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Quick Points
- This chunk of a read was enthralling (pun intended) from beginning to end.
- The emotional devastation in this book is skyscraper high but worth it.
- Gabriel is the perfect protagonist, with enough dry sarcasm to drain a river dry & enough cussing to make a pirate blush.
- This story harkens back to more traditional evil vampires
- The artwork on every single different edition of this book is absolutely stunning, & the artwork throughout the book is exquisite.
Jay Kristoff once again shows why he is one of modern Masters of Fantasy (and Sci-Fi) with this brilliant & masterful tale filled with everything from love, courage, arrogance, bloodlust, vengeance, loss, flawed characters & a dash of heroism.
The characters relationships with Gabriel (& with each other to a lesser extent) really drove this novel more than anything else & you were in for some big twists throughout it, never trust first impressions good or bad, & never assume even the smallest details are insignificant is all I can say! This book was everything I was hoping for from a vampire book, taking it back to more traditional vampires as opposed to pretty boy sparkly ones, I have no doubt it will be classed a must-read classic before long. It was worth every scream of anger, all the tears, all the clenching the book until my knuckle were white & I lost feeling in them, and all the times I wanted to throw my book across the room. I will say, the book is an emotionally tumultuous & I recommend having something (preferably alive) you can snuggle with, & have a nice hot beverage next to you to ease the pain. Jay did an incredible job with the world building of this vampiric world that is both original & gives wonderful Medieval French/ Celtic/Gaelic vibes. I find the theology in the story incredibly fascinating & while this church (& it's most devout Silversaints) may be fictional, it clearly has so many parallels with a certain church in our world it was interesting to see how Jay moulded it into his own. You can't help but love Gabriel despite everything that happens, & there are others I thought l'd hate but ended up endearing themselves to me, & more that I liked to begin with (or was neutral about) & ended up wanting to throw them on the wheel to be flayed. Once again, my biggest advice with any Jay novel is to never get attached to anyone, Jay may be a brilliant author but he's a bastard to his characters lo!!
The action scenes are sit on the edge of your seat stressful, the adventure is wondrous, there are plenty of sweet moments, BUT be warned, this isn't a children's book & it is a Jay Kristoff novel so happy endings are as rare as hedgehogs in Australia. Bring on book 2!
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A dark epic fantasyFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff |
Fully illustratedFeaturing darkly beautiful illustrations by Bon Orthwick |
Featuring a silver vampire crestHidden beneath the dust jacket |
Including a mapTo guide you on your journey through Empire of the Vampire |
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