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| Original Title: | Lord of the Dead |
| ISBN: | 0671024116 (ISBN13: 9780671024116) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Tom Holland
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.67 | 1484 Users | 137 Reviews
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Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst. Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive slave, whose pale, slim body arouses his lust. Utterly entranced, his fate is sealed. The supreme sensualist embarks on a life of adventure—that of the world's most formidable vampire. Chosen to enjoy powers beyond those any vampire has ever known, Byron enters a dark, intoxicating world of long-lost secrets, ancient arts, and scorching excesses of evil. He drinks deeply of terror and sex. But his diversions, delicious and cruel, are also his torment: an all-consuming thirst damning all those he loves...
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| Title | : | Lord of the Dead |
| Author | : | Tom Holland |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1998 by Gallery Books (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Paranormal. Vampires. Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Gothic |
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Ratings: 3.67 From 1484 Users | 137 ReviewsCrit Based On Books Lord of the Dead
Now this is how Vampire stories should be told!! Dark & gothic!! Truly one of my all time favorite vampire novels now! I really hope there are more books by this author because be is a master at horror writing! WOW!
Very mediocre, but kinda what I expected from a badly-rated vampire book. There was a lot about this that I didn't really like. The writing felt very much as if Tom Holland had a draft, and just published the draft instead of the actual edited version. If we talk about the character of Byron, his language is much too simple, he's a Romantic poet! I imagine he would talk in a bit more complicated way than the way he does when he tells his story to Rebecca. You can see that Tom Holland has drawn
It's a vampire book, but it was nice reading a vampire novel with the classical gothic vampire that is evil, sucks blood, kills humans and LIKES it. None of that urban fantasy crap where vampires are plain sexual beings that put a little adventure into having sex. No this is the classical gothic vampire story and I love this book. It starts off kind of slow and for a while there one thinks it will keep going the same road as Dracula, but it takes a turn - for the better - and turns the main
The figure of the brooding, Byronic hero and that of the vampire found their places in English literature at around the same time, both as part of the Romantic movement of the late 18th-early 19th centuries. One of the first vampire stories written in English was in fact composed by Dr. Polidori, the physician of Lord Byron himself. In this novel, the two figures are blended, as Lord Byron, poet, lover, scandal-driven exile and freedom fighter is further cursed with an immortality, stained with
This was not an easy book to get into. Wordy and very long winded for my liking. I felt the storyline got lost in the telling of the book and it was hard to know what the story was working to unfold. I read the first 100-150 pages, skipped to around 200-210 started reading and didn't miss ANYTHING that was happening, then skipped to near the ending and same thing. I am glad others liked it, just way too uninteresting for me. Seemed like just a vampire that liked to talk about himself.
A beautifully haunting experience. Dark and gothic romantic with an interesting plot and conclusive ending! The descriptions were perfect, the pace was in tune to that of the romantic genre, and the descriptions melted me. I understand it being likened to Interview with a Vampire given they are both basically just dialogue but I definitely felt a different energy radiate from this book. Strongly suggest if you enjoy lustful, gothic romance!
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