am reading it and I will be having bad dreams about it!!!! This book was consuming and weird and hard to put down, I really enjoyed it.

First, thank you Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me access to this e-arc. Second, I give this book 2.5/5 stars but rounded up to 3. I was very excited for this book as I’ve heard such good reviews for the author and her other titles but I was pretty disappointed… I was ready for my first vampire read of spooky season and I got pretty much two girls being controlled by their thirst and resentment. The title is very fitting but I feel there was so much potential and it fell short in my opinion.

During a surprise birthday, weekend getaway with her best friend Naomi, Sloane gets the surprise of her death, errr, I mean life.

Sloane and Naomi are complete opposites, but opposites attract, right? While Sloane is cautious and careful, Naomi is wild and carefree. After being invited to a stranger's mansion for a party, Naomi and Sloane find themselves in the middle of an orgy of a hot and steamy mix of eccentric, wealthy foreigners. Faithful to her cheating husband, Sloane denies her attraction to the strange guy in attendance, at first... giving in to her sexual prowess, Sloane encounters a dangerous situation, one that will change her life forever.

Fun, short and full of blood-sucking vamps, Rachel Harrison draws you right in! A TWISTED ending that was the perfect conclusion! LOVED!

Sloane Parker is in her mid-30s, married to a cheater and stagnant in life. Her husband sends her on a girls weekend with her bff Nay, who is always up for pushing limits and adventure. A visit to a crazy party takes things too far — and then they get really thirsty. The kind of thirst that just won’t go away until it is satisfied. It’s no spoiler that this is a vampire story. It’s fun, light and has good writing. Good for the spooky season!

Thank you Netgalley and Berkeley for a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you so much to Berkley for the gifted copy of So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison! 🍷

I enjoyed this one so much, it really felt like a story with no concrete plot? I loved the friendship between Sloane and Naomi, especially how it took center stage and came into play during that crucial moment. Ultimately I adored the transformations and how it pushed Sloane to take a clear view on her life and become more confident and driven. Naomi was always a larger-than-life character who was really there for a good time, not a long time 😗

Overall, super enjoyed this one! Maybe wished there had been more vampirisms and a more conclusive ending, it was abrupt and it almost felt like it was setting up something more?

Sloane doesn’t need a reminder that she’s getting older. When her husband books her a weekend getaway with her best friend Naomi, she anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and avoiding her real-life problems (like her shaky marriage). But Naomi has other plans, and when she plans a night out with mysterious strangers, the two women have to reckon with changes to their lives for forever.

This smart, character-driven novel about vampires offers readers a somewhat fresh perspective. The exploration of aging is well done, and the unique twist of taking away the option of aging from the protagonist allows for tension in the novel. There are some cliches here (a brooding male love interest, questions about the ethics of animal blood vs. human, etc.), but what Harrison excels at is writing complicated, nuanced, and layered female friendships. That’s on full display here as Sloane and Naomi end up confronting the issues in their relationship as they face a literal forever together. An entertaining - if uneven - take on the vampire genre and perfect reading for spooky season.

I was a little disappointed with this one. The story was good but the ending was lacking in my opinion. I felt like it was abrupt and forced. If this was a series of books, the ending would work. I believe this is a standalone book. Because of the ending, I probably won’t recommend it to anyone. Overall I gave it 2.5 stars because the rest of the story was good.

I had a coworker describe this book as a fun read about two friends. I have to admit that I didn't understand what she meant when I first started the book, but after finishing it, I can totally understand. The characters and the situation were right up my ally and I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish.