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Their mother dead, never knowing, who their father was, they lived alone in the large house. When Peverel Othman arrived in Little Moor he was looking for something or someone, he really was not sure which.

When he found the twins he knew his search was over. For Lily and Owen their lives would be forever changed. The quiet hamlet of Little Moor just became the new home of a Grigori. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published by Meisha Merlin Publishing first published January 1st More Details Original Title.

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Or is it just alluded to or fade to black kind of stuff? I want to read some queer fantasy books with legit romance that is as relevant as hetero romance.. See 1 question about Stalking Tender Prey…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 27, Brandon Witt rated it it was amazing. I have never read any other book like Stalking Tender Prey, so there is really nothing I can compare it to.

Truly original. There are only two downsides to this book, so I will start with those. It took me a long time to get through because it lost me in the beginning the first 60 pages or so and again at the end the last The rest more than made up for it. Completely sucked me in and left me panting for breath. The other semi-negative is that it doesn't really end, it just sets up for th I have never read any other book like Stalking Tender Prey, so there is really nothing I can compare it to.

The other semi-negative is that it doesn't really end, it just sets up for the next instalment. So really, it seems the story is just beginning.

The characters are engrossing on every level, very few are shallow or one-dimentional or simply good or bad. They feel so real and tangable. Even though their lives are something few of us can imagine, you can understand their feelings and reasonings because you get to know them so well and get inside their hearts and minds. Storm has the gift of words and description without a doubt.

Everything was sensual, everything. It was also very sexual, and while very small amounts were explictly descriptive, it was the most arousing novel I have read. While, there are many scenes and themes revolving around homosexuality some of the best I have read , it is by no-means simply a gay novel. Storm manages to make every scene shocking yet comprehendable and honest. The story line goes all over the place, and at times scans centuries. Once you catch onto the overall flow of the story, it is easy to follow.

I can not wait to read the second novel of this series, which is out of print, unfortunately, but I am sure it will be worth searching for. While not for the faint of heart or the easily offended, it is worth taking a chance on.

Jump on for one intense, unparalled adventure! Aug 15, Bill rated it it was amazing Shelves: mythic-legendary-fiction. This novel has all of the characteristics that make Storm Constantine such a compelling author.

The world she creates is conflated from the Sumarian creation myth of Enlil and Ninlil with the ancient Kabbalah and more recent Christian Cabbalistic apocryphal influences, especially the myths of Shemyaza and the Grigori and even Enochian magic.

Without any knowledge of these myths, the world seems real and almost likely. It would make a great neo-pagan spiritual system! With basic knowledge of thes This novel has all of the characteristics that make Storm Constantine such a compelling author. With basic knowledge of these myths it is an amazing accomplishment bringing them alive in modern Britain.

Her characters are delightful and most could easily find one or more to identify with. The prose or word-smithing it typical of Storm, that is flowing, exciting, well-paced and with enough esoterica to allow for googling and wiki-ing for those so inclined. It works on multiple levels and can be read as a great story, as a great story with allegorical themes or—This 1st book of this trilogy can open an entire new world for you to explore from our historical and mythic past, right back to the beginning of human writing.

Best, IMO, to read it all all levels. I had trouble genre-izing the novel. It typically falls into fantasy or dark or gothic fantasy. But I think it more than those so included it as mythic fantasy where I think it best fits. It is very much about our historical and mythic basis. Mar 20, David rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: hard core action-ready fantasy readers.

Just plain delicious. Deals with the Grigori, children of the fallen angels, the Watchers, etc. Very very different take on angels - more like they're supposed to be rather than cutsey wutsey cherubs and all that hogwash.

I definitely give it one of my highest ratings - but then again, you might suspect I'm a big fan of Storm Constanti Just plain delicious.

I definitely give it one of my highest ratings - but then again, you might suspect I'm a big fan of Storm Constantine's writings. Ludicrous but also very readable, akin to the English version of Anne Rice I guess.

