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It was like a nightmare, but there was no waking up. When the night began, Nora had two best friends and an embarrassingly storybook one true love. When it ended, she had nothing but blood on her hands and an echoing scream that stopped only when the tranquilizers pierced her veins and left... read more
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Characters edit
- Nora: Heroine. A high school student working with Chris and Max for Professor 'Hoff' translating Latin scripts as an extra-curricular. Has a difficult home-life that she keeps to herself.
- Christopher Moore: Nora's best friend and Adriane's boyfriend.
- Adriane: Nora's other best friend, mostly because she is Chris's girlfriend and they have a third wheel thing going on with Nora, but they remain friends throughout the book with or without Chris. Exceptionally pretty and a closet-geek. Moves with a dancer's grace. Her parents are the only people with whom she is meek
- Max Lewis: Chris's college roommate, likes Nora. Quiet and shy but mysterious.
- Eli: Chris's cousin who visits to help Nora clear out Chris' dorm room
- Professor 'Hoff': The Professor with which Nora, Chris and Max are studying the Voymich manuscript for. The 'Hoff' is considered crazy by his colleagues and does little work himself.
Setting & Locations edit
- Paris, France
- Prague
- Chapman Prep: School which Nora and Adriane attend and where Chris has graduated from. Nora has a full academic scholarship based on her Latin abilities.
- Hledael
- Hledan
- Petrarch
- Europe
- New England
- Hledacl
- Vltava
- Graz
- St. Boethius
- Boethia
- Hledacvi
Organizations edit
- Fidei Defenser: Group which works to stop the Hledači from completing the Lumen Dei
- Hledači: Organisation which wishes to reactivate the Lumen Dei to communicate with God
First Sentence edit
I should probably start with the blood.
Table of Contents edit
Part I The Blood-Dimmed Tide
Chapters 1 - 30
Part II The Ceremony of Innocence
Chapters 1 - 26
Part III Master of the Still Stars
Chapters 1 - 40
Part IV Twilights of Dew and Fire
Chapters 1 - 29
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Themes & Symbolism edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robin Wasserman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 10, 2012
ISBN: 0375868763
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Country: USA
Publication Date: April 10, 2012
ISBN: 0375868763
Page Count: 448
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PZ7.W25865Bo
- Dewey: Add the Dewey Classification.
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