Myrnin's Tale is a short story in The Morganville Vampires Series by Rachel Caine. Myrnin is my favourite character in this series. I love the handsome, eccentric, wacky, mad scientist with the occasional need to eat his assistants. This short story is Myrnin's story and told from his point of view. It is far too short for the great mind of Myrnin. In this short story, we learn that Myrnin's father was mad and his mother was abusive, cruel, and neglectful. She sold Myrnin to a vampire to work as his apprentice in alchemy, wizardry, and science. The Story ends there. Myrnin's Tale is a sad, overwhelming and unusual story written in the point of view of Claire Danvers's mad boss, Myrnin. It's a short story about The Morganville Vampires series and illustrates the events of Myrnin as a child.Myrnin, from the Morganville Vampires is known to be an old, ancient figure but with a young appearance. He is one of the oldest vampires who live in Morganville and is known to have mad phases that consequence his personality completely changing at times. Sometimes these phases lead him to forget people around him and how vulnerable some of his friend are in contrast with him.Myrnin Tale tells the story of Myrnin's life, as a child, was and describes the relationships between him and his family. The relationships are shocking, one of them really sad but i don't want to include any spoilers! Ride along and find out how Myrnin was exploited as an apprentice to an unusual master with a hidden secret.Rachel Caine has again told a compelling tale, using immense detail to include the reader in the story. She includes heavy descriptions with descriptive language, describing scenes with effect making you aware of the surroundings and the scenes of the story the characters go through. The story contains many emotions such as sadness, empathy, shock, excitement, confusion and many more. It's a totally different story to other ones she has wrote and helps you understand Myrnin's character displayed in 'Morganville Vampires'. It includes new ideas which are very common in Rachel Caine's writing, which makes her stories so good to read! She has written in an elegant way which indulges you in the story's secrets and events feeding you information that you never knew before! The language used is swifft with a nice flick of excitement and exotic, hidden twists.It's a beautiful, pleasing and enticing story including tenderness and admiration towards Myrnin and gives you a chance to see the world through Myrnin's eyes. A magnificent story with a slow-pace that enables you to feel, live and re-live moments of Myrnin's past.I recommend this story to readers who have read the Morganville Vampires as then you have more understanding with his character. For other readers, i strongly recommend reading the original books before reading this short story.Leave your comments below and if you have read or intend to read it, leave a review so i can see how other people view this story :)
What do You think about Myrnin's Tale (2000)?
I love Myrnin, and the chance to read ANYTHING about him.... Thank you Rachel Caine.
—EfectoNocebo
I LOVE this character!! When is this short coming out??
—Zachary954
Would like to read more about myrinin. :)
—Annie_Vo
