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A Long Time Dead
Samara Breger
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 10 BEST ROMANCES OF 2023.
Somewhere foggy, 1837 . . .
Poppy had always loved the night, so it wasn’t too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London, weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood, to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages, it more than made up for those in its benefits: immortality, a body that could run at speed for hours without tiring, the thrill of becoming a predator, the thing that pulls rabbits from bushes and tears through their fur and flesh with the sharp point of a white fang.
And, of course, Roisin. The mysterious woman who has lived for centuries, who held Poppy through her painful transformation, and who, for some reason, is now teaching her how to adjust to her new, endless life. A tight, lonely, buttoned-up woman, with kindness and care pressed up behind her teeth. The time they spend together is as transformative to Poppy as the changes in her body, and soon, she finds herself hopelessly, overwhelmingly attached. But Roisin has secrets of her own, and can’t make any promises; not when vengeance must be served.
Soon, their little world explodes. Together and apart, they encounter scores of vampires, shifty pirates, conniving opera singers, ancient nobles, glamorous French women, and a found family that throws a very particular sort of party. But overhead, threat looms—one woman who is capable of destroying everything Poppy and Roisin hold dear.
Samara Breger's A Long Time Dead is a lush, Victorian romance, drenched in blood and drama, about the lengths two women will go to secure a love that cannot die.
Rezensionen
“In the best Sapphic vampire romance novel since Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 classic, Carmilla, a Victorian sex worker wakes in a cobwebbed manor to find herself a creature out of a nightmare. I had to keep putting down A Long Time Dead to yell about how sublime and funny it was, to dwell on the way the sleekly poetic style melted down into brutal abstraction.” —Olivia Waite, The New York Times
Kundenbewertungen
dark, vampire, w/w, spec fiction, victorian, horror, romance, lesbian, f/f, trans, sapphic, transwoman