Lucy Timeless
Romantic Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy, LGBTQ Romance, Sapphic Fantasy
Del Rey
September 10, 2024
hardcover, book, audiobook
464
A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her personal seek for self-discovery and real love on this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Occasions bestselling creator of Conceal.
“Fiercely empowering and gloriously vengeful.”—Heather Walter, award-winning creator of Malice
Her identify was written within the pages of another person’s story: Lucy Westenra was one in all Dracula’s first victims.
However her dying was solely the start. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire and has spent her immortal life attempting to flee from Dracula’s clutches—and attempting to find who she actually is and what she actually desires.
Her undead life takes an sudden flip in twenty-first-century London, when she meets one other lady, Iris, who can also be craving to interrupt free from her previous. Iris’s household has constructed a well being empire based mostly on a sinister secret, and so they’ll do something to remain in energy.
Lucy has lengthy believed she would by no means love once more. But she finds herself compelled by the charming Iris whereas Iris is equally mesmerized by the assured and glamorous Lucy. However their intense connection and blossoming love is threatened by exterior forces. Iris’s mom gained’t let go of her with no struggle, and Lucy’s previous nonetheless has fangs: Dracula is on the prowl as soon as extra.
Lucy Westenra has been a tragically murdered teen, a lonesome adventurer, and a fearsome hunter, however happiness has all the time eluded her. Can she discover the power to destroy Dracula as soon as and for all, or will her coronary heart as soon as once more be her undoing?
“I’ll begin in the beginning. The start is, as all beginnings are, soaked in blood and shrouded in darkness. The tip will likely be, too, however we’ll get there collectively.”
Lucy Timeless by Kiersten White is the primary novel that I’ve learn by this creator, and I can guarantee you that it’s going to not be the final. Not solely was I completely consumed by the premise of Lucy Timeless, however I additionally discovered myself wholly gained over by the themes and the fierceness in the best way Kiersten White has brough the story of Lucy Westenra to life in each the previous and trendy timelines.
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I ought to begin by telling all of you who may be nervous about beginning Lucy Timeless, that studying Dracula as a precursor will not be essential in any respect. Kiersten White’s storytelling is straightforward to observe and completely enchanting. I discovered myself, greater than as soon as, unable to place my e-reader down. It’s nice. Stirring a pot solely requires one hand and minimal focus, proper?
“Expensive, expensive Mom, who loves like a knife, slicing me into ever smaller items till I’m precisely the form that pleases her essentially the most.”
Readers meet Iris Goldaming, new inheritor to her household’s megalithic fortune and enterprise empire, as she’s operating away to London within the hopes to seek out sufficient fast money by divesting property. She in the end desires to vanish, wanting nothing to do together with her mom’s nefarious legacy. Iris shortly enlists the assistance of her trip share driver, in addition to the enigmatic blonde goddess who saves her on her first day in London.
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Lucy’s story is instructed in journal entries previous to her run-in with Dracula. These entries present a younger lady who desperately desires to decide on the love of her life, however is constrained by societal norms, a strict and overbearing mom, and a handful of suitors. Lucy’s descriptions of her suitors are each insightful and comical.
“Maybe they may kill one another! Then I can prettily mourn them and be free. I do fairly just like the drama of black lace. I’d look pretty, pretending to cry over their graves as my darling held me shut.”
The opposite POV is Lucy as she offers an interview. Instructed in a deposition type, she’s giving her undead story in all of the gory particulars. The power and guile it takes Lucy to outlive via such tumultuous occasions in historical past made me adore her much more.
The way in which the previous culminates with the current is a twist that I assumed I noticed coming, however didn’t actually grasp absolutely till Kiersten White unveiled all of it close to the final third of the e book. I really like an incredible twist, and this one stored me up late into the night time. Taking a gothic fantasy and making it trendy is not any simple feat, but Kiersten White handles that problem fantastically in Lucy Timeless.
“Mendacity in regards to the existence of monsters by no means saved anybody from falling sufferer to them.”
Simply among the finest tales of the 12 months, Lucy Timeless is an ode to sapphic love, female rage, and to the OG vampire story that has spawned numerous others. In the event you want a narrative that’s each distinctive and romantic, with loads of motion, and thriller to maintain you hooked, you then completely have to learn Lucy Timeless! Accessible in all places now, don’t need in your copy! Congrats on an excellent new launch, Kiersten White!
