Description (Goodreads):- Have you ever had the feeling that you’ve lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you’ve never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens.
In 2073 on the remote and secretive island of Blessed, where rumour has it that no one ages and no children are born, a visiting journalist, Eric Seven, and a young local woman known as Merle are ritually slain. Their deaths echo a moment ten centuries before, when, in the dark of the moon, a king was slain, tragically torn from his queen. Their souls search to be reunited, and as mother and son, artist and child, forbidden lovers, victims of a vampire they come close to finding what they’ve lost.
In a novel comprising seven parts, each influenced by a moon – the flower moon, the harvest moon, the hunter’s moon, the blood moon – this is the story of Eric and Merle whose souls have been searching for each other since their untimely parting. Beautifully imagined, intricately and cleverly structured, this is a heart-wrenching and breathtaking love story with the hallmark Sedgwick gothic touches of atmosphere, blood-spilling and sacrifice.
Review:- I have to admit this is my first Marcus Sedgewick book I have read. All I can say is, WHY, why is this me just getting around to reading his books? I can assure you it won’t be my last, I am fast gathering his back catalogue and I recommend you do so now.
Midwinterblood is a fantastic book, it kept me turning the page and staying up late, way into the wee hours, I just could not put it down. Marcus Sedgewick is right up there with the great story tellers, his writing flows along and has you mesmerised.
The book is about two characters Eric and Merle in various sections within seven different stories, each intertwines with their different types of relationships from mother and son, to lovers, brother and sister, etc. Starting in the future and working it’s way back to the 10th century. The layers created throughout the story is so well done, it’s incredible. The backdrop of the different time frames give depth to the stories, all of which could be told separates but which intertwine perfectly.
Take my advice and read this book, you will love it, I can guarantee. It’s something a little different, but an easy read. You will laugh and cry and want to read every one of his books.
Disclaimer:- I was sent this book from the publishers in exchange for an honest review.
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