Motherless Child

Name: Motherless Child
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Glen Hirshberg
ISBN: 9781629234717

Author: Glen Hirshberg

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 6 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 05/27/2014

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

It's the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the mysterious musician known only as 'the Whistler.' Morning finds them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded and their memories hazy. Things soon become horrifyingly clear: the Whistler is a vampire and Natalie and Sophie are his latest victims. The young women leave their babies with Natalie's mother and hit the road, determined not to give in to their unnatural desires. Hunger and desire make a powerful couple. So do the Whistler and his Mother, who are searching for Sophie and Natalie with the help of Twitter and the musician's many fans. The violent, emotionally moving showdown will leave readers gasping in fear and delight.

About Glen Hirshberg

Glen Hirshberg has won the Shirley Jackson Award and several International Horror Guild Awards; he is a multiple finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Hirshberg lives in the Los Angeles area with his family. His first novel, The Snowman's Children, was a Literary Guild Featured Selection. His collection, The Two Sams, won three International Horror Guild Awards and was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. He teaches high school English and creative writing.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frankie on May 27, 2017

I'm really bored with vampires. I was sure I could never take another one. Leave it to Glen Hirshberg to create characters that yank me right in from the get-go. The vampires here are no reluctant vampires found in nearly every book - even George R.R. Martin's excellent Fevre Dream has a requisite "......more

Goodreads review by Xe on April 19, 2014

Wow. Just...um. When it started, it felt a bit like being lost in fog - but then again, the characters are lost in a fog so it was an authentic experience, in retrospect. About the halfway mark, I couldn't have put it down if I had wanted to (which I didn't). Now...well, now to figure out how to voi......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on May 24, 2015

Bad girl Natalie doesn’t immediately realize that her wild night with pop singer The Whistler and best friend Sophie has done her damage forever . That’s really forever rather than a lifetime; she has been turned into a vampire. The Whistler hopes to make Natalie his eternal companion. As he sees it......more

Goodreads review by Elke on February 23, 2017

Being tempted by the praising reviews I had great expectations about this book, and was disappointed to find that I could not relate to it as much as I would have liked. The greatest problem I had to face was the writing. The author uses very short sentences and most of the time you have to guess th......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 26, 2014

I kind of went into this one with some skepticism, mainly because at this point I'm about as dubious about vampire novels that claim they're for people who don't like vampire novels as I am of vampire novels in the first place, but Hirshberg earns the tag. Mainly by writing like a motherfucker. His......more