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Marquis de Sade #2
Quenched
An evil stalks the clubs and seedy hotels of San Francisco's shadowy underworld. It preys on the unfortunate, the outcasts, the misfits. It is an evil born of the eternal bloodlust of one of the undead, the infamous nobleman known to the ages as...the Marquis de Sade. He and his unholy offspring feed upon those who wont be missed, giving full vent to their dark desires and a thirst for blood that can never be sated. Yet while the Marquis amuses himself with the lives of his victims, with their pain and their torture, other vampires to their new lives of eternal night. And as the Marquis will soon learn, hatred and vengeance can be eternal as well undead can barely imagine.
363 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2000
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Mary Ann Mitchell
27 books51 followersAs a child, Mary Ann Mitchell wrote short stories, essays, and poetry. When she was twelve she sent her short stories to the night editor of The Journal American, who encouraged her to send more. Her mother intercepted the letters and forbade her from writing. Seems some of the family’s dark secrets were oozing onto Mary Ann’s written pages. Her writing became secret and sporadic. Once she completed graduate school, she became a civil servant. Years later her husband asked her what her dream career would be. She quickly answered that she always wanted to be a novelist.
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January 4, 2012
LOVED !!!! HARDCORE VAMPIRES. REAL VAMPIRES NO FEELY SHIT.
June 20, 2018
What if the Marquis de Sade became a vampire and lived in the modern world? Quenched is a sequel to Sips of Blood, where Sade's love has died. His latest enslaved creature is a beautiful vampire who is out to rebirth Sade's lost love, Liliana, in a dire hope to bring her back so Sade will release Cecilia from his grasp. To do so, Cecilia must be impregnated by a mortal.
Meanwhile, Wil and his father Keith are living in squalor, uneducated in the proper ways to take blood or lives and making a mess of things. Wil hates Sade, but Keith, who is wheelchair bound, has hopes that Sade can cure him so he can walk once more. Sade has little interest in them, but finds Keith to be an interesting amusement as he debates on whether to help the old man or not before Keith's killing spree brings too much attention from the law.
Sade enjoys hanging out at a particular hedonistic club, as does Keith and Cecilia. The club has special rooms in the back where sex, blood and S & M games rule. Sade sates his thirst and sexual desires on young blood.
The chapters are very short, making for a quick read. Mitchell does write fragments and quatrains of in French when Sade speaks, but most of it is easily comprehended. The book is definitely not for the squeamish and Mitchell has written the vampires existence and the rules in an interesting manner. Definitely a vampire book worth keeping on the book shelf for reading once more at a later date.
Meanwhile, Wil and his father Keith are living in squalor, uneducated in the proper ways to take blood or lives and making a mess of things. Wil hates Sade, but Keith, who is wheelchair bound, has hopes that Sade can cure him so he can walk once more. Sade has little interest in them, but finds Keith to be an interesting amusement as he debates on whether to help the old man or not before Keith's killing spree brings too much attention from the law.
Sade enjoys hanging out at a particular hedonistic club, as does Keith and Cecilia. The club has special rooms in the back where sex, blood and S & M games rule. Sade sates his thirst and sexual desires on young blood.
The chapters are very short, making for a quick read. Mitchell does write fragments and quatrains of in French when Sade speaks, but most of it is easily comprehended. The book is definitely not for the squeamish and Mitchell has written the vampires existence and the rules in an interesting manner. Definitely a vampire book worth keeping on the book shelf for reading once more at a later date.
September 13, 2020
I am not sure why they call this "Quenched", because no amount of liquor will make you forget this horrible book.
November 25, 2015
I chose this book for my A-Z challenge and discovered that it was a sequel to the first book of the Marquis de Sade series. I did not feel like it read like sequel and I will not be reading any of the other books in this series.
Synopsis
An evil stalks the clubs and seedy hotels of San Francisco's shadowy underworld. It preys on the unfortunate, the outcasts, the misfits. It is an evil born of the eternal bloodlust of one of the undead, the infamous nobleman known to the ages as...the Marquis de Sade. He and his unholy offspring feed upon those who wont be missed, giving full vent to their dark desires and a thirst for blood that can never be sated. Yet while the Marquis amuses himself with the lives of his victims, with their pain and their torture, other vampires to their new lives of eternal night. And as the Marquis will soon learn, hatred and vengeance can be eternal as well undead can barely imagine.
I had expected this book to be a horror of some form and I really did not find that at all with this story. I found it to have some dark humor with a pretty unrealistic plot line. I have to admit though, some parts did make m laugh. It did however take the glamour out of Vampire stories. I try to figure out though which is the lesser of the two evils, a poorly written vampire story or one that glamorizes vampires but had an actual plot. It definitely did not make me fear vampires in the least. I feel that it had a small feel of the Anita Blake series when it came to sexual escapades. Not enough to it to really make it exciting or enjoyable. I felt that it lacked depth and this story could have been so much more. Maybe had I read the first book it would have amounted to more for me. The ending of this book was not a cliffhanger at all it just left me feeling somewhat frustrated because the story just felt unfinished and incomplete. It was like the Author decided to just stop writing.
I did not like any of the characters in this story at all, and since this is a second book I feel like they should have been much better developed than they were. I really did not find any of them to be believable, leaving them feeling very unrealistic and unrelatable. There was a mix of immortals and mortals both and at times I found it hard to decipher which was which and it also felt like the author just randomly threw in new characters and that led to some confusion trying to keep everyone straight.
