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by: Lynn Cesar  List Price: $7.99 Amazon.com's Price: $5.69 You Save: $2.30 (29%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Format: Kindle Book Label: Juno Books Manufacturer: Juno Books Publication Date: July 16, 2008 Publisher: Juno Books Studio: Juno Books Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. "Earth's eldest god, resurgent, makes war on humankind and a mayan wizardess awakens a woman and a man to passion and to combat. Lynn Cesar's writing is wild witchery!"--World Fantasy Award-winning Author Michael Shea "APRICOT BRANDY is an exciting combination of horror and dark urban fantasy that takes readers to the edge of sanity and leaves them there wondering if this time evil will triumph. Karen may be innocent, but she is the catalyst (thanks to her DNA) that sets things in motion--even though she is the polar opposite of her cruel father. She reaches inside herself to find the determination to defy him and his god while the Mayan witch [Quetzal] rallies her ghostly horde and the townsfolk. Readers will find Lynn Cesar's work magically entertaining."--Alternative Worlds Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Poetic, but fails to deliverThe novel has a promising start, and appears to be a good display of Cesar's writing talents, but overuse of similes and metaphors that are often hard to imagine, as well as a complete lack of story focus, lead to an annoying climax. Cesar drifts from her main character half-way through the book, focusing on other characters' viewpoints that would have been better left out. The main character fails to participate at all in the climax of the story, leaving a very empty space behind her. ... Read More Rating: - Different but awkwardThis 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 ... Read More Rating:  - Apricot Brandy -- A WinnerLynn 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 ... Read More Rating: - Words can't describe it, BUY THIS BOOK!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 ... Read More Rating: - APRICOT BRANDY is an exciting combination horror and dark urban fantasy Decades have passed since Karen Fox returned to her family's farm; twenty years since she walked out on the man who was supposed to protect her, but instead sexually assaulted her. Now her father is dead having blown away his face with a self inflicted shotgun blast; Karen has come home to make special arrangements for the land and her father's cremation. She is unaware that her father was the High Priest for the Green God Xibalba and his acolytes drop his corpse into a fissure beneath the morgue. ... Read More 
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