Cruel nights heart Charlie died in Nevada 1973 after seeing Led Zeppelin live on stage and making the wrong choice on the long drive home Corey meets him at a TAD gig seventeen years later and feels an immediate attraction They both swear their night together will be a onetime thing but neither can stay away Corey and Charlie spend two decades building a life together a mortal and vampire in love but there are some things Corey s not willing to give up She can move cities when Charlie s eternal youth raises suspicion and she can rebuild her career as a music journalist after every disruption to their life but as she gets older it s harder and harder to be satisfied with their nocturnal existence Then a moment of weakness delivers Charlie and Corey the one thing they never expected to have and their relationship gets complicated than either of them ever dreamed A punk noir Only Lovers Left Alive Edgy bloody and surprising Cruel Nights shows Nahrung s just getting better and better Angela A. Cruel nights heart G Slatter award winning author of The Briar Book of the Dead No one writes vampires like Nahrung A bloody perfect cocktail of grunge love and angry this book sings Trent Jamieson author of Day Boy and The Stone Road Compelling dark and bittersweet I ve never read or loved a vampire story quite like Cruel Nights Nahrung takes familiar horror tropes and creates something completely new injecting them with grunge love and intrigue It s extraordinary Steven Paulsen author of Shadows on the Wall and Dream Weaver Cruel Nights site_link post a commentThere s a lot going on in this novella and all of it is good In the first place there s been a lot said about the problematic nature of ancient male vampires having a thing for the young ladies Twilight took the idea of vampires not ageing and made them students I have no idea how old Edward was when he turned I watched the first film from a cultural studies perspective anyway so the lovers didn t LOOK that different in age which I guess was meant to make it less squicky Nahrung approaches the whole question of age and appearance from a different angle I won t say his focus is unique vampires do not tend to be my thing so maybe it s been done a lot see how I avoided done to death But it s something that s obvious once it s pointed out what happens for someone who doesn t seem to age if they re in a relationship with someone who does age How will the partner be perceived The way the key relationship here is approached is the reason I read this in under a day Second I like to think I would have picked up the Heart inspiration based on some of the chapter titles Magic Man in particular if I didn t already know but certainly once I got to well A particular scene If you know any of the iconic Heart songs you can probably guess what I m referring to No I am not talking about a big toothed fish or any metaphor along those lines I ve read a lot of books that use music in various ways and Nahrung s done it very nicely Finally in under 150 pages Nahrung manages to evoke the experience of growing up in Seattle in the 1990s needing to move for work and love and all the hardship that entails family love and drama AS WELL AS the whole vampire aspect It s a compact story tightly written I can imagine this being turned into a massive novel or duology by someone else but it doesn t need to be the novella perfectly conveys Charlie and Corey s experiences Highly enjoyable 9781922479679 A slick and innovative domestic vampire story set mostly in the Pacific Northwest before during and after the grunge explosion Beautifully wrought characters embedded in a setting and cultural moment dear to my heart Despite the North American setting this is a very Australian book and I love that about it too. Cruel nights heart An achingly humane take that makes the tropes feel fresh or leaves them for dead 9781922479679 Set against the grunge backdrop of Seattle in the 1990s this is a story about love sex music and the needs of both mortals and vampires As a vampire Charlie has been warned against drawing attention and making attachments As a wild schoolgirl intent on a music journalism career Corey sneers at warnings The love that unfolds between them over the ensuing decades shouldn t workCruel Nights is unlike any vampire story I ve read before and Nahrung s handling of the story is both beautiful and brutal Highly recommended 9781922479679 Compelling dark and bittersweet I ve never read or loved a vampire story quite like Cruel Nights Nahrung takes familiar horror tropes and creates something completely new injecting them with grunge love and intrigue It s extraordinary 9781922479679

Cruel Nights By Jason Nahrung

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Australia s master of undead horror returns with a grunge soaked tale of love and vampirism in 90s Seattle