Some utterly daft sex scenes - everyone seems to shag everyone else - but notable for the fact that although the protagonist is a thoroughly unlikeable creature; the story follows his manipulations of all the other characters which creates an interesting narrative. I'd read the rest of the trilogy. May 04, Ashke B.

I'm at a loss of how to review Constantine's magnum opus. It's a story that touches on some very base and primordial topics, and invokes the poetic feelings of early Clive Barker and Poppy Brite, with some Neil Gaiman thrown in. It's a blunt book, but I really didn't find it that graphic- it's incredibly tasteful and sensual instead. The plot is adequate enough, and is satisfying in how little you know throughout the book, and how many layers are built up before being peeled back.

But the love, c I'm at a loss of how to review Constantine's magnum opus. But the love, care, and thoroughness that went into presenting the historical mythology in a way not bogged down by obscuration, and the robust, tangible characters is where the book shines. Every single character is distinct, and as the reader it's very easy to slip into the world and become part of the story.

There are some kinks in how the pacing relates all the characters. I felt the links between Owen and Daniel, and the sudden surge of Daniel's budding powers- both aspects that were subtle in the beginning- came on a bit too sudden when they were presented in full. It makes sense in the plot once it's revealed why that's happened, but it's a little jarring when you've acclimated to the story's pace. Also there are characters introduced much later in the book very suddenly as well, who are important in regard to other characters whose subplot was out of sight for a good couple hundred pages.

It's not really a weakness, as there's something realistic in how that's worked into the main plot, but may feel convoluted to some people. Also, as other readers have pointed out, the book doesn't really have an ending, just leads into the next in the series. Regardless, it's a must read. I fell in love with Constantine's work somewhere around the second Wreathu book, but here she's polished with skills honed to razor sharpness.

View 1 comment. I know I'm supposed to review each book individually, but since I sort of inhaled the entire trilogy one after another, I'm going to have to review them all in one breath. So I'm naturally biased. I have a very one-track mind, and if I decide that I like someone's writing, I will like it until the universe burns down into a shriveled, black cinder unless Author does somethi I know I'm supposed to review each book individually, but since I sort of inhaled the entire trilogy one after another, I'm going to have to review them all in one breath.

I just have this born inclination to be a fangirl. I don't like writing bad things about people or their books. Though I do enjoy thinking about it sometimes, or swearing it out loud, when I'm sufficiently irritated.

I read it in the bus, in the jeepney, in the bathroom, at work, at the computer, before going to sleep, after waking up. It was an obsessive experience.

Throughout, all I could think of was how different it was to read fantasy books written by someone who actually practices magic versus those written by your typical cultural Christian.

It's like comparing an author's intimate memoir to the back-of-the-jacket author biographies written by someone who has met the author exactly once, and online. If you didn't know this already, Storm Constantine is pagan. She has written and published several books on magical practices, check them out at Immanion Press.

Thing is, I didn't know that when I first read her Wraeththu books, and even then, I was impressed by how detailed everything was. Alright, so mostly I was a teenaged girl impressed with all the sex, but stay with me, okay? It's not so much the description, it's the casual assumptions that the text makes, the quiet hints of something deeper, the cool, clear, massive iceberg-ness of it.

It impregnates everything -- like what happens when you leave a glass of water in a room full of roses, and the water tastes all perfumed and flowery afterwards. And, in STP anyway, this is all written in a way that doesn't overwhelm the rest of the story. Which is great, since it's an excellent, excellent story that had my nerves jangling and my concentration shot for about a week and , words.

So there's this little town, see, where normal ordinary people go about their normal ordinary lives. The townspeople worry about things like their increasingly crazy family members and those crazy new folks who aren't very respectful of the town's ways.

There are also those isolated orphan twins, Lily and Owen, who are disturbingly too close to each other, what's up with them? And there's that one guy who just came into town: that guy Pev, Peverel Othman.

He's dangerously hot and dangerously dangerous, and everyone wants a piece of him. Except Owen, who can detect that something, somewhere, is just Not Right. This is a town with secrets. And Pev's a guy with even more secrets. Add them together and you get awesome. Plus fallen angels. And, naturally, since this is Storm Constantine, sex magic. I rolled around in it up like a kitten in catmint, my friend, and I consider myself richer for having had the experience. Also, I know I'm going to sound like one of those unimaginative book-blurbists here, but the plotting was masterful.

