{"id":4953,"date":"2020-08-16T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2020-08-16T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:11:41","slug":"the-man-who-married-death-by-amy-langevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Married Death by Amy Langevin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gloriously dark\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Langevin\u2019s engrossing narrative poetry captures its depressive protagonist\u2019s tortured reckoning with Death. Langevin uses the supernatural to take the reader through twenty-eight-year-old Zylen LaRocque\u2019s descent into insanity as he pines for the fathomless love of Death. The darkness seeps into the narrative in the very beginning: In \u201cDeath\u2019s Affair\u201d Langevin writes\u201d \u201cI\u2019m whirling her around by her neck,\/ Smashing her legs into the sheet of rock rising behind the waterfall\/ Until they spew blood, their bones crack and pierce flesh\u201d. \u201cInsomnia\u201d conveys the protagonist\u2019s own personal hell. Langevin explores despondency as the ultimate manifestation of beauty in \u201cLucritia,\u201d \u201cNiobe,\u201d and \u201cLilah\u201d. The use of blank verse to recount the protagonist\u2019s plunge into a whirlwind of killing and mania adds to the intrigue. Themes of graphic violence, bloodshed, rape, and suicide mark this unsuitable for the faint of heart. Lanevin\u2019s vision of a maniac killer\u2019s journey through a frenzy of serial killings makes this a treat for lovers of blood and gore.<\/p>\n

Note: This title is free on Kindle Unlimited.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Man Who Married Death<\/h2>\n

By Amy Langevin<\/h3>\n

Buy now<\/a><\/h4>\n

Pub date October 26, 2017<\/h4>\n

ISBN 978-1973128755<\/h4>\n

Price $8.00 (USD) Paperback, $2.99 Kindle edition<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gloriously dark\u2026 Langevin\u2019s engrossing narrative poetry captures its depressive protagonist\u2019s tortured reckoning with Death. Langevin uses the supernatural to take the reader through twenty-eight-year-old Zylen LaRocque\u2019s descent into insanity as he pines for the fathomless love of Death. The darkness seeps into the narrative in the very beginning: In \u201cDeath\u2019s Affair\u201d Langevin writes\u201d \u201cI\u2019m whirling her around by her neck,\/ Smashing her legs into the sheet of rock rising behind the waterfall\/ Until they spew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book Review Website\n\nBook review: The Man Who Married Death by Amy Langevin #themanwhomarried death #amylangevin #poetry #books #indieauthor #darkfiction #selfpub #selfpublihsed #poetrybooks #poetrycollection","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56739],"tags":[7223,726,91,178,847828,1136176,610903656,54306025,1868,422,531468,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-reviews","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-dark-fiction","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indieauthor","tag-philosophy","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-collection","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-1hT","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}