Book Review: Darkangel Series

I've finally finished reading the Darkangel series by Meredith Ann Pierce. Its a trilogy consisting of (1) The Darkangel, (2) A Gathering of Gargoyles and (3) The Pearl of the Soul of the World.

It's a story about a young servant girl called Aeriel whose mistress was taken away by a Darkangel - a vampire. She is later taken away to be the servant of the vampire to spin and weave for his twelve-and-one bride wraiths (the vampire has drained their blood and sucked their souls which he has imprisoned in his necklace). The vampire needs to get fourteen souls thus, fourteen wives to become a true vampire.

The story also revolves around a "rime" which foretells the downfall of the Witch who has drained the planet dry and the adventures that Aeriel has had to fulfill that rime.

Suffice it to say that the darkangel made Aeriel his fourteenth bride but Aeriel has fallen in love with the darkangel and did not kill him as prophesised but exchanged his heart of lead with her warm, beating heart.

The rest they say.. is history but no. You have to read the story!

It's both a Cinderella story as well as a Princess and the Pea story. The Cinderella story in the first part, Aeriel being overshadowed by her mistress, and later as a Princess-in-hiding from her Prince. The only consternation I have after reading the series is that I wished that Aeriel and Irrylath had stayed together.

I'm a sucker for happy endings.

And like someone I know once said, I still believe in love. No matter how cynical I may be.

sticky keys..

I opened up my lappy today. And the keys aren't working.. Huhuhu!! :'(

And the damn thing's only a month and a half old!!!!!!

Crap!

SURVEY FOR THE DAY: Gameday USA

undecided

Do you know..

I feel like I am on this edge.. this precipice.. I am waiting.. I don't know what.. Maybe something..

I feel like I am dreaming.. And I am just waiting to wake up.. or just go to sleep some more..

I feel like I'm waiting for something to explode.. or to reveal itself..

It feels like I am at a crossroad.. And I am waiting for a sign, a direction..

I sense this urgency inside of me.. trying to break free..

But I don't know what it's all about.