Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light by Sarah McCarry

Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light by Sarah McCarry
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Contemporary
Length: Short Story (24 pages)
Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

Sarah McCarry’s “Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light” is about a lonely young woman, recently moved to the big city, who is looking for love. What she finds is a friend and confidante who is much older and wiser than she.

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The sarcasm in this story made me smile. It existed for a specific reason, and it served that purpose well. I especially liked how it poked fun at a specific fantasy sub-genre while also wandering into that type of storytelling at times and when necessary. The contradiction between these two things was as unexpected as it was amusing.

This tale could have been interpreted in one of two contradictory ways. While I can’t go into detail about what those ways were without giving away spoilers, I do wish the narrator had given the audience more hints about both options. I adore ambiguous fiction, but I prefer to be able to point out multiple parts of a text that make it sound like a specific theory could be the right one. There weren’t quite enough examples of this for me to go for a five-star rating even though I loved the concept in general.

The most interesting scenes to me were the ones that could have easily happened in the real world because they dealt with the main character’s crushing loneliness. This wasn’t something I was expecting the narrator to cover when there were so many other things going on for the characters, but it was handled beautifully. I could feel the protagonists loneliness growing heavier by the minute. It gave me a lot of sympathy for her and made me hope she’d figure out a solution to her problems soon.

Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light should be read by anyone who prefers their vampires dark and dangerous.