Book description
Our Own Unique Affliction is the story of Alice Ann, a dejected immortal who longs for her life in the sun. Navigating guilt, loss, family, meaning, murder, and all that comes with the curse of living forever. An existential bleak, quiet until it's not, hallucination on duality, rife with fangs,…
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1 author picked Our Own Unique Affliction as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book opens with a vampiric central character, whose confident, playful dialogue immediately draws you in.
After a nail-biting first scene, I buckled up for a vampire thrill ride of violence and bloodshed, but what I got was something that goes as much for the heartstrings as it does for the carotid artery. It maintains the excellently written dialogue and tight, expertly paced action, but it also gets down to the level of the vamps in the story: their philosophies, what it means to live forever, cursed as they are.
Superbly written, and a wonderfully crafted tale that offers so…
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