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Lädt ... Unstillbares Verlangen (1992)von Tanith Lee
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |   It will not appeal to everyone what with the incest and innuendos of vampirism. I just enjoyed the prose and use of colours to describe everything. The House was intriguing. The family reminded me of my grandparents. Maybe that was the appeal for me, a life that I found I would have wanted. Would it have been so bad to laze away the days in an old home by the sea? To read my books and be dotted on as I replenished the family line? Hmmm, maybe not so much! (  ) Chanicole | Jul 6, 2023 | Rachaela Day is a friendless and isolated woman living a dull life as a bookstore employee when she receives an invitation from unknown relatives to join them at their rich estate. When she finally takes them up on the offer, she finds herself thrown into a dark and mysterious world of the Scarabae clan, a family she herself is descended from... Sounds like the premise of any typical vampire novel, but it was like nothing I expected. The story itself is slow; we follow Rachaela as she spends her days at the Scarabae house, meandering its various rooms, trying to unravel the mysterious of this ancient and eccentric family. There is very little real action overall, but Tanith Lee writes it in such a compelling way that it never feels dull. Her richly descriptive and unique prose just draws you in, and then she surprises you with story developments which most would consider unusual and even unpalatable choices, but somehow it just worked for me. I totally ate up this book. The strange secluded lives of the Scarabae elderly, the beautifully seductive Adamus, and even the house itself, dark and gothic with its mirrors painted over and corrupted Bible stories depicted on stained glass windows.. all of it fascinated me and kept me completely rapt. ( ) serru | Oct 6, 2022 |  ) vdb | Sep 24, 2010 | )5  Ganeshaka | Mar 25, 2008 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Rachaela has never known her father - he was a taboo subject as far as her mother was concerned. All Rachaela's mother had ever said was 'Keep away from the Scarabae', her father's tribe. Were they bad people, or simply disapproving of the woman who'd born his child?After her mother's death, Rachaela realises she is being stalked by agents of the mysterious Scarabae family. They want to meet her. Despite her instincts to keep away from the Scarabae, she ultimately relents and is taken to the rambling, isolated house near the sea, where the Scarabae live in baroque seclusion. The inhabitants of the house are very old, and most are extremely eccentric, if not demented. And how many of them are there, exactly? The fading splendour of the house closes around Rachaela like a stifling womb, and she's given no explanation for this m nage of bizarre oldsters, who are like creatures from an earlier age, and certainly not normal. Is there something supernatural to the Scarabae, or are they merely lost in delusion?When Rachaela finally meets Adamus, a beautiful and apparently young man who claims to be her father, events take a darker turn. The Scarabae have a purpose for Rachaela - but this is nothing like she'd imagined. The family has been hounded across centuries and continents, until finally, the last of them, mostly weak and old, have ended up in this hidden corner of England, with only a reluctant, fearful ally to aid them. Rachaela must decide what to do - comply, or run while she still can. Her greatest fear is that she does not have a choice.First published in 1992, and long out of print, Immanion Press is proud to release this new edition, which includes seven illustrations and an introductory essay by Storm Constantine. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I don't think I'd really be spoiling it for anyone if I said it was a cross between the Adams Family and Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. There was a good idea there; could have really explored the family ramifications of someone being abandoned by her father, brought up by a resentful mother and then being recalled years later by her lost family - but of course they only want her for breeding purposes which is where it falls down. Without the supernatural trappings and