Day Boy, Trent Jamieson
Day Boy, Trent Jamieson
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Day Boy

Author: Trent Jamieson

Narrator: Adam Fitzgerald

Unabridged: 8 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/24/2023


Synopsis

They worship the Sun: the only god as cruel as they are.

The Masters, dreadful and severe, rule the Red City and the lands far beyond it. By night, they politic and feast, drinking from townsfolk resigned to their fates. By day, the Masters must rely on their human servants, their Day Boys, to fulfill their every need and carry out their will.

Mark is a Day Boy, practically raised by his Master, Dain. It’s grueling, often dangerous work, but Mark neither knows nor wants any other life. And, if a Day Boy proves himself worthy, the nightmarish, all-seeing Council of Teeth may choose to offer him a rare gift: the opportunity to forsake his
humanity for monstrous power and near-immortality, like the Masters transformed before him.

But in the crackling heat of the Red City, widespread discontent among his fellow humans threatens to fracture Mark's allegiances. As manhood draws near, so too does the end of Mark's tenure as a Day Boy, and he cannot stay suspended between the worlds of man and Master for much longer.

With brilliantly evocative, hypnotic prose, Trent Jamieson crafts a fang-sharp and surprisingly tender coming-of-age story about a headstrong boy—and the monster who taught him to be a man.

About Trent Jamieson

Trent Jamieson is an Australian Fantasy writer, and winner of two Aurealis Awards, whose Death Most Definite series is being published by Orbit and is already attracting rave notices. He works as a teacher, a bookseller and a writer and has taught at Clarion South where he was described as “the nicest guy in Australian Spec Fic” shattering the reputation he was trying to build as the “Hard Man of the Australian Writing Community”. Trent’s latest creation takes us to a dying land of decaying clockwork technology that is being devoured by a great rift in reality, the Roil.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristin on August 10, 2022

4 stars. I enjoyed this one, and other vampire lovers will as well. Thank you to the publisher an NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Mark is a Day boy, a bit taken by a young age to serve a Vampiric master. His duties are many, including tending to the townsfolk after his master has fed upon......more

Goodreads review by Jason on August 07, 2015

5 Stars Day Boy by Trent Jamieson deserves full marks from me simply due to the fact that this book made me rekindle some of my old love for the Vampire genre. I was already a fan of Jamieson as I love his Death Works trilogy but I am now cemented in as a full-time fan and will read anything he puts......more