I honestly can't recommend this book to anyone. I really don't think anyone I know would enjoy it. I will not be reading any of the other books in this series.
Synopsis
An evil stalks the clubs and seedy hotels of San Francisco's shadowy underworld. It preys on the unfortunate, the outcasts, the misfits. It is an evil born of the eternal bloodlust of one of the undead, the infamous nobleman known to the ages as...the Marquis de Sade. He and his unholy offspring feed upon those who wont be missed, giving full vent to their dark desires and a thirst for blood that can never be sated. Yet while the Marquis amuses himself with the lives of his victims, with their pain and their torture, other vampires to their new lives of eternal night. And as the Marquis will soon learn, hatred and vengeance can be eternal as well undead can barely imagine.
I had expected this book to be a horror of some form and I really did not find that at all with this story. I found it to have some dark humor with a pretty unrealistic plot line. I have to admit though, some parts did make m laugh. It did however take the glamour out of Vampire stories. I try to figure out though which is the lesser of the two evils, a poorly written vampire story or one that glamorizes vampires but had an actual plot. It definitely did not make me fear vampires in the least. I feel that it had a small feel of the Anita Blake series when it came to sexual escapades. Not enough to it to really make it exciting or enjoyable. I felt that it lacked depth and this story could have been so much more. Maybe had I read the first book it would have amounted to more for me. The ending of this book was not a cliffhanger at all it just left me feeling somewhat frustrated because the story just felt unfinished and incomplete. It was like the Author decided to just stop writing.
I did not like any of the characters in this story at all, and since this is a second book I feel like they should have been much better developed than they were. I really did not find any of them to be believable, leaving them feeling very unrealistic and unrelatable. There was a mix of immortals and mortals both and at times I found it hard to decipher which was which and it also felt like the author just randomly threw in new characters and that led to some confusion trying to keep everyone straight.
I honestly can't recommend this book to anyone. I really don't think anyone I know would enjoy it. I will not be reading any of the other books in this series.
October 8, 2011
This book picked up rather abruptly, and although there is no evidence to state that it is part of a series, it feels like a mid-series story. In this, the main characters are vampires, with interaction with humans mainly as food banks. The Marquis de Sade was a background character - important mainly in what his existence causes others to do - he is a vampire and a sadist (after all his name and proclivities are the origin of the term.)
The story focuses mainly on vampires Wil (Wilbur?) and his wheelchair-bound father Keith, who are infants in the vampire life, with the lack of control of emotion and feeding that characterizes infants. The only character I really liked in the story was Edwina, an older 5-times widow whose appearances are way too brief. The rest are people I would steer clear of in reality.
I finished the story, feeling like it might have been rated horror but was closer to S&M. I will not be picking up any more stories by this author. There is nothing in the storyline that isn't cliched, and nothing that inclines me to need to know what happened next. A good put-me-to-sleep story.
The story focuses mainly on vampires Wil (Wilbur?) and his wheelchair-bound father Keith, who are infants in the vampire life, with the lack of control of emotion and feeding that characterizes infants. The only character I really liked in the story was Edwina, an older 5-times widow whose appearances are way too brief. The rest are people I would steer clear of in reality.
I finished the story, feeling like it might have been rated horror but was closer to S&M. I will not be picking up any more stories by this author. There is nothing in the storyline that isn't cliched, and nothing that inclines me to need to know what happened next. A good put-me-to-sleep story.
August 24, 2009
A mid-series story. The Marquis de Sade is a vampire and living in San Francisco. He's still a sadist and still enjoys torturing people both physically and mentally. This story focuses on Wil and his father Keith. Both are vampires but Keith is in a wheelchair and enjoys killing. Enough that he's starting to become a little obvious.
I didn't really like any of the characters and didn't really sympathise with any of them. I also had no inclination to read more by this author. The characters really had nothing that made me wonder what happened next. I didn't regret reading it but it really didn't attract me more.
I didn't really like any of the characters and didn't really sympathise with any of them. I also had no inclination to read more by this author. The characters really had nothing that made me wonder what happened next. I didn't regret reading it but it really didn't attract me more.
December 5, 2014
I think I made it to chapter 9-10 before throwing it away in disgust. Vampires are supposed to be broody and all powerful, not whiney, old, in some constant state of decay that they gripe about constantly and in some form of serious depressive disorder. If they were, no one would EVER read about them and they would just fade from memory. The smut in this one become overpoweringly weird and not even guilty pleasure weird, just boring. The book feels scripted, like it was based on the exact tone of the 1st one, which was barely worth reading. I'm done. They can have the Marquis...
March 13, 2008
A quick and easy one day read. I honestly didn't find it all that interesting, yet at the same time it wasn't awful. I've realized that I think vampire stories are lame and the ending of this book was so abrupt that I had to inspect the book to see if pages were missing! I didn't like that at all!
January 15, 2012
This book puts Twilight vampires in the light of the Muppets. The book is a What-if-the-Marquis-De-Sade-was-a-vampire type story. And if you know anything about the Marquis; it is that sick, twisted and sexual. Not typically my type of reading, but I was bored and it was free... so....yeah.
December 26, 2010
More horror than urban fantasy- lots of killing by vampires and the Marquis de Sade as vampire, a bit of S&M and sex. None of the characters are just black and white, or all good or all evil.
January 2, 2017
I remember reading this book years ago and loving it.
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January 31, 2011I just couldn't
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