Mozart's Blood
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Award winning author Louise Marley's compelling, intricately layered story of a beautiful soprano who shares an everlasting bond with the world's most notorious musical genius. . . Mozart's Blood Octavia Voss is an ethereal singer whose poise and talent belie her young age. In truth, she is a centuries-old vampire who once "shared the tooth" with Mozart himself. To protect her secret, Octavia's even more ancient friend Ugo stalks the streets to find the elixir that feeds his muse's soul. With Mozart's musical prowess coursing through her veins, the ageless Octavia reinvents herself with each new generation. But just as she prepares to take the stage at La Scala, Ugo inexplicably disappears, leaving Octavia alone--and dangerously unprotected. . . Octavia vows to find Ugo, but his fate is in the hands of forces much darker than she could ever imagine. And when she learns the truth behind his disappearance, Octavia realizes too late that the life hanging most in the balance is her own. . . "Riveting, original. . .filled with the emotional power and intricate twists and turns of a Mozart opera." --Tracy Grant, author of Beneath a Silent Moon
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Mozart's Blood is a story very much in the vein (if you'll pardon the pun) of Rice's Vampire Chronicles series - it presents a vampire, Octavia Voss, who is a tortured soul that ponders the morality of the taking of human life, and who is introspective and reflective of the long, preternatural life that she's lived.
The twist to this that makes Mozart's Blood worth checking out is that Octavia is a soprano, as is author Louise Marley. This adds a certain level of complication for Octavia, given that operatic audiences eventually start to notice when their singers don't age, and also adds a delicious level of subtext to the book. I found myself enjoying the backstage drama and description of an opera in progress significantly more than the preternatural elements (including a rather forced-feeling connection to Mozart that gives the book its name).
It's decadent, it covers a lot of thematic material that other vampire stories have covered, but I would say that this is still an essential read in the canon of any fan of vampire fiction.
