Until this very moment, I hadn't yet joined the blog your review bandwagon. And, I don't really do reviews very often, but when I do.....
I GAVE THIS NOVEL ★★★★★ FATASS STARS.
LUNA SANGUIS (Luna Series Part 1)
THE BLURB:
Paris 1925. A young woman is nearing her Eternal Vampire state as her
birthday approaches. She is held captive by the hybrid vampire she
created and slowly drained of her pure blood to keep his addiction in
check. She outwits him and escapes to a chateau in the hope of reaching
maturity. But he follows her unmistakable scent and massacres all that
dare protect his supply of Eternal blood.
She awakens in a tiny room
trapped and defenceless with amnesia, but something deep in her
subconscious yearns to be set free by the next full moon – the date of
her Eternal Birthday.
Her true self, Eternal, emerges in brief
flashes of awareness to protect her from the horrors of this terrifying
prison. Desperate, she forges an alliance with her true love, a gorgeous
young doctor treating her.
But her nemesis is out there somewhere, relishing the hunt for her blood – and nothing will stop him from becoming Eternal.
THE REVIEW:
A gothic tale of love, hate, obsession, and the quest for immortality...
"The sweetest music he had ever heard slowly evaporated from his memory like the dying sighs of a thousand angels."
Eternal
- Delicate Rose - Petite Fleur, is a woman with a fractured mind from
the horrid savagery she witnessed at the hands of her pursuer, Count
Lucien.
This gothic, dark, poetic tale leads us through the twisted
mind of this poor woman as she is entrapped in the bowels of an insane
asylum reminiscent of Dante's Inferno.
She and the Count share a
commonality, they exist in a perpetual dance of love and hate, mutual
obsession. Both are inhabited by the souls of ancients entwined in an
age-old battle for her precious, eternal blood. Through snatches of
broken memory we learn Eternal has been pursued by the Count in all his
incarnations across ancient Europe, the two of them leap-frogging into
one life after another, each vying for that magic moment when her blood
will bring forth its gift of eternal life.
"He heard that word again - "Eternal" - carried on a breeze of subconscious design."
This
lost soul plays the role of Madonna, bearing aspects of pure innocence
and the predatory succubus. Through the centuries she has seduced kings,
queens, statesmen, and all manner of rulers. A muse inspiring artists
to greatness, forging conquerors from average men, she is a living
paradox, the woman every man wants but can never truly have.
Simon
Okill crafts a lyrical and disturbing story in the grand fashion of
Edgar Allan Poe, told from the perspective of tortured souls with dual
personalities. The characters are colorful, lively, despicable, yet
still lovable in their human frailty.
A genre-bender, the story
is definitely not what you would ever expect. A clever world where
nothing and no one is what they seem, a world mired in grey morality
where villains and heroes trade places like schizophrenics.
***Confession time: I read this book pre-publication, and did two rounds of edits. But so what? Its still a good book.
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