Vampires of El Norte

I went into this book completely blind and was not dissappointed. in "Vampires of El Norte" we follow Nena and Nestor, two childhood best friends ripped apart after tragedy strikes. The story essentially begins 9 years after that tragedy. Nena and Nestor have to navigate through old feelings , all the while a war rages on in the "background". And even though the Romance is the main plot of this book, the war and time period very much played a big part in this. Themes explored: Racism, Classism, Womanhood in the 1840, Forbidden love & of course the vampires(just not in the way some readers might like)