Anaxagoras and D’Artagnan say:

The Red Winter by Australian author Cameron Sullivan is genre defying and honestly a nightmare to summarise. Part historical fiction and part horror fantasy with a heartbreaking and tender love story woven throughout, the protagonist is sickeningly likeable despite his many bad deeds. The constant footnotes are used to see inside his quippy thoughts and add doses of history and humour. You’ll love the supporting characters for their depravity and you’ll be wondering if this entirely unreal tale could maybe kind of be real somehow? You’ll be thinking about this one long after you turn the final page.

Synopsis:

A devastating love story.
A bewitching twist on history.
A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption.

In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake.

Sebastian knows the Beast. Twenty years ago, it nearly cost him his life to bring the monster down. Now, he has been recalled to the hunt by Antoine Avenel d'Ocerne, an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian. With the help of his indwelling demon, Sarmodel - who takes payment in living hearts - Sebastian must return to Gévaudan for a final reckoning, while the Beast is poised to plunge the continent into war.

In this dark retelling of the hunt for the Beast of Gévaudan, Cameron Sullivan tears the heart out of history. He lifts the veil on the hidden world behind our own and reimagines the story of Europe, from Imperial Rome to Saint Jehanne d'Arc and the first flickers of the French Revolution.

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