- Hardcover: 435 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First edition (11 Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316903523
- ISBN-13: 978-0316903523
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,473,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The sequel to "Dark Dance". The House is destroyed, the Scarabae dead or scattered, and the youngest and most dangerous of them, voracious for destruction, is free. Ruth, a mind as old as evil in the body of a teenage girl, unleashes blood and fire across southern England.
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hard to find, but worth it!
28 Oct 1999
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Well, the book is worth five stars, but since you can't find it anywhere, there's almost no point in reviewing it. The book is so good, however, that I suggest going to a good library and searching for it there.
Personal Darness is the sequel to Dark Dance, where the reader first meets Rachaela, a beautiful young woman with clouds of black hair and blue eyes. Rachaela is completely alone, a little silent insland in the middle of bustling London, but her life changes drastically when she goes to the countryside to live with her father's family, one of the most bizarre and unusual groups of people in literature.
In Personal Darkness, the story takes right up where Dark Dance left off, and winds its way through several different plots. The twists and turns are unexpected and truly... different, gothic and mad, with the original cast of characters still in top form, and a slew of new ones who are equally compelling.
This is a lush, strong, strange, gothic, extremely unusual novel. I don't really know how to explain it. For a while there it seems to be Tanith Lee's answer to Anne Rice's vampire series, but turns completely upside down and mutates into an altogether different story. Like all of Lee's work, the story hides under the guise of formula, but remains its strange, original, different self.
If you ever come across this book or its predecessor, I strongly suggest you pick it up. The wonderful characters of Rachaela, Althene, and even Ruth are worth it, and the character Malach, a white-haired warrior-priest who debutes in this novel, is absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend it.
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