Anthony’s partner and an ever positive force in the found family they make up, he is also Eleanor’s creator and harbors a strong sense of guilt and sadness over what she had become upon our introduction to the character. Sorel : A jovial and positive man, he helps teach Gilda the ways of the vampires. She’s continuously wandering the world as a way to discover other indigenous groups and help them when she can, exploring her own identity as she travels and never happy in one place. She is destined to wander, “never truly happy until she had picked another destination” as Gilda describes her.
The real dream is to make a world–to see the people and still want to make a world.” (44)īird : The Other’s lover, she is of Lakota origin and the teacher and parental figure of Gilda (although their relationship is far more complicated than that). “My dream was to see the world, over time. How long she has lived is unknown although she states that it has been many hundreds of years and she only has vague memories of her life before becoming undead. The Other (Original Gilda) : Very caring of those around her, she is the founder of Woodard’s, Bird’s lover and Gilda’s vampiric creator. She loves and treasures humanity, cultivating it through the meaningful relationships she builds and the arts she practices and ultimately struggles with herself and how to form long lasting bonds other than those formed with Sorel and Anthony and is the protagonist of this novel.
This is Gomez's first novel she is a poet and the author of Flamingoes and Bears.Gilda : Ever fascinated and dependent on the concept of humanity and where she fits in, she is an observer more than anything else. Gomez provides an unusual twist to the erotic vampire novel, introducing issues of race and sexual preference, but there is no attempt to address these issues except as fodder for an ultimately uninteresting romance novel. Subsequent lives take Gilda to California in 1890, Missouri in 1921, Massachusetts in 1955, New York in 1981 where she does a stint as a cabaret singer, and into the future in New Hampshire in 2020 and up to the year 2050. Rescued and adopted by Gilda, a vampire who runs a brothel, she soon becomes a vampire herself and adopts Gilda's name. In her first life, she is a runaway slave in Louisiana in 1850, not yet a vampire, not yet named, who stabs a rapist/bounty hunter in self-defense. Throughout her lives, Gilda is a woman of African descent with strong feminist traits and a sense of loyalty to her friends and family, both mortal and immortal. The central character of this multiracial, feminist, lesbian vampire romance fantasy travels through time and leads multiple lives.
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