Book description
'This book is bloody brilliant'
V.E. Schwab
'A ripping read'
Joe Abercrombie
The SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestseller from the award-winning author of the Nevernight Chronicle
It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise.
Ever since, vampires have waged war against humanity building their eternal empire…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Empire of the Vampire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book tore me out of a reading slump and reminded me what good writing looks and viscerally feels like in my body.
It is dark, dangerous, gory, and completely bingeable. I loved the depiction of religion and faith – and the way it was used as both a weapon, shield, and prison by different characters. The romance was spicy and devastating. The stakes, impossibly high. The characters…utterly unforgettable.
One of the few books I will make time to re-read over and over, both to study to improve my own writing, and simply to just ruin myself in – over…
From E.C.'s list on fantasy books with torment, heresy, and forbidden romance.
Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire is a Gothic feast that absolutely drips with bloody, spooky atmospherics: crumbling castles, sadistic vampire aristocrats, and battles over gore-soaked snow.
It could be said that this book itself is vampiric, for it consumes aspects of many of my favorite stories and blends them all into its own cursed bloodstream: the frame narrative of The Name of the Wind or Interview With The Vampire, the epic action of the Castlevania anime, characters reminiscent of The Witcher, Vampire: The Masquerade’s concept of different vampire bloodlines having different powers, and moments that bring…
From Jonathan's list on epic Gothic adventure novels.
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