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Night Weaver
In the kingdom of night, Isabel rules. But there are hearts she cannot control. Her love affair with her courtly painter, Ankit, is legendary, as is her love of tapestries. Arrow’s talented hands have created a tapestry so beautiful that Isabel will destroy her entire world to possess it. And Ankit, who now makes her living as a tattoo artist in San Francisco, has left a tattoo on Arrow that has the power to undo them all – “For this night, and for our next. Los Angeles 12, 21, MMXII”. The next line, even thinner, “Franklin, Lief, Jameson’s Nail”. The third line, minuscule. “Marquise, Ruby”. The vicious corners of this vampire lesbian love triangle cut deep, as each struggles to fulfill her desires for eternal love, for revenge, and a for new beginning.
244 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 2012
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Madeleine Lycka
2 books3 followersMadeleine Lycka was born and raised in mid-Michigan. She has lived in and around San Francisco since the big quake of '89.
She graduated with honors from San Francisco State University.
"Night Weaver", a lesbian vampire novel set in San Francisco, is her first novel.
Her second novel, "Colossus of Arms", a sci-fi novel of exploration, lost love, and the true meaning of art, set on an exotic planet called Earth, will be available in the spring of 2015.
She graduated with honors from San Francisco State University.
"Night Weaver", a lesbian vampire novel set in San Francisco, is her first novel.
Her second novel, "Colossus of Arms", a sci-fi novel of exploration, lost love, and the true meaning of art, set on an exotic planet called Earth, will be available in the spring of 2015.
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February 28, 2015
This book is a interesting.
Ankrit is a vampire, and a painter. Isabel was her lover, but broke away to become Queen of the vampires. Every year at the masked ball, however, Isabel gets the chance to be with the one she never stopped obsessing over, and this year they've also gone out to hunt. Their target is Arrow - a talented tapestry artist with a masterwork hanging behind her bed - and in their lust and hunger the two vampires kill her and leave her body behind like trash. But Ankrit feels desire, and guilt, and a longing to be free of Isabel; she raises Arrow from the dead. The rest of the story deals with revenge as Isabel seeks to possess Ankrit, Ankrit lusts after Arrow, and Arrow desires revenge with all the hate possible in her newly dead heart.
It's difficult to fault this book's imagination; the court is lushly described, with a varied cast of characters. A particular strength was dialogue - you know when you read a conversation and you just think to yourself "what the heck?" That never really happens here, which is pretty impressive considering it's a novel about vampires. Individual motivations and talents are also pretty well developed in most of the characters - they're all good attempts at complexity and messy, which is absolutely commendable. Alas, certain of these attempts fall a little flat - double alas, some of these were quite important to the books' plot - but good on the author for at least trying to make it nuanced. It is certainly possible to see why the project was greenlit for publication; it blends a darker love-triangle type romance with paranormal fiction, and does a decent political drama to boot.
Alas, however, the book was a difficult read. Certain sections did not make much sense. Drama was shoe-horned in awkwardly at times. The writing alternated between smoothly flowing and abrupt. An example from early in the book; Arrow turns her newly risen gaze on her loom - her work commences and it is addressed in detail... before the description was abruptly halted for her to run out the door and literally murder some random man. Totally random; it only takes a paragraph or two for her to find him alone, drain him dry, stuff his body up a tree, and then go back home. After some token concern she might have gotten blood on her face, she goes back to working on the loom and this is never mentioned again. It could hardly be considered a spoiler. I struggled with the implications of this scene, clashing as it did with much of the other characterisation the author was building. Sadly, this kind of schizophrenia was fairly common throughout the novel, and I quickly grew irritated whenever the mood saw fit to wildly swing. It was just difficult.
Everything took itself a fraction too seriously as well. I understand that this is supposed to be a dark, politically driven work; it even almost comes off as such. But the novel was inherently stupid and never quite worked that out. Perhaps that didn't help the book, giving it some lightness to overcome its moody nature.
Whatever the case, it gets three stars. I actually think a goodly amount of people would very much like this novel if they read it; it just wasn't for me.
Ankrit is a vampire, and a painter. Isabel was her lover, but broke away to become Queen of the vampires. Every year at the masked ball, however, Isabel gets the chance to be with the one she never stopped obsessing over, and this year they've also gone out to hunt. Their target is Arrow - a talented tapestry artist with a masterwork hanging behind her bed - and in their lust and hunger the two vampires kill her and leave her body behind like trash. But Ankrit feels desire, and guilt, and a longing to be free of Isabel; she raises Arrow from the dead. The rest of the story deals with revenge as Isabel seeks to possess Ankrit, Ankrit lusts after Arrow, and Arrow desires revenge with all the hate possible in her newly dead heart.
It's difficult to fault this book's imagination; the court is lushly described, with a varied cast of characters. A particular strength was dialogue - you know when you read a conversation and you just think to yourself "what the heck?" That never really happens here, which is pretty impressive considering it's a novel about vampires. Individual motivations and talents are also pretty well developed in most of the characters - they're all good attempts at complexity and messy, which is absolutely commendable. Alas, certain of these attempts fall a little flat - double alas, some of these were quite important to the books' plot - but good on the author for at least trying to make it nuanced. It is certainly possible to see why the project was greenlit for publication; it blends a darker love-triangle type romance with paranormal fiction, and does a decent political drama to boot.
Alas, however, the book was a difficult read. Certain sections did not make much sense. Drama was shoe-horned in awkwardly at times. The writing alternated between smoothly flowing and abrupt. An example from early in the book; Arrow turns her newly risen gaze on her loom - her work commences and it is addressed in detail... before the description was abruptly halted for her to run out the door and literally murder some random man. Totally random; it only takes a paragraph or two for her to find him alone, drain him dry, stuff his body up a tree, and then go back home. After some token concern she might have gotten blood on her face, she goes back to working on the loom and this is never mentioned again. It could hardly be considered a spoiler. I struggled with the implications of this scene, clashing as it did with much of the other characterisation the author was building. Sadly, this kind of schizophrenia was fairly common throughout the novel, and I quickly grew irritated whenever the mood saw fit to wildly swing. It was just difficult.
Everything took itself a fraction too seriously as well. I understand that this is supposed to be a dark, politically driven work; it even almost comes off as such. But the novel was inherently stupid and never quite worked that out. Perhaps that didn't help the book, giving it some lightness to overcome its moody nature.
Whatever the case, it gets three stars. I actually think a goodly amount of people would very much like this novel if they read it; it just wasn't for me.
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