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Count Manfred
HEROINE IN HELL
Lucy Emerton, Ravishing in her beauty, vulnerable in her need. In love with the most handsome, and brilliant man in Regency England, the legendary Lord Byron. Trapped into marriage to the notoriously corrupt, perversely attractive Lord Ruthven, who lusted for her body and for Byron’s soul. And playing a desperate game to save herself and her lover from this mysterious master of demonic powers that ripped through her defenses with fanglike fury and licked at her flesh like the flames of hell…
Lucy Emerton, Ravishing in her beauty, vulnerable in her need. In love with the most handsome, and brilliant man in Regency England, the legendary Lord Byron. Trapped into marriage to the notoriously corrupt, perversely attractive Lord Ruthven, who lusted for her body and for Byron’s soul. And playing a desperate game to save herself and her lover from this mysterious master of demonic powers that ripped through her defenses with fanglike fury and licked at her flesh like the flames of hell…
- GenresHorror
283 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1977
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May 30, 2018
Boring, boring, BORING. D: What a letdown from that awesome cover.
Neither gripping, nor suspenseful, nor erotic -- instead it was a bunch of talking heads with a choppy, confusing storyline that jumped around with badly managed scene shifts, poor characterization, & zero tension. The heroine was a twatwaffle (terminally selfish, inconsistent, & clueless) while Byron was a drippy non-entity without any presence whatsoever -- how this soppy, spineless idiot managed to inspire such lustful devotion in 3 different characters is beyond me.
As for the inclusion of Shelley, Mary, Claire, & Hogg...*facepalm* I couldn't decide if the author wanted to write an EATERS OF THE DEAD homage to Byron's poem or Totes Srs Historical Fiction. Turns out, neither angle worked. It was just plain dull. Read the real Byron's 'Manfred' instead; it's infinitely better than this jumbled, flatline mess.
1.5 stars, rounded up only for the cover & those opening paragraphs about gothic fiction. I've kept this unread for many years, taking the awesome quotient on faith. But alas... ;____;
Neither gripping, nor suspenseful, nor erotic -- instead it was a bunch of talking heads with a choppy, confusing storyline that jumped around with badly managed scene shifts, poor characterization, & zero tension. The heroine was a twatwaffle (terminally selfish, inconsistent, & clueless) while Byron was a drippy non-entity without any presence whatsoever -- how this soppy, spineless idiot managed to inspire such lustful devotion in 3 different characters is beyond me.
As for the inclusion of Shelley, Mary, Claire, & Hogg...*facepalm* I couldn't decide if the author wanted to write an EATERS OF THE DEAD homage to Byron's poem or Totes Srs Historical Fiction. Turns out, neither angle worked. It was just plain dull. Read the real Byron's 'Manfred' instead; it's infinitely better than this jumbled, flatline mess.
1.5 stars, rounded up only for the cover & those opening paragraphs about gothic fiction. I've kept this unread for many years, taking the awesome quotient on faith. But alas... ;____;
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