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    Feast: Harvest of Dreams

    By Merrie Destefano

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    “Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy…breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead.”
    —Tosca Lee, author of Havah and Demon: A Memoir

    “Merrie Destefano has made a fine start on a promising career.”
    —James Gunn, science fiction Grand Master

    With her brilliant debut novel, Afterlife, author Merrie Destefano earned herself a place of honor at the banquet table alongside today’s top authors of sf and urban fantasy. With Feast, she serves up another heaping helping of thrills, shivers, wonder, and glorious invention while spicing up the recipe with dark romance in the bestselling vein of C.L Wilson, Marjorie M. Liu, and other paranormal superstars. A spellbinding fantasy of supernatural intrigue and forbidden love, Feast blends vampire and fairy lore, with the resulting dish offering a sumptuous new take on both, as a troubled storyteller returns home to the mysterious autumn woods just prior to Halloween, to find her life and her soul captivated by a cursed immortal, the Lord of the Hunt.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 28, 2011
    ISBN9780062092298
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    Feast: Harvest of Dreams
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    Merrie Destefano

    Merrie Destefano left a 9-to-5 desk job as a magazine editor to become a full-time novelist and freelance editor. With twenty years' experience in publishing, her background includes editor of Victorian Homes magazine and founding editor of Cottages & Bungalows magazine. She lives in Southern California with her husband, their two German shepherds, and a Siamese cat.

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      Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Harper Voyager; Original edition (June 28, 2011) My Rating: 3.5 starsGenre: Paranormal Fantasy**Review** Feast: Harvest of Dreams is the story, mainly, about Maddie McFadden who is a successful screen writer and graphic novelist who has been compared to Steven King and Neil Gaiman. Maddie, her son Tucker, and wolfhound named Samwise, return to Ticonderoga Falls twenty-five years after she spent the summers there with her parents. She is trying to find a way to release her writers’ block that has been nagging her since her divorce to her cheating asshat spouse. She figures Ticonderoga with its mysteries abound, will break the block once and for-all.Maddie remembers bits and pieces of her past, but nothing concrete. She does remember a kindly man named Ash, who she gets reacquainted with soon after arriving in town. She vaguely remembers creatures with dark skin and broad wings, shifting from one shape to the next. She actually thought it was all a dream, but now that she is back in town, she believes that it might have been real. What she doesn’t realize is that by being back in town, she has put herself into harm’s way from beings that she can only dream and write about.Our main male protag is Ash. Ash is a Darkling, and the guardian of Ticonderoga Falls. What is a guardian you ask, and lots of you have? He is responsible for not allowing renegade Darklings to feast on the dreams of the residents humans without his permission. Ash has been cursed to remain in this town after his wife was Lily was murdered by one of its residents. In a fit of rate, he not only cursed the family responsible, but he also cursed himself into remaining in town for as long as the curse remains in place.Ash remembers Maddie when his cousin tried to steal her away from him, and has vowed to protect her, or feast on her dreams all by himself. And, my does she have some nice dreams to feast upon! He also realizes that he is slowly falling into a funk that could harm the residents of the town, and cause him to become a Hauntings – a spirit that stays in one place too long, with bad intentions towards those around him. He still pines for the wife that he believes he allowed to be killed, while taking up with another and having Elsbeth who is part darkling and part human. There have been quite a few questions put out about this story like what are Darklings? What is Feasting actually? And, what exactly does a Guardian do? You as the reader must answer them yourself after reading the book. Not paying attention to rumors or innuendos or even reviewers which includes mine. Truly pay attention to the characters in the book and read what Feasting actually means. Does it mean that the Darklings are in fact Vampires as others have stated? Don't allow yourself to get confused by the change in POV's. Normally I don't care for the abrupt changes in the POV, but with this book, the chapters are actually short enough that it actually works for me.This is a paranormal romance novel as Maddie and Ash discover their attraction to each other, as well as the danger from the Darklings that are supposed to answer to him while they are in town but have their own hidden agendas.Maddie is a really good character, with no discernable flaws that normally come from urban fantasy or PNR novels heroines. Her imagination is what ends up saving the day from the villainous louse who calls himself cousin to Ash. She has the ability to ward off any attempts to steal her dreams which makes her a dangerous weapon.I'm curious as to the release of this book after Afterlife was released as part of a series. This appears to be a standalone release as the story really does wrap itself up. DeStefano could actually continue to a sequel, and I'm sure there would be those interested in what happens next.Recvd ARC via Netgalley.com. Pub Date: 06/28/2011