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House of Hunger
- Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's summary
WANTED—Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.
A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.
Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid.
Though she knows little about the far north—where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service—Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery. At the center of it all is Countess Lisavet.
The countess, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when she discovers that the ancient walls of the House of Hunger hide even older secrets, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home—and fast—or its halls will soon become her grave.
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After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, 17-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boardinghouse. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house's mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside and his unusual staff are meant to execute their own justice on those who are past being saved.
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One of the characters is Satan..lots of the occult
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England, 1851: When Clara Chapman receives an intriguing invitation to spend Christmas at an English manor home, she is hesitant yet feels compelled to attend - for if she remains the duration of the 12 day celebration, she is promised a sum of 1,000 pounds. But is she walking into danger? It appears so, especially when she comes face to face with one of the other guests - her former fiancé, Benjamin Lane.
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Delightful Dickens Mystery!
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Powerful and dangerous Highlander Dair Sinclair was once the favored son of his clan, the Sinclairs of Carraig Brigh. With Dair at the helm, Sinclair ships circled the globe bringing home incredible fortune - until one deadly mission drives him mad. When a pagan healer predicts that only a virgin bride can heal his son's body and mind, Dair's father sets off to find the perfect wife for his son. At the castle of the fearsome McLeods, he meets lovely and kind Fia MacLeod.
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By: Lecia Cornwall
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The Spirit Lens
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For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. But when the king of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled.
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By: Carol Berg
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Wintersong
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- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
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All her life, 19-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family's inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Kathe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above.
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Muddled
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By: S. Jae-Jones
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Audie Award, Romance, 2016. Dorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of Victorian London's wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who've wronged him... and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception-and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands....
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My Favourite yet
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By: Kerrigan Byrne
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My name is Etan, and I am Adorned. A living piece of art, I exist to please the divine rulers of Kered. With nowhere to turn after my father died, I tried my luck in the capital city. Little did I know how quickly I would be robbed, beaten and forced to sell myself into servitude. But I was lucky enough to gain the attention of Roberd Tallisk, an irascible but intriguing tattoo artist who offered to mark me with enchanted ink for the enjoyment of the nobles. I was given a chance to better my station in life, and I could not refuse.
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Bloody Brilliant...until the last few chapters
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England, 1888. Quiet and scholarly Princess Emilie has always avoided adventure, until she's forced to disguise herself as a tutor in the household of the imposing Duke of Ashland, a former soldier disfigured in battle and abandoned by his wife. When chance draws her into a secret liaison with the duke, Emilie can't resist the opportunity to learn what lies behind his forbidding mask and find out what adventure really means. The duke never imagines that his son's tutor and his mysterious golden-haired beauty are one and the same.
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Don't miss this Exciting New Trilogy
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By: Juliana Gray
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Witchmark
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Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be a slave to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn't leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family. Even after faking his own death and reinventing himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veteran's hospital, Miles can't hide what he truly is.
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hell of a ride
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Bloodleaf
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Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her.
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Not Understanding All the Praise
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By: Crystal Smith
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The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
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In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives an unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire. One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah’s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah’s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid.
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Gave up
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Cover Her Face
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Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James' electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
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OK but...
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Interesting Re-imagining of Vampirism
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson is a beautifully spooky novel where vampirism is treated as an illness that nobles from the North inherit along with their ancient wealth, requiring them to have a steady supply of blood that must be filled from multiple sources. That blood is supplied by bloodmaids, young women hired to be companions to these nobles who live in luxury with them, jockeying with each other for the position of reigning favorite. These young women are promised pensions that will leave them wealthy once their contracts with the nobles are complete. At the same time, bloodmaids are considered similar to, if not worse than, prostitutes and the loss of their blood takes a toll on them physically.
Marion begins the story in difficult straights as a house cleaner who is treated terribly by her employer while also having to deal with an abusive brother who tries to squander what little money she earns on drugs. When she finds an ad in the paper for a bloodmaid, she applies for the position and is accepted with suspicious ease. The difficulty of her circumstances and the promise of life-changing wealth lead her to cut ties with her former life very brutally so she can escape to the North. Once there, she meets Countess Lisavet Bathory and is officially hired and brought into a life of opulence and leisure that she has never known before. But even as Marion settles into her new life, she discovers signs of a more dangerous reality hiding beneath all the luxury.
I loved how Henderson fleshed out the world-building not just with Marion gaining info dumps but also through the epigraphs which were made up of quotes from various bloodmaids and supervisors of the maids from all the different houses. That gave the feeling of depth to the world and views that existed beyond what Marion had access to. It was also interesting that Henderson seemed to base this novel on the legends surrounding the real Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who seems to be the basis for Countess Lisavet Bathory. She was accused of murdering hundreds of women and was rumored to bathe in the blood of virgins to retain her youth. Lisavet similarly relies on the blood of younger women to retain her health.