There are huge mysteries lurking underneath everything, like big whales coasting along under the sea. With the precise timing of a sea goddess, Storm Constantine waits until the most propitious instant -- building tension to fever pitch -- and then she waves an arm and up those whales go, breaching through the leaden sea-surface with rainbow-colored droplets spraying outwards from their flanks! Okay, so maybe I'm taking this metaphor way too far, but seriously, this book is full of awe-inspiring photo-moments.

Like I've mentioned before, the Big Reveal was very predictable for me, because who else would Pev ultimately turn out to be? My kid sister could have figured it out from page one, on the very off chance I'd ever share a book involving orgies with her. That said, though, the execution was perfect and I couldn't think of anyone who could have played it out better.

Storm Constantine's characterization shines here too. I couldn't help but love each POV character, despite being convinced -- by the exquisite plot development -- that at least one of them would die a creatively grisly death around the end. The narrators are human and not always reliable, and even the most snotty and unlikable of them can't help but inspire a kind of sympathy. I certainly wouldn't like these people for neighbors, but I can see where they're coming from and often find myself emotionally involved with them which I always stopped whenever I caught myself doing it while reading, since, hello, creatively grisly death for this character, no future there.

I also have to add that I was surprised by who actually does die, so points for that. So long and short of it, I have absolutely no complaints about STP.

I consider it one of my all-time favorite books, and it will always have a special place in my heart next to Tanith Lee's Flat Earth , Constantine's own Wraeththu series, and my left lung.

Remember how I said that the iceberg-ish magic always informs but never overwhelms the story in STP? Well, in the later books it sort of does. And by sort of, I mean really. I mean, intellectually, I know there was some sort of power struggle in Book 2, with all sorts of factions fighting over who gets to control their reborn god-equivalent Shemyaza. And there was some sort of going-back-to-Eden quest in Book 3, where Shemyaza outmaneuvers assassins and Babel-building tyrants in order to bring mankind to a new stage of spiritual enlightenment.

But the nail-biting suspense? The teasing revelations? The bringing up of magnificent whales from the dark of the sea? I don't have anything against alternative beliefs, but I like my stories to focus on story or character. Too many scenes of people having mystical vision-journeys, talking metaphysics, and recounting plot points we already know? Well, it doesn't go over well with me. It doesn't. We get glimpses once in a while, but on the whole, they end up completely set aside in favor of new characters who spring up in Book 2 only to vanish tracelessly in Book 3.

Don't get me wrong, Storm Constantine still has that magic touch with characters and sympathy. But my sympathy was decidedly mucked up by the fact that the characters I really liked and had a history with were more or less edged out of the plot or reduced to cameos. For example, we're always told how Lily and Owen are important to Shemyaza, right? But they're decidedly not pivotal to the plot in Book 2, and Owen was just mentioned a couple of times in Book 3.

It's times like these when I start muttering for character sheets and trilogy outlines. Call me shallow, but if a body of work is a series and follows a certain Grand Narrative, I expect a certain degree of tightness.

I expect the development of earlier plotlines, not the constant insertion of new ones. I expect at least an on-screen resolution for the characters I started out with.

To summarize. Read Stalking Tender Prey. When the mysterious stranger, Peverel Othman, arrives in Little Moor, their lives are destined to be changed for ever, and ancient secrets are unearthed in the High Place in the forest and the haunted towers of the shuttered and deserted mansion, Long Eden.

Among the upper echelons of Grigori society, the search begins for an Anakim — a rogue Grigori whose existence threatens the security of his race and the lives of those who cross his path.

Aninka Prussoe, whose own life has been shattered by contact with the Anakim, is among those who are led towards Little Moor and the final climax to a story that never ended and which has haunted both humanity and Grigori alike for millennia. Apple Books Preview. Publisher Description. More Books by Storm Constantine. Crown of Silence. Sea Dragon Heir.