By Blood We Live Author: Glen Duncan | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EGMQIFY | Format: PDF
By Blood We Live Description
First Glen Duncan gave us his monstrously thrilling, genre-reinventing
The Last Werewolf: the tale of Jake, a werewolf with a profoundly human heart, considering bringing to an end the timeless legend of his kind . . . Then
Talulla Rising: Jake’s werewolf lover, mother to newborn twins, on the run from those who want her destroyed . . . And now
By Blood We Live: a stunningly erotic love story that gives us the final battle for survival between werewolves and vampires, and one last searing—and brilliantly ironic—look at what it means to be, or not to be, human.
The story opens: Talulla has settled into an uneasy equilibrium. With her twins safely at her side, and the devotion of her lover, Walker, she has what appears to be a normal family life—except for their monthly transformation into werewolves hungry for human flesh. But even this hard-won, tenuous peace is undermined for Talulla by nagging thoughts of Remshi, the twenty-thousand-year-old vampire who haunts her dreams. For his part, Remshi can’t escape the feeling that he knows Talulla from many (many, many) years before. Still, they have their distractions: Talulla is being pursued by a fanatical, Vatican-based Christian cult, and Remshi is following a trail of reckless feedings by a newly turned vampire bent on revenge. But, as the novel unfolds, Talulla and Remshi are inexorably drawn to each other—and toward the moment when an ancient prophecy may finally come to pass.
From the Hardcover edition.- File Size: 1109 KB
- Print Length: 369 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0307595102
- Publisher: Knopf (February 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EGMQIFY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,915 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Glen Duncan has am infernal ability to grab you by the figurative genitals and not let go until bits of you are strewn throughout his novels; your heart, your throat, your entrails, and the sceptre of your passion in this instance (with apologies to Nabokov). With every one of his books, I get more and more fretful as the pages dwindle (I still read real books) because I want them to go on forever and I always despair that the endings will be somehow unsatisfactory. But I should know better, because they never are. If I had my way, and Duncan had 20,000 years, I'd be happy if this turned from trilogy to a tricentilogy or some other ridiculous neologism for a trilogy of more than three parts.
Some books take aeons to read because we like to dwell on every delicious phrase and soak up the beauty of the writing. Other books drive us at 100 pages an hour through rollicking story and excitement. (Other stuff should just be set ablaze because it has neither of those things - Twilight and other twaddle, for instance). Duncan, however, combines eye-wateringly beautiful prose with a raging excitement and, somehow, all the beauty languidly seeps into your heart, while the story powers you forwards like a silver bullet from an AK-47. I use index cards as bookmarks and scribble asterisks in margins where pieces of prose make me gasp, noting the page number and gist on the index card; I filled both sides with this novel.
Duncan is honest, startling, and brutal (sometimes), but tempered with love, compassion, and tenderness (always). His sheer bravery never fails to amaze me. He has a rare gift of clarity in his writing and observations, making you aware of things about yourself that you'd forgotten or didn't know in the first place.
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