The Descent - The Taker Trilogy v.3

Zusatztext Looking for a good read? Get ready to hear about a time-transcending page turner. Two years ago!having just finished The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice and The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer! I was still hungry for more of the supernatural. My only hesitation was that I wanted something a little more plausible than blood-sucking vampires. As fate would have it! I stumbled upon The Taker by Alma Katsu. Dutifully! I checked reviews before purchasing the book. How I hadn’t heard of it prior to then is beyond me! as the book was insanely well-received and only growing in popularity. I took the novel home and was blown away by the captivating story of an impressionable young woman! the “Adonis” who she falls in love with and the “monster” who falls in love with her. Lanore! Jonathan and Adair had me spellbound like no other characters have. The Taker satiated my need for the supernatural! but was unique in it’s portrayal of everlasting love and unrelenting obsession! both of which know no boundaries for these characters. The second installment! The Reckoning ! was equally fascinating—the never-ending love chase propelling the jump between several different time periods and beautiful locations all over the world. Finally! the end of this twisted tale will come to an end with Katsu’s final installment! The Descent . Informationen zum Autor Alma Katsu Klappentext The final installment in the "mesmerizing" ("Booklist!" starred review) and addictive trilogy--readers find out who truly holds the key to Lanny's heart and whether she'll ever be reunited with her beloved in this gripping supernatural tale of magic! lust! and longing. The Descent ONE The sunlight glinting off the Mediterranean that afternoon was bright enough to blind, and the boat bounced hard off the waves like a broken-down carnival ride. I’d come halfway around the world to find someone who was very important to me, and I wouldn’t let a little rough weather keep me from finishing my journey. I squinted against the headwind to the horizon, trying to will a rocky shoreline to appear out of nowhere. “Is it much farther?” I asked the captain. “Signorina, until I met you this morning, I never knew this island even existed, and I have lived on Sardegna my entire life.” He was in his fifties if he was a day. “We must wait until we get to the coordinates, and then we will see what we shall see.” My stomach floated unsteadily, due to nerves and not the waves. I had to trust that the island would be where it was supposed to be. I’d seen strange things in my lifetime—my long lifetime—many of them stranger than the sudden appearance of an island that heretofore had not existed. That would be a relatively minor miracle, on the scale of such things, considering I’d already lived over two hundred years and was destined to live forever. But I was a mere babe compared to the man I was going to see, Adair, the man who had given me—or burdened me, depending on your point of view—with eternal life. His age was inestimable. He could’ve been a thousand years old, or older. He’d given differing stories every time we met, including the occasion of our last parting four years ago. Had he been a student of medicine in medieval times, devoted to science and caught in the thrall of alchemy, intent on discovering new worlds? Or was he a heartless manipulator of lives and souls, a man without a conscience who was interested only in extending his life for the pursuit of pleasure? I didn’t think I’d gotten the truth yet. We had a tangled history, Adair and I. He had been my lover and my teacher, master to my slave. We had literally been prisoner to e...

Product details

• Authors: Alma Katsu
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2013
• EAN: 9781451651829
• ISBN: 978-1-4516-5182-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Gallery Books; The Taker Trilogy; The Taker Trilogy
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy