![]() This keeps the pages turning - leisurely, but gripping storytelling.īoth women are now immortal in Hollywood, living together, yet fighting off the darkest impulses that made them immune to human frailty. Kiste remains, as is her style, firmly devoted to the characters in how they behave in the plot. Lucy Westenra, a victim of the famous Dracula, and Bertha Mason, the first wife of Edward Rochester, a more human monster from Jane Eyre, are center stage in this gothic horror offering that never gets bogged down in the details. Gwendolyn Kiste inserts characters from a pair of classic novels and transports them to the modern era…well, 1967 is close enough and perfect time for the exquisite tale. Instead, the author writes the story into a realm that is wholly enjoyable while, at times, the reader may just sit back and marvel at a particular exchange or moment between the odd mixture of characters - and odd they are. ![]() This novel takes an idea that could fall apart in lesser hands. ![]() Gorgeous prose wrapped around the darkest reaches of the human condition in plots that are anything but overdone. Then again, for those who have ever been treated to one of Kiste’s works, the unexpected is part of the gift she gives to her readers. ![]()
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