Fawns Blood, Hal Schrieve
Fawns Blood, Hal Schrieve
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Fawn's Blood
A Novel

Author: Hal Schrieve

Narrator: Nicky Endres

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/17/2026


Synopsis

Librarian and critically acclaimed author of Out of Salem puts a pulpy spin on vampire fiction, and bites back at anti-trans moral panic.

Fawn and Silver share nearly everything: coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They're also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life.

Meanwhile in Seattle, Rachel's relationship to her girlfriend and her membership in her mother's vampire-slaying vigilante group is thrown into question when she's bitten by her mother's nemesis and awakes with a craving for blood. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel's fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood.

But in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Siobhan on June 01, 2025

Fawn's Blood is a young adult vampire novel about queer teenagers, vampire and human, who must fight to find ways to survive in a world that doesn't want them to. Rachel is a queer teen with a vampire slayer mother, but when Rachel is turned into a vampire, she's caught between worlds. Fawn is a tra......more

Goodreads review by Sofia on January 21, 2026

A thrill and a joy to read a book where a fat butch gets described by the main character as 'the most beautiful woman in the world'. Queer in the way I didn't know I was looking for as a young teen. GREAT vampire choices in general, wonderful beastliness (and I love that the signified and the signif......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on March 09, 2025

I am such a terrible reviewer but wanted to make sure I said something about this story that I received recently as it really deserves notice. The two points of view in this book were a wild ride, they left me in awe of the inside and outside perspectives of this vampire world. What if vampires real......more

Goodreads review by Steph (starrysteph) on January 18, 2026

Fawn’s Blood is a rowdy, heart-filled queer vampy romp. It has so many elements of my favorite young adult adventures, but mixed in was also a variety of sharp social commentary, the importance of intergenerational trust & mutual aid, and an authentic way of honoring that strange boundary that teena......more

Goodreads review by N on November 03, 2025

Fawn's Blood delivers several classic, exciting thrills from vampire lore and literature (blood drinking, undead-ness, a social underworld to explore, monstrosity) while subverting a lot of assumptions about vampires and associated tropes in exciting and juicy ways. Fawn, a trans teen girl from subu......more