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Lily (The Quest for Reason #1)
by
L.M. DeWalt (Goodreads Author)
Lily is a tragic and lonely vampire, unwittingly brought into her existence by Ian, a selfish but beautiful maker who has captured her heart for decades, even though he left her with no compass on how to navigate her strange new world. When she meets a coven of vampires that takes her in and treats her like family, all she thought she knew is brought into question. Things...more
Paperback, 2, 302 pages
Published
February 1st 2012
by Central Avenue Publishing
(first published August 31st 2010)
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Lily is nineteen going on ninety. At the human age of nineteen her fiancé makes her into a vampire - and she didn't even know about his passion for drinking human blood.
Sixty years later Lily is lonely and bored and begins to travel. Luck is on her side as she finds a vampire family who want her to join them. Their warmth and caring envelop her giving her the love she didn't even know she lacked. Lily decides to take an archaeology co...more
Lily is nineteen going on ninety. At the human age of nineteen her fiancé makes her into a vampire - and she didn't even know about his passion for drinking human blood.
Sixty years later Lily is lonely and bored and begins to travel. Luck is on her side as she finds a vampire family who want her to join them. Their warmth and caring envelop her giving her the love she didn't even know she lacked. Lily decides to take an archaeology co...more
From the very beginning of the story, the title character intrigued me. Lily is a vampire. I don't like vampire stories; I think they are either silly or overblown. But this vampire is different; she's lonely and disenchanted with the undead life. No, not in any comedic sense, as is all too often the case. No, she is really unhappy, works hard at keeping herself isolated, but has a deep seated but suppressed yearning for warmth and family and relationship.
Abandoned by Ian, the powerful, manipul...more
Abandoned by Ian, the powerful, manipul...more
You love a good vampire story, right? Well, this one will certainly capture your attention! Lily has been alone for a long time. She is always on the move to keep attention away from her. Her maker, Ian, left her as a newborn and she was completely lost. She lost her first love, and was left to figure out how to survive as a vampire.
She has lived in her apartment for two years, the longest she has ever stayed in one place. She was forced to leave during the night, when a neighbor asks her out o...more
Me tomo mucho tiempo terminar de leer esta novela, algunos dos meses ya que no me terminaba de envolver. Aunque me pareció muy buena, en principio estaba confundida y creo entender por que ahora que la termine. Mi primer idioma es el español y algunas palabras mas bien parecían traducidas, del ingle(mi segundo idioma, el que usualmente leo)Notando esto perdía yo el tiempo y el hilo de la historia por momentos. Mi segundo error fue no informarme y comprar el libro sin saber que es el primero de u...more
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LM DeWalt's Lily is about a relatively young vampire, Lily, as she finally seems to find a place where she belongs and then has the whole thing thrown into upheaval.
There was something about the story that constantly had me reading, but I'm still not quite sure what it was that made me stay with the story. The writing wasn't particularly good -- the dialogue was sometimes jarring and sometimes quite corny, and sometimes I found myself having to reread a...more
LM DeWalt's Lily is about a relatively young vampire, Lily, as she finally seems to find a place where she belongs and then has the whole thing thrown into upheaval.
There was something about the story that constantly had me reading, but I'm still not quite sure what it was that made me stay with the story. The writing wasn't particularly good -- the dialogue was sometimes jarring and sometimes quite corny, and sometimes I found myself having to reread a...more
Feb 15, 2012
Black Queen
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I've read the review and love it...at that moment I wanted to start reading this book! And then I heard about this giveaway and said to myself this the chance to win a copy...So I hurry up and enter this wonderful giveaway..:D I hope I win...One awesome book review.
Finished my first Spanish novel. This was a good one to start with. Not sure how (or why) I did this but it was pretty interesting. I do like Spanish prose, the feel of it.
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I decided to download a Book in Spanish. Not sure if I will make it through, but I'm on chapter two and its going a little faster. I figured this book would be a fun page turner considering the whole not-knowing-the-language thing would cause me problems. Vampiros muy peligrosos!!!
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Estoy aprendiendo muchas palabras y...more
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I decided to download a Book in Spanish. Not sure if I will make it through, but I'm on chapter two and its going a little faster. I figured this book would be a fun page turner considering the whole not-knowing-the-language thing would cause me problems. Vampiros muy peligrosos!!!
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Estoy aprendiendo muchas palabras y...more
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Great Halloween season reading--can't go wrong with vampires. L.M. DeWalt creates a somehow more "realistic" feel for a vampire lifestyle than the ones you might have read before. The everyday difficulties of life for Lily, a vampire trying to pass as human, come through in a haunting and lonely tone. She's like a less-dramatic female Louis (from Interview with the Vampire), and now that I think of it, her nasty maker Ian does have some very Lestat-like moments. :)
A potentially sad ending does c...more
A potentially sad ending does c...more
Finished purely out of stubbornness. The prose is passable but uninteresting. Would have benefited from an editor's hand to cut repetition and boring passages. The characters were occasionally interesting, but mostly pedestrian. Lily was a Mary Sue.
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LM DeWalt is a Peruvian American who has been living in the US for 30 years. She works as a teacher of ESL, Spanish, French, and accent reduction and is also an interpreter and translator and runs creative writing groups. She is currently attending teacher's college. She has written for several Spanish language newspapers but her dream was always to write novels. Her love of vampires started when...more
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