The Dark Blood Of Poppies (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Definitely the biggest and most ambitious of the series. Of the three though, I'd say it's my least favourite. Doesn't have the simple focus of the first story, or the purity of vision of the second - which is one of my favourite books of all time. But that's by the by really, because it's still fucking wonderful.This is a big book, and there is a hell of a lot going on in it. So much that I did begin to wonder how all of it would come together, and whether or not all of this was really relevant to the over-arching themes of the book. SPOILER-ish: All to do with religion, and the persecution of the 'sacred-feminine' as crafted by the patriarchal driven societies that have shaped the world through the ages. As well as the coming together of the masculine and the feminine in pursuit of the 'self'. All that good shit. But it does all come together, in a glorious fusion of sex, violence, and enlightenment. Like I said, it's the most ambitious of the three. Now just gotta hold out for the release of The Dark Arts of Blood, and hope that it keeps up the trend.
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