Karen Fox returns to the family homestead after her father's suicide and discovers it has become the locus of a malignant Mayan plant demon. She must battle the demon and its adherents with the help of Kyle, an ex-con, and Quetzal, a magic-wielding Guatemalan bruja. Quetzal raises an army of the ghosts of women who have been sacrificed - but if they cannot win the battle, their souls will be forfeit.
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Apricot Brandy -- A Winner,
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Lynn Cesar begins by lulling her readers with sweet bleakness: a roving young woman, orphaned by suicide and maternal tragedy, returns to her rural home in search of closure. Then she makes the mistake of guzzling her abusive dad's magical homemade booze (the book's title), and compounds the blunder by checking her basement for pods (the old fashioned kind, not i). Soon she's flailing in a Mayan hell, where plants and homicidal corpses riot.
Imagine corrupt cops conspiring with onyx-eyed Mayan gods and dead fathers... and a witch. Stay far away from the sheriffs, the medical examiner and the ex-cons. Lynn Cesar is a top-drawer spell-caster of rural and Central American horror and hypnoguery. You'll never again pass complacently by a greenhouse or nursery -- to say nothing of measuring radon under your floorboards -- once you've read A.B. I couldn't put it down! By Dan Temianka, author of "The Jack Vance Lexicon"
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Words can't describe it, BUY THIS BOOK!,
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There is a breed of fantasy that rises above and beyond the mundane, that breaks through the often tired repetativeness speckling the bookstore. At times, these brilliantly poignant reeds are lost in the mucky ebb of so many stories. By chance this book was given to me by a friend, and from the moment I opened the first page, I couldnt put it down. Apricot Brandy has a style that is both pure and haunting, it is beautifully written and wrought with inexplicable emotion. Lynn Cesar has earned a high place on my bedstand bookshelf for as long as she keeps writing.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Different but awkward,
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This book was written in an interesting style with great descriptions of Karen Fox's return to the house of her childhood after the death of her father. As she wanders around the house, visiting her father's fruit trees from which he made his famous apricot brandy, she finds herself being drawn into a strange evil. When her lover Susan arrives to visit the evil gets more teeth and things start getting harder for Karen. Interspersed with this story is that of two other local people, the sheriff and the medical examiner, who are trying to bring back to life an ancient god, Xibalba. As Karen tries to come to terms with her difficult past in her father's house, samples his homemade brew and finds herself allied with an ex-con, a Guatemalan witch and and army of ghosts, the story moves on in unexpected directions.
Cesar's writing is beautifully crafted and the characters and situations are definitely different from the norm. However I found this book extremely difficult to get into, I didn't find myself that interested in what would happen next, and I found it hard to relate to any of the characters. It took me a considerable while to read as I couldn't really engage with it and for that reason I have awarded it only two stars. It's a very different sort of fantasy which will appeal to some readers but it's not an easy read. Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
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