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Divinity
by
Bryl R. Tyne (Goodreads Author)
Martin Hayes has found the perfect job for a 200-year-old vampire. As the late-shift security guard for Spire Industries, he works and hunts by night and sleeps by day, hidden away in the unused cellar. Life is all so easy—nights bleeding away, weeks and months passing . . . until a new janitor disturbs the peace. Martin finds himself consumed by memories (or are they?) of...more
ebook, 40 pages
Published
November 14th 2011
by Riptide Publishing
(first published November 12th 2011)
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Rating: B-
Originally reviewed at Brief Encounters Reviews
Warning: this story contains one rape scene (non-graphic) and instances of dubious consent.
This is an angsty and unusual tale which didn’t quite deliver what I was expecting, but that kept me reading. The blurb’s mention of a security guard vampire being fed orange lollipops by a janitor had me intrigued from the start, and that motif was one of the most interesting things about the story. Why did Mesmer keep offering them to Martin, and w...more
Originally reviewed at Brief Encounters Reviews
Warning: this story contains one rape scene (non-graphic) and instances of dubious consent.
This is an angsty and unusual tale which didn’t quite deliver what I was expecting, but that kept me reading. The blurb’s mention of a security guard vampire being fed orange lollipops by a janitor had me intrigued from the start, and that motif was one of the most interesting things about the story. Why did Mesmer keep offering them to Martin, and w...more
Do weird vampires dream of orange candy?
I don't read vampire stories, so I have no reference what they usually are, but this one was weird, but also funny.
Divinity is well written (and I learned at least five new English words) and the characters are interesting, but somehow the whole was just too weird for me. I cannot really place my finger on the weirdness, but if you are familiar with Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? then you have some kind of clue to what kind of weirdn...more
I don't read vampire stories, so I have no reference what they usually are, but this one was weird, but also funny.
Divinity is well written (and I learned at least five new English words) and the characters are interesting, but somehow the whole was just too weird for me. I cannot really place my finger on the weirdness, but if you are familiar with Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? then you have some kind of clue to what kind of weirdn...more
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This was a snippet of a story...a glimpse of a tale that left me wanting more...more story...more back story...more, more, more. The story, Divinity, swirls around the spotty memory of a centuries old vampire, Martin, who has found the perfect job working as a nighttime security guard for an office building. His world is remarkably predictable and dull until a new janitor, Dylan, comes on the scene. Dylan, however, is more than meets the eye and Martin begins dreaming in a series of flashbacks t...more
This review was originally posted on my blog Joyfully Jay.
Martin Hayes has the perfect job for a vampire. He is a night security guard, leaving him time to hunt and work at night and sleep during the day. But for the last month he has been plagued by the new night janitor Dylan Mesmer. Something about Dylan just makes him crazy and he finds himself inexplicably drawn to the man and his ever present orange tootsie pops. Not to mention his bright orange hair and all over freckles.
Martin knows som...more
Martin Hayes has the perfect job for a vampire. He is a night security guard, leaving him time to hunt and work at night and sleep during the day. But for the last month he has been plagued by the new night janitor Dylan Mesmer. Something about Dylan just makes him crazy and he finds himself inexplicably drawn to the man and his ever present orange tootsie pops. Not to mention his bright orange hair and all over freckles.
Martin knows som...more
3.5 stars rounded up to 4.
Very well written short story (it didn't feel short while reading it) about a commitment shy vampire and his current co-worker who seems to be weaving some sort of spell on him (with lollipops!).
Not sure if these are considered spoilers, but just in case;
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Very well written short story (it didn't feel short while reading it) about a commitment shy vampire and his current co-worker who seems to be weaving some sort of spell on him (with lollipops!).
Not sure if these are considered spoilers, but just in case;
(view spoiler)...more
3.5 stars on this first read. I feel I have to re-read it.
This is an interesting, but also complicated story. The story begins in the past and shows Martin being turned into a vampire on his way to meet his lover, who mesmerizes him with his red hair and freckles. The turning makes Martin lose his memories, but it doesn't delete them completely. Flash-forward 200 years. Martin, now a night security guard, meets the janitor Dylan Mesmer and is enthralled by his red hair and freckles. The meeting...more
This is an interesting, but also complicated story. The story begins in the past and shows Martin being turned into a vampire on his way to meet his lover, who mesmerizes him with his red hair and freckles. The turning makes Martin lose his memories, but it doesn't delete them completely. Flash-forward 200 years. Martin, now a night security guard, meets the janitor Dylan Mesmer and is enthralled by his red hair and freckles. The meeting...more
I'm not quite sure how to rate this. I ended this book thinking what the hell is going on??!! I was so confused. Even re-reading it, I was still confused. I felt like the ending got cut off, incomplete. I had to re-read this book several times to understand parts of it. And there are still parts I'm iffy on. Things needed to be better explained. I understand the style of writing the author was aiming for but it didn't work out. It was okay, but not something I will keep.
2.5 stars
2.5 stars
I'm not going to rate this short because I found myself skimming over most of it. I just couldn't get my mind engaged in the story. Maybe I will try it again sometime.
This one actually gets 3.5 stars from me. It was shorter than I wanted it to be and felt more HFN than HEA, but only just barely HFN. It seems like Martin is still fighting against their attraction at the end, even though he gave in to what Dylan wanted. I don't know... I just felt still unsettled at the end. I liked the story though. Dylan was fun to watch, freckles and all. Mischievous imp is a good description for him. =)
I had to read this book twice as I didn't completely understand it the first time but I think that probably had as much to do with my tired, end-of-the-week brain as it did with the story!
Odd and confused storyline.
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BRYL R. TYNE is a wrangler by nature and a writer by choice. Balancing as many pronouns as hats, somewhere between the evil day job, editing, and helping a benevolent Sugar Daddy raise the last of seven kids, Bryl writes. Homoerotic romance is a favorite, but many of Bryl’s stories cross genres. Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, even Westerns, Bryl writes them all.
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Nov 26, 2011 11:29pm