Lisavet draining other women for her own gain as well as pitting those women against each other so they are competing for her favor highlights a prominent issue that women have to deal with in interacting with each other. Often, women are taught to see each other as enemies on sight regardless of whether the idea is justified. It's based on the belief that there are only so many slots available for women so they must combat each other to gain those slots. Typically, it would be a man in the position that Lizavet is in in this scenario. So it's interesting to see a woman not only exploiting other women, but making them see each other as the enemy instead of her. She's weaponizing a sexist system to her own gain. Had this been played as natural and right, I would cry fowl, But this is absolutely something Henderson was critiquing and unpacking as part of the narrative, which enriched the overall story and was essential in strengthening the plot's resolution.
I couldn't give it five stars because I couldn't connect to the characters. Marion had a lot of potential as a heroine with her rough upbringing and the desperate tragedy that led to her accepting a position as a bloodmaid. But despite that, she didn't feel like she had much personality. She simply flowed along with the plot, tagging along with the reader from plot point to plot point without actually seeming to guide the story herself. Since the story was so strong, the inability to become emotionally invested in the main character wasn't a complete hindrance.
Overall, this is an excellent book.
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- Cynthia
- 10-18-23
Expected more since her first book was amazing
I was excited to read this because of the author's previous book, The Year of the Witching (absolutely loved!), but this one was kind of a letdown. I thought it was going to consist of thrill, maybe a bit eerie. It wasn't terrible, it certainly wasn't great,l. It had an incredibly slow build-up and was hard to finish.
*spoilers*
I loved that the main character Marion was made to be a survivor, a great female lead character, until she's not.
It has a random wlw love story between Marion and Lisavet that I'm still having a hard time connecting how it happened; like it was rushed or thrown out of nowhere. I had to repeat the chapter a second time and then go back a couple of chapters to see if I missed it. If there was, I obviously still missed it. AND Marion has this NEED for Lisavet's love and attention and gets jealous even. But I don't get it. I know she has this need to please her but the love part I don’t get.
The best part of the book, a bit of a thrill, doesn't happen until the end when Marion figures out what has been happening with other bloodmaids, oh and then there's the escape but that's it.
The narrators did a great job.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-02-23
Could not stop listening!
This was a fantastic book! I loved how the characters came to life and could even imagine what they liked like from the brilliant writing and narrative! Recommend highly !
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- Bookn.All.Night
- 10-14-22
Not what I expected! loved the story and narrator
4.5 Rounded to 5
Wow. This wasn't at all what I expected! It's dark, atmospheric...dark 😂 This is the perfect Spooktober read. The narrator for this one is FANTASTIC. It's rare I find one that I want to keep listening so that was a huge plus for me. I'm honestly not sure I would have enjoyed this as much of I read it LOL Highly recommend for those that want different and love gothic type horror.
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- Petra
- 01-09-23
Fantastic take on a classic tale.
This book was well paced and well thought out. The lore, world building and reason given for the blood drinking were creative and expertly written. I felt like there was a tiny something missing that I can’t put my finger on. Maybe it was the of questions answered at the end. To be gauge enough to not spoil the ending, I want to know, is this an isolated thing, or widespread?
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- Scentedflowers
- 09-23-23
Good story
Very straight forward
Gets right to point although I think the heroine was very naive
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- Jmashburn
- 01-23-24
Interesting enough to hold my attention
I feel like the style of writing wasn’t for me and that’s obviously not the writer’s fault, but I did feel as though it was a very slow moving plot which was interesting but never quite got captivating. I felt the story could have shortened in some areas to make room for more suspense and action. By the time we finally get to good parts, it’s almost to the end.
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- K. Cutchlow
- 03-16-24
The story lost something along the way for me
I liked this story overall but it kind of lost something in the middle for me. I can’t place what it is but It lost gusto which dropped its rating imo
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-14-24
Fun fall book
Was a fun book to listen to during spooky months with the old vampire vibes. I enjoyed the development of the characters and how the played off of each other. A touch of spicy but not to much so it Made it a fairly easy ready.
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- Megan Lane
- 07-05-24
I devoured this!!!
This is one of the books that I’ve binge listened to from start to finish the actor who does all of the voices is absolutely incredible and believable so good that you forget that she’s playing multiple characters even though I’m in after myself, I got lost completely in the story. it was so good that I’m going to look up author written books and get them too!!
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