Speaking of racism, a warning to readers that this contains a lot of racially charged language. Sour Billy Tipton is a former Overseer who has become Julian’s assistant, acquiring victims for his appetite and being a disgusting racist to boot. He is a thoroughly despicable character, reminiscent of Roose Bolton and Tywin Lannister, but exceeded by his human servant’s depravity. He’s murdered most of his slaves, sold off the better portion of the land, and now regularly buys sex slaves to feed his rapacious coven.
This being set before Dracula or Carmilla, Abner finds this mostly just a wealthy man’s eccentricity.Īt the bottom of the South near New Orleans, a vampire named Damon Julian, is living in a ruin of a plantation. Furthermore, they are to never bother him during the day or question his activities onboard. The man, Joshua York, has only the conditions that it will occasionally divert from its preordained paths to carry out his personal business.
The premise is a financially insolvent steamboat captain, Abner Marsh, is approached by a wealthy businessman with a too-good-to-be-true offer to build the world’s most luxurious steamboat. Even my jam is the fact is the fact this is a vampire novel, as mentioned above, and one of the most well-written ones I’ve ever had the privilege of enjoying. I note this is already my jam since steamboat replicas remain a curiosity still plying the rivers outside my hometown. While not as influential as Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, which coincidentally share a location, it is certainly a fantastic book.įevre Dream is a novel set in the pre-Civil War era of the American South, specifically on the various rivers plied by steamboats before railroads and later motor cars made them obsolete. It is a Southern Gothic vampire novel published in 1982 and is arguably a new modern classic. Martin has other equally worthy works and perhaps the best of them, in my opinion at least, is Fevre Dream. After all, the subgenre as we know it today may not have been invented by A Song of Ice and Fire, but it certainly owes a great debt to it for popularizing the literary movement. Martin needs no introduction to fans of grimdark.
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