Synopsis
WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.
A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.
Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid.
Though she knows little about the far north--where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service--Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery--and at the center of it all is her.
Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She'll need to learn the rules of her new home--and fast--or its halls will soon become her grave.
A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.
Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid.
Though she knows little about the far north--where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service--Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery--and at the center of it all is her.
Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She'll need to learn the rules of her new home--and fast--or its halls will soon become her grave.
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2022 Editions Ace Books
304 pages
27 septembre 2022
ISBN : 9780593438466
2022 Editions Penguin Random House
292 pages
ISBN : 9781804992999
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J'ai beaucoup aimé l'ambiance gothique construite dans cette histoire, mais aussi le concept de ces "bloodmaids", domestiques au service d'une maison noble, dont le rôle est de nourrir leur maître... avec leur sang. L'intrigue se met en place tranquillement, faisant monter lentement la tension pour ensuite nous livrer un final plus rythmé.
J'ai aimé l'esthétique et le worldbuilding de ce roman, ses personnages très gris et son côte oppressif qui se mêle à merveille avec l'horreur. La représentation saphique m'a touchée même si la relation principale est très toxique (dénoncée). Si l'ambiance m'a convaincue, l'intrigue aurait mérité de démarrer un peu plus vite ; le dernier tiers est top mais c'est un peu long pour y arriver.
Arf je suis mitigée. D'un coté j'ai beaucoup aimé ma lecture mais de l'autre j'ai quand même ce sentiment de : c'est tout ? Je m'attendais à un peu peu plus que ça, surtout au niveau du final. Cependant l'ambiance du roman est au top et j'ai adoré les personnages ainsi que la représentation saphique représentée.