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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. A page turner of fantasy, mixed with sexy paranormal romance and vampires. Meet Hiro and Hide. Hiro is a attractive geisha, with a beautiful singing voice who started life as an orphaned street urchin. Hide’s relationship with Hiro starts when Hide wins Hiro in a street fight. Follow their adventure as Hiro transforms from geisha to fighter through Hide’s instructions as together, they fight enemies bent on their destruction. Friendship and the sacrifices made for the sake of love are the themes of the book. Add it to your read list now! Appartient à la série
In Hiro's world, youkai are a supernatural story used to scare children into obedience, and to keep men out of back alleys and brothels. Until Sakurai Hideyoshi walks through his door with a fantastical tale of a samurai who had killed a thousand men and drank the blood of his enemies, a man that lived in darkness but sought beauty to keep it at bay. A story both terrifying and romantic...and completely ridiculous.Unless it is true.Convinced something softer lurks behind Hideyoshi's hard mask, Hiro follows him home. And discovers the story is real.Only instead of the blood of his enemies, it is innocent blood taken. Hideyoshi tells him never to return. Yet after Hiro's mother is mortally wounded, Hiro runs back to the one being he knows with the power to save her. When Hideyoshi can't, Hiro begs him for the next best thing: the power to avenge her.As Hiro becomes youkai, he faces a new threat, something darker, older, and far more dangerous. With Hideyoshi at his side, Hiro must decide what he's willing to sacrifice--and what he's willing to do--to protect this new life before he loses everything for a second time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The main characters, Hiro and Hideyoshi, are youkai (vampire like immortal monsters). While not hiding their monstrous actions, the story paints them in a almost human like light, as though they are still clinging to that very edge of humanity not quite ready to fully give into their darker side. It’s beautiful to watch them grow and change throughout the story, seeing just how close to the edge they can get without falling over.
While this book in the series could, theoretically, stand on its own, I do suggest reading the previous books first. Many details of the setting, time, and the youkai are easier to understand when added to those described in the earlier book.
All in all, it was a very good read full of dark twists and turns that really leave you wanting more…