tehee i could go on and on about that book. just stumbled across this website today and already found something I adore :D umm....do you guys need a book sypnosis? here, I just wrote one, cuz I'm a bit obsessive hehe :P
The story starts off as Cain, our protagonist, is having a flashback. Cain’s father, a doctor with revoked liscenes, once experimented with a syrum which could make a person live forever and made his entire family immortal exept for Cain, who refused. Cain is not aloud to have any contact with the outside world, but falls in love with a beautiful gypsy named Catherine. Although the Caldwell family disowns Cain for preposing, Cain and Catherine decide to get married on Christmas morning. On Christmas eve, Cain and Catherine are riding in a carriage during a winter storm. The driver loses control and the carriage flips over into a ravine. The driver is killed, and Cain, with the carriage on top of his lower half, has his left leg entirely crushed and is left with a severe limp , forced to use a cane, which is revealed later. Cain is captured by his father and for the sake of betraying his family, is given the immortal-syrum against his wishes, putting him in extreme pain. Meanwhile Catherine is chained to the wall and is forced to watch Cain be badly beaten ...
tehee i could go on and on about that book. just stumbled across this website today and already found something I adore :D umm....do you guys need a book sypnosis? here, I just wrote one, cuz I'm a bit obsessive hehe :P
The story starts off as Cain, our protagonist, is having a flashback. Cain’s father, a doctor with revoked liscenes, once experimented with a syrum which could make a person live forever and made his entire family immortal exept for Cain, who refused. Cain is not aloud to have any contact with the outside world, but falls in love with a beautiful gypsy named Catherine. Although the Caldwell family disowns Cain for preposing, Cain and Catherine decide to get married on Christmas morning. On Christmas eve, Cain and Catherine are riding in a carriage during a winter storm. The driver loses control and the carriage flips over into a ravine. The driver is killed, and Cain, with the carriage on top of his lower half, has his left leg entirely crushed and is left with a severe limp , forced to use a cane, which is revealed later. Cain is captured by his father and for the sake of betraying his family, is given the immortal-syrum against his wishes, putting him in extreme pain. Meanwhile Catherine is chained to the wall and is forced to watch Cain be badly beaten and flogged while the syrum causes him paralysis. An unknown person continues to torture Cain, and threatens to kill Catherine if he makes any sounds of pain or discomfort. He stays quiet until the person violently twists his left leg, the leg that was crushed, in an awkward manner. The person then shoots Catherine to death, and knocks Cain out with a blunt object.
Cain has these flashbacks often and now, twenty-two, is living alone, is constantly in extreme pain, and utterly suicidal. The syrum’s effects have made Cain so beautiful that he can almost pass for a woman, and he is greatly ashamed of looking so handsome. On his twenty-second birthday Cain ventures out into London, and finds a homeless man living on the streets named Manson DeGraaf. Manson is a lewd, quirky ex-butler who was kicked out of his master’s estate for indecent exposure. As an act of kindness, Cain takes Manson in as his new manservant because he is lonely. Manson, hesitant at first, refuses but later gives in. It is hinted throughout the book that Manson is a **********, but it never states the fact. The two then get in touch with Nero, Manson’s friend who works at a traveling carnival. He is an opera singer, has a strange obsession for marionettes, and designs clothes. We then meet Bacchus, who is a magician and falls into a deep bond with Cane [=
To make a long story short, the rest of the story involves Jack the ripper, vignettes, memento mori, crazy doctors, pudding, dolls, loss-innocence, glitter, icing, hot romance, and a beautiful cripple with a nice taste for orange tea. Just sayin’ :P
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