You know those Buzzfeed articles and Tumblr posts that are all about the "Details I Bet You Didn't Notice In XYZ"? The things that make you tingle with excitement, the things that make you hate how clever authors can be. That is this book.
Marcus Sedgwick's novel "Midwinterblood" is...amazing and confusing and full of fantasy and gothic feels and Norse theories. It's the kind of books you have to take notes for when you start seeing the recurring imagery/themes so you can fully appreciate it's creative construction. It's...hard to explain. Read it anyway, for me.
["Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens.
In a novel comprising seven parts, each influenced by a moon - the flower moon, the harvest moon, the hunter's moon, the blood moon - this is the story of Eric and Merle whose souls have been searching for each other since their untimely parting."]
Eric and Merle's souls find each other in each new generation, each new series of characters and stories and sacrificing. There's love and revenge and vampires and kings and a constantly reoccurring magical flower.
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