Salutaris edition by Gev Sweeney Religion Spirituality eBooks
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"The Church said you can't see God in Hell, but to Hance that
night in a small, close room where radiators hissed away the cold,
and tapestry drapes muffled the icy scourging of the world beyond
the walls, Emmy Kydd was the mirror that caught God's light from
afar and shone it upon him as freely as if it were her own. "
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Priest. Professor. Musician.
Vampire.
Long a prisoner of the Church, John Hance is damned to eternal life drinking the blood of Christ instead of the blood of humans. An enigmatic girl becomes his student at the obscure college where he's taught for nearly seven years. She knows too much about him. Is she insane or ingenuous? Or is she a divine emissary sent to remind him that sometimes, justice is something else?
Salutaris edition by Gev Sweeney Religion Spirituality eBooks
This is a deep, complicated read that is not for the light hearted. I would recommend reading this story on the beach or late at night. It needs to be read when you have the undivided attention to consume and digest it all in. If you're ion that state of mind as a reader, the. I highly recommend it. It's a thought provoking read that will stay with you for a while. I highly recommend it.Product details
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Salutaris edition by Gev Sweeney Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
while my reaction could be viewed as an extreme, i do believe that this book will change my life. even if fleeting, the overwheming revival of hope this experience has allowed me to remember is a great gift. thank you.
Gev Sweeney has done something I never imagined could be done something entirely new and surprising and excellent with the tired old theme of vampires. There's no twinkling eternally young and eternally annoying Edwards here. But a lot of compassion and power and even a guinea pig. The writing is compelling, and the story hooks you from the first.
Started reading it last night, and have just finished it today. If you don't own a kindle, download an app for pc, mac or smartphone or nag until the author does a paperback.
Move over Anne Rice. There's a new girl on the block.
'Salutaris' is a vampire story like no other.
For one thing, unless I missed it somehow, the word vampire is never actually used! That the central character is a vampire is something that is inferred, implied, suggested - but not actually said.
And in fact there is a great deal in the story that is not actually spelled out It has a mystical atmosphere things happen which aren't quite explained, characters appear who may be more than they seem. If this leaves the reader feeling slightly bemused, then all the better to identify with the main character, who is himself struggling to understand what is happening to him.
John Hance is a brilliantly conceived character. A musician, a teacher, a priest, he is spared the blood-lust of his nature by a quite ingenious means (that I will not spoil the surprise of by revealing!) Tormented by pain and wracked with guilt over events that took place two hundred years ago, he finds solace only in his music. Until Emmy comes into his life, and things begin to change.
The details of that change I'll leave to you to find out! I'll simply say that it seemed to me that this was not a story about vampires at all but about human beings about their how the past can cripple us, and about how redemption can find us. And it is one of the most marvelously conceived and beautifully written stories I have read.
I'm not sure what to say about this novel. I loved it. To me five stars is a no brainer. It's just amazingly well-written. The prose is downright beautiful. It's properly proofread and professionally done. But I feel a need to warn readers, this is every inch a literary novel, and not your average vampire story, like all those others in which the vampire is a former opera singer, condemned to serve mass every day.
You don't need to know a lot about Catholicism or classical music -- though some knowledge might not hurt. This is one of those books that if you pay attention, you'll learn a thing or to. My point is this, if you are expecting a run-of-the-mill vampire blood fest -- look elsewhere. There is none of that here. None, zero. Nor is there any explicit vampire sex -- though based on the writing, I've no doubt that Sweeney could have handled that well. As far as what vampires can and can't do, in Salutaris, Sweeney appears to be creating her own rules from scratch, and not rehashing other better known franchises. There is very little bloodletting of any kind, unless you count transubstantiation.
When I said "literary novel" I meant it, especially in the sense that character trumps plot. There is a plot, a fairly straightforward one, but more than anything this is about one man's search for redemption and grace, even though from his point of view he long ago gave up the search.
I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, I have never read anything by this author before. I was pleasantly surprised by the wonderful writing, the uniqueness of the story and the quiet, gentle way in which it was told. I almost regret the comments that say this is a story about a vampire because at no point did I feel this was true. A tortured soul forced to endure unending life, definitely, but he is not a vampire in the traditional Draula sense, nor the current starry eyed Twilight sense. He is a strong man with a tortured conscience and I felt for him every step of the way.
An excellent and rewarding read.
The story is a really nice twist on the tired old vampire theme.... in that was it reminds me of Sands of Time (Sam Shepard) in that it really is a completely different and unseen way to work a vampire story. They are both great!
The characters that Sweeney creates are great -- you really grab onto John and see that he is really human. He even forms relationships -- something that is taboo in most typical vamp fiction. It is a book that grabs you and you can read in a sitting. Whether you like vampires or not, this book is a great read... it is really a humanist story, not a vampire one.
This is a deep, complicated read that is not for the light hearted. I would recommend reading this story on the beach or late at night. It needs to be read when you have the undivided attention to consume and digest it all in. If you're ion that state of mind as a reader, the. I highly recommend it. It's a thought provoking read that will stay with you for a while. I highly recommend it.
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