Review: Eternal Vigilance III — Bound in Blood by Gabrielle Faust

Title: Eter­nal Vig­i­lance III – Bound in Blood

Author: Gabrielle Faust

Pub­lisher: Imman­ion Press

Date (to be) Pub­lished: Sep­tem­ber 2010

Syn­op­sis: (for the series)

What if the fate of human­ity lay in the hands of one vampire?

After a century-​​long Sleep, Tynan Lly­we­lyn has awoken to find the world he once knew utterly oblit­er­ated by a bru­tal war of epic pro­por­tions. In a new apoc­a­lyp­tic soci­ety bit­terly divided by magic and tech­nol­ogy, the Tyst Empire has found that a hun­dred years of global dom­i­na­tion is not enough to sate their thirst for power. They have dis­cov­ered the secret of the vam­pire race and have designed a plan to seize their own sin­is­ter form of immor­tal­ity with the help of an ancient vam­piric god. The Phuree, a rebel upris­ing that has been engaged in a bloody war with the Tyst since the begin­ning of the new regime, have obtained the knowl­edge of Lord Cardone’s plans and have allied them­selves with the remain­ing Immor­tal clan. The pow­er­ful Phuree ora­cle, Nahalo, has had a vision that in Tynan alone lies the power to defeat the vam­piric god and the dic­ta­tor­ship. Cast in vio­lence and con­spir­acy into the midst of a global war between magic and tech­nol­ogy, mor­tals and vam­pires, in a new world he is still strug­gling to define, Tynan must make the har­row­ing deci­sion to save the world he so bit­terly detests or stand and watch as human­ity is destroyed by a pri­mor­dial evil beyond all imagining.

Eter­nal Vig­i­lance sweeps the audi­ence away with the darkly poetic, ancient voice of Tynan Llewe­lyn into a gritty and vio­lent future where humans and vam­pires are forced to work hand-​​in-​​hand to save the world from anni­hi­la­tion, where tech­nol­ogy has evolved far beyond the con­trol of its cre­ators and the bar­ri­ers that sep­a­rate the mor­tal realm from the world of the gods has begun to crum­ble. This ground break­ing tril­ogy will ensnare your heart and soul, leav­ing you breath­less and qui­etly pon­der­ing our uni­ver­sal fate, once the sun has gone down…

Syn­op­sis: (for Bound in Blood)

When Tynan Lly­we­lyn awoke from a cen­tury of Immor­tal Sleep in the year 2111 his Maker, Phe­lan Daray, deliv­ered him by force into the arms of a war between the Tyst Empire, a global tech­no­log­i­cal dic­ta­tor­ship bent on becom­ing immor­tal by res­ur­rect­ing a vam­piric god called the Vici­nus and the Phuree, the human rebel upris­ing. With­out a chance to fully adapt to the dan­ger­ous war-​​torn world around him, Tynan was forced to make a hor­rific choice to either stand and fight against the Tyst Empire, car­ry­ing out a mis­sion to assas­si­nate the Queen bear­ing the vam­piric god, or turn his back on the world, leav­ing it to the mercy of the Tyst’s greed and the Vici­nus’ revenge. Against his bet­ter judg­ment, he chose to fight.

Now, with the rage of a thwarted empire and a denied pri­mal god bear­ing down upon him, Tynan must make his final stand, risk­ing every­thing to save not only his own vam­piric race, but human­ity as well.

Where Did It Come From?

I bought it from Gabrielle at ArmadilloCon.

Why Did I Choose It?

After read­ing the first two in the series, I could not wait for the third to be avail­able and I was not to be disappointed.

My Review:

Faust’s imagery is so vivid that it’s hard at times to sep­a­rate her descrip­tions from your own imag­i­na­tion as you are drawn into the world of the Immor­tals, Phuree, Tyst, and Chronos.  The third book in the series picks up where the sec­ond left off, and it doesn’t stop until the very last page.  This was a book that I couldn’t read fast enough and yet I found myself tast­ing it word by word as if it were a trea­sure to be savored and not devoured.  It is rare that a book will elicit reac­tions from all the senses as the author weaves their tale, but Faust cer­tainly has this extra­or­di­nary abil­ity.  At a time when vam­pires sparkle in the sun­light, it’s a breath of fresh air to have some truly unique and entic­ing Immor­tals to lust after.

As you might guess, I highly rec­om­mend this book and the series in its entirety.  My only ques­tion for you is why haven’t you read it yet?

Now that all three are avail­able, pick them up and lock your­self away for a week­end if it even takes you that long to con­sume them.  You will want more of Faust’s writ­ings as well as more of the char­ac­ters you will grow to love.  I can only wait for what comes next from Gabrielle Faust.