Written in the Blood
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"See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town. See the man, having come of age in extraordinary suffering and tragedy in nineteenth-century Budapest, witness to horror, to love, to death, and the wrath of a true monster. Izsak still lives in the present day, impossibly middle-aged. He's driven not only to hunt this immortal evil but to find his daughter, stolen from an Arctic cabin and grown into the thing Izsak has sworn to kill. See the monster, a beautiful, seemingly young woman who stalks the American West, seeking the young and the strong to feed upon, desperate to return to Europe where her coven calls"--Dust jacket flap.
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1 primary book#2 in The String Diaries
The String Diaries is a 1-book series first released in 2014 with contributions by Stephen Lloyd Jones.
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Originally posted on bluchickenninja.com.
I got a copy of this book from the publisher via bookbridgr. In the small amount of research I did I saw no mention of the fact that it is a sequel. If I had known it was a sequel I would not have requested it.
This book does not explain what is going on in this world. It assumes that the reader has read the first book; The String Diaries. The book focuses on the mysterious people known as the hosszu eletek but never actually explains what the hosszu eletek actually are. Some parts of the book simply don't make any sense and others refer back to The String Diaries without ever explaining fully what happened.
I tried to read this without reading The String Diaries and got very confused. Having gone back to read the first book I will say that this was mildly interesting. I was just pissed that I had to go read another book just to understand what was going on.
This was a good follow up, and I am really glad I gave it shot even though I had some issues with the rape in book one. It was sad and yet also had a lot of moments that felt cathartic. I enjoyed seeing the journey of the characters and the ending was the perfect mix of hopefulness and sadness.
