December 9: the Darkangel Trilogy (for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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This is a three-book series, written by Meredith Ann Pierce in the 1980s, about vampires on the moon.
No, wait, come back!
The problem with these books is that every time I try to describe them, they come out sounding bizarre at best and ridiculously stupid at worst. To be fair, they are fairly out in left field -- I wasn't kidding about the whole vampires on the moon bit -- but the important thing is that they are AMAZING.
Our main character, Aeriel, is a slave girl whose mistress and friend, Eoduin, is kidnapped by the icarus (aka vampyre, aka darkangel) who lives in the abandoned kingdom of Avaric. In a vain attempt to save or rescue Eoduin, Aeriel gets herself kidnapped and winds up acting as the darkangel's housekeeper, which basically means taking care of the soulless zombie husks of his former "wives." Through a series of adventures, she finds herself in the position of being the one person who may be able to kill the icarus, if she can find the courage...
And that's just book one, The Darkangel, which for several years was the only one I knew existed since it was the only one my library owned. I actually read books one and two of Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy (which is about unicorns fighting an ancient grudge-match war with gryphons... no, wait, come back!) before I ran across a copy of A Gathering of Gargoyles under circumstances I can't remember, and it was another year or two before I found The Pearl of the Soul of the World at my junior high school's library.
I think I will put the rest of this under a cut, in case people want to read the series without spoilers. I mean, it's been complete for over twenty years, but it's also obscure, so I doubt most of you are familiar with the story.
( all the spoilers you can possibly imagine )
In short, I love this series and highly recommend it. ♥
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December Talking Meme: All Days
minutia_r) [Tumblr crosspost]This is a three-book series, written by Meredith Ann Pierce in the 1980s, about vampires on the moon.
No, wait, come back!
The problem with these books is that every time I try to describe them, they come out sounding bizarre at best and ridiculously stupid at worst. To be fair, they are fairly out in left field -- I wasn't kidding about the whole vampires on the moon bit -- but the important thing is that they are AMAZING.
Our main character, Aeriel, is a slave girl whose mistress and friend, Eoduin, is kidnapped by the icarus (aka vampyre, aka darkangel) who lives in the abandoned kingdom of Avaric. In a vain attempt to save or rescue Eoduin, Aeriel gets herself kidnapped and winds up acting as the darkangel's housekeeper, which basically means taking care of the soulless zombie husks of his former "wives." Through a series of adventures, she finds herself in the position of being the one person who may be able to kill the icarus, if she can find the courage...
And that's just book one, The Darkangel, which for several years was the only one I knew existed since it was the only one my library owned. I actually read books one and two of Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy (which is about unicorns fighting an ancient grudge-match war with gryphons... no, wait, come back!) before I ran across a copy of A Gathering of Gargoyles under circumstances I can't remember, and it was another year or two before I found The Pearl of the Soul of the World at my junior high school's library.
I think I will put the rest of this under a cut, in case people want to read the series without spoilers. I mean, it's been complete for over twenty years, but it's also obscure, so I doubt most of you are familiar with the story.
( all the spoilers you can possibly imagine )
In short, I love this series and highly recommend it. ♥
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December Talking Meme: All Days
