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Constanta - vengeful bride of dracula -- from A Dowry of Blood
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books i read in 2023: an education in malice by s. t. gibson
I loved getting under her skin. I loved knowing that, if I tried hard enough, my words could pierce her armor and disturb something inside of her. I could see that I had an effect, even if she tried to hide it. It was in the furrowing of her brows and the tightening of her mouth every time I stood up in class to read. If I couldn't touch her, I would settle for making her squirm.
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“We’ve waltzed through a hundred tiny apocalypses, you and I, walked unharmed through the ash of countless crumbling regimes. We feast on the ruin of empires […]. Their destruction is our high feast day”.
S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood, p. 156.
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I kept my tastes quiet, kept them private, feeding them only rarely and when I was sure I wouldn’t get caught. I often felt like a wolf wearing the skin of a girl, balancing on two legs and hoping no one would notice. But this girl , this Carmilla … she undid all my domestication. One smile from her and I wanted to loose my hair and chase her barefoot through the woods, I wanted to knock her to the ground and pin her like a butterfly, I wanted to dig my teeth into her plush lower lip, I wanted, I wanted.
S. T. Gibson, An Education In Malice
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I have two book recommendations for people who recently finished the first season of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire and may find themselves in withdrawal for media about fucked-up queer vampires!
The first is A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, which is a novella about Dracula’s first bride, Constanta, told in the form of a letter addressing her late husband after she murdered him. It’s both a haunting tale of abuse and a lush gothic story, using vampirism as a vehicle to explore an obsessive, controlling romantic relationship. It’s also very queer, as Constanta is bisexual and the relationship between Dracula and his spouses is a M/F/F/M polyamorous relationship. Gibson’s prose is deliciously gothic and I really enjoyed the way that the story plays with the epistolary form, such as Constanta refusing to grant her husband the privilege of a name in her narrative. (Originally released by a small publishing house in 2021, it was picked up by a larger publisher and rereleased with the new cover pictured above.)
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson just came out a few weeks ago and is another deliciously dark gothic fantasy. It follows Marion, a poor girl from the slums who answers a newspaper add seeking a “bloodmaid” and ends up in the service of Lisavet, a countess who feeds on human blood. In the service of her new mistress, Marion is drawn into both an obsessive, passionate relationship and a tangle of dark intrigue and secrets that threatens to destroy her new life. Henderson’s writing is both atmospheric and gory while the relationship between Marion and Lisavet is tense, sexy, and vicious. Marion is also a Black lesbian and the novel is steeped in commentary on vampires as members of the upper class who exploit and literally feed off of the lower class.
They’re both excellent books and I think if you’re looking to scratch an itch for gothic horror and queer vampire romance they might do the job! (Edit: they are also both adult novels, not YA, and have a fair amount of violence, sexual content, and gore.)
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A Dowry of Blood | S.T. Gibson
✨ Finished reading this novel yesterday. I haven’t been truly in love with a new authors writing style in so long. Gibson’s prose is so beautiful and detailed it was so fun to read. this novel was so good beginning to end I didn’t want it to end. I’m a sucker for vampire novels and this one did not disappoint. I was sad when it ended I wanted more Magdalena, Constanta, and Alexi. Gave this novel a 5/5 ⭐️ which is my first one since may! ✨
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Yay! I got this great cat in the mail!
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— an education in malice headers. 🏰
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I read A Dowry of Blood and made this… I just haaaaad to put them in period dress 😳🥴
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EVOCATION COVER REVEAL
I'm thrilled to unveil the cover for EVOCATION, book one in my urban fantasy romance series. Evocation kicks off the Summoner's Circle series, and follows David, a psychic medium and hotshot lawyer, who must team up with his sorcerer ex-boyfriend and the ex's witch wife to break a family curse. Forced proximity, magic lessons, and polyamory ensure, all against the moody backdrop of Boston.
I'm absolutely breathless with what a phenomenal job artist Eleonor Piteira and designer Alice Coleman have done bringing David to life, and I'm indebted to the entire Angry Robot crew for all they do for me.
The day David Aristarkhov’s occultist father died, he bought himself an Audi, drank every drop of liquor in the house, and abandoned his life as a teen psychic prodigy. Now pushing thirty, David is a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a medium for a secret society.
But when the Devil comes to collect on a deal David’s ancestor made, he reluctantly reaches out to his ex-boyfriend Rhys for help. However, to get to Rhys, David will have to befriend Moira, Rhys’s wife. The trio gets a little too close for comfort as they combine their powers to unravel the century-old curse, and if they don’t break the curse by David’s thirtieth birthday, he won’t live long enough for everyone to figure out their feelings for each other.
EVOCATION hits shelves in May of 2024, so there's still time to preorder from any of your favorite retailers! You can also add the book to Goodreads, or post about it on socials using the hashtag #manifestingevocation.
ANGRY ROBOT // BARNES AND NOBLE // AMAZON US // AMAZON UK // GOODREADS
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“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of depts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood
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Finished S.T. Gibson’s An Education in Malice, her new dark academia sequel to A Dowry of Blood. 3 stars. Pretty good, but not great.
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how I pictured the characters in a dowry of blood:
dracula (thomas doherty)
constanta (anya taylor-joy)
magdalena (simone ashley)
alexi (gavin casalegno)
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