Agyar
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Ex-Library book from the Chicago Public Library
Description:
What if you could live for centuries, and the only price was your soul…?
Agyar is a man who has paid this price. Born over a century ago, and once a frivolous young man in search of pleasure, he found instead immortality in a woman’s blood-red lips.
Now he roams from woman to woman, from decade to decade, and from land to land. Death does not bind him. Only one thing does—and that is a bind he has vowed to break. It has brought him to modern day Ohio and an abandoned house in a quiet college town. Here he plays his familiar role: the handsome drifter, the mysterious stranger, the sharp-tongued and heartless Lothario. But in this town are two women, one young and one as ageless as he. And one of these two women will cost him much more than his blackened soul.
Ex-Library book from the Chicago Public Library
Description:
What if you could live for centuries, and the only price was your soul…?
Agyar is a man who has paid this price. Born over a century ago, and once a frivolous young man in search of pleasure, he found instead immortality in a woman’s blood-red lips.
Now he roams from woman to woman, from decade to decade, and from land to land. Death does not bind him. Only one thing does—and that is a bind he has vowed to break. It has brought him to modern day Ohio and an abandoned house in a quiet college town. Here he plays his familiar role: the handsome drifter, the mysterious stranger, the sharp-tongued and heartless Lothario. But in this town are two women, one young and one as ageless as he. And one of these two women will cost him much more than his blackened soul.
This is a vampire story that never utters the word 'vampire'. Agyar has been around for over a century aimlessly moving from city to city living a vague kind of un-life. Recently, he's been drawn to a small Ohio city where all of that is going to change. He will feel emotions long thought dead. You want to root for Agyar but he's also a very unlikeable character. Quite a feat to write such a character!
It's hard to say anything about this book because it is best experienced knowing as little as possible about it and it would be too easy to spoil it.
The book moves a bit slow at first and you won't be sure if it's going to be any good. But I'm glad I stuck around because all of a sudden I was engrossed in the tale!
I've been a fan of Brust's Taltos books since Jr./Middle school. I don't know how the books would hold up now, but I've the feeling they would do well. While looking for some vampire books for the vamp box, I was quite surprised to find out that Brust wrote a vampire novel and I immediately added it to my cart! Glad I found it! Agyar is no Taltos but he's still pretty interesting.
This is not a story for everyone and I can see that many will not like it. But I enjoyed it.
It's hard to say anything about this book because it is best experienced knowing as little as possible about it and it would be too easy to spoil it.
The book moves a bit slow at first and you won't be sure if it's going to be any good. But I'm glad I stuck around because all of a sudden I was engrossed in the tale!
I've been a fan of Brust's Taltos books since Jr./Middle school. I don't know how the books would hold up now, but I've the feeling they would do well. While looking for some vampire books for the vamp box, I was quite surprised to find out that Brust wrote a vampire novel and I immediately added it to my cart! Glad I found it! Agyar is no Taltos but he's still pretty interesting.
This is not a story for everyone and I can see that many will not like it. But I enjoyed it.
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at Vampire Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 10, 2020
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