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Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel
INFINITE DAYS is solid YA, told in the voice of 16-year old Lenah Beaudonte a brutal, bloodthirsty, vampire queen who sacrifices her eternal life for finite salvation and becomes human. Here's the pitch: Lenah Beaudonte is, in many ways, your average sixteen-year-old: the new girl at Wickham Boarding School, she struggles to fit in enough to survive and stand out enough to catch the eye of the golden-boy captain of the lacrosse team. Like any private school worth its salt, petty jealousies, cliquish cattery and unassailable privilege define Wickham as readily as the crest on the gates, and it takes quite a bit to raise the eyebrows of the seen-it-all set. But Lenah Beaudonte just happens to be a recovering five-hundred-year-old vampire queen, and – as it turns out – that makes everything about her rather more intriguing. After centuries of terrorizing Europe with her unique brand of gleeful mayhem and wanton cruelty, Lenah realized that the one thing she wanted in her (after)life was to be human again. Drawing upon her not-inconsiderable feminine and vampiric wiles, she convinced her maker/lover/soul-mate, Rhode, to discover and perform the dangerous ritual that could restore to her the humanity he had stolen so long ago. To complete her transformation, she entered a century-long comatose hibernation, leaving behind the coven she had ruled and the countless acts of evil they had wrought upon the world. Until, that is, Lenah awakes at Wickham, drawing her first natural breath in centuries and rediscovering a human life that bears little resemblance to the one she had known. And, as if suddenly becoming a teenager weren’t stressful enough, each passing hour hears another tick of the time-bomb, counting down to the moment when her abandoned coven will open the crypt where Lenah should be sleeping, and find her gone. As her borrowed days slip by, Lenah resolves to live her newfound life as fully as the passing moments allow. But, to do so, she must first answer the ominous questions at hand: Can an ex-vampire survive in a time and place so alien to her? What can Lenah do to protect her new friends from the bloodthirsty menace about to descend upon them? And how is she ever going to pass her biology midterm?
Series: ? (#1)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: August 03 2010
Ooo. A vampire queen who gives it all up?
This... this is new.
I like this.
Also, eyes on the cover? Gorgeous.
What says you?
