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Melmoth
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A brooding atmosphere shrouded in mystery, enfolded with dark lore and stitched together with secrets. Melmoth speaks to our most shameful transgressions and the longing for redemption; it whispers and taunts and beckons with a crooked finger, drawing its audience on puppet strings to the final page where a haunting conclusion awaits.
Look! A jackdaw - blue-eyed and black-winged - sits at the window, peck-peck-pecking at the glass . . .
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*Note: Quote taken from an Advanced Reader Edition.
A brooding atmosphere shrouded in mystery, enfolded with dark lore and stitched together with secrets. Melmoth speaks to our most shameful transgressions and the longing for redemption; it whispers and taunts and beckons with a crooked finger, drawing its audience on puppet strings to the final page where a haunting conclusion awaits.
Look! A jackdaw - blue-eyed and black-winged - sits at the window, peck-peck-pecking at the glass . . .
She came near and I smelt her then - sweet as lilies in summer, rotten as spoiled meat. [. . .] She came slowly to me and said nothing and then she fell to her knees at my feet. Her eyes hung in the bones of her face like spheres of smoky glass and they contained every wickedness imagined or acted on.*
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*Note: Quote taken from an Advanced Reader Edition.
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Reading Progress
May 29, 2018
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Started Reading
May 30, 2018
– Shelved
May 30, 2018
– Shelved as:
gothic
May 30, 2018
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12.45%
""[Melmoth] comes to those at the lowest ebb of life, and those she chooses feel her eyes on them. Then they look up [. . .] and she holds out her arms and says: Take my hand! I've been so lonely!"
I shivered then, and asked what became of those who take her hand."
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I shivered then, and asked what became of those who take her hand."
May 30, 2018
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45.79%
"Shadows shifted across her face and her eyes were wide and they were fixed on me. Her feet were bare and bleeding and the Prague streets were marked with footprints in blood."
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125
May 30, 2018
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Finished Reading
December 31, 2020
– Shelved as:
adult
December 31, 2020
– Shelved as:
fiction
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May 30, 2018 09:03PM
Jealous! I want to read this one!
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Nice review, Hannah! That passage is breathtakingly haunting and lyrical.
You had me at "...it whispers and taunts and beckons with a crooked finger...". :-)
No idea about this book, but the second I started reading the review I knew I had to read it. Nice one
@Melissa Crytzer Fry: Thank you!
@Susie and @Craig: My work here is done. :D
Such a beautiful review Hannah, you made me even more curious about this book!
@Dani: My work here is done! :)
Hey Hannah. Do I need to read the Essex Serpent to read Melmoth? Are they connected, sequel etc?
@Nageen: The books are completely unrelated (other than having been penned by the same author). Skip Essex Serpent and dive right into Melmoth. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! :D
Yes, waiting to get my hands on it. Love your videos by the way!! Keep rocking just the way you do!
