The Taker

[An] imaginative and wholly original debut... Readers won't be able to tear their eyes away from Katsu's mesmerizing tale

Booklist

I couldn’t put it down… a fantastic debut novel for Alma Katsu and I am looking forward to her sequel The Reckoning

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The Taker is a frighteningly compelling story about those most human monsters--desire and obsession. It will curl your hair and keep you up late at night

Keith Donohue, author of Stolen Child

Alma Katsu takes the reader by surprise in the first chapter of her mesmerizing debut and never stops delivering. What a wonderful book! A dark, gothic, epic worth savoring. A sweeping story that transcends time as it moves effortless from the tempestuous past to the frightening present. Enchanting and enthralling! No question - I was taken!

International Bestseller, M.J. Rose

Alma Katsu's searing tale of otherworldly lovers and eternal obsession will seduce you from page one. With its elegant prose and riveting plot, The Taker is as irresistible as the hauntingly beautiful, pleasure-seeking immortals who scorch its pages. A wicked, sensuous, shattering love story that I can't recommend enough. You have to experience it for yourself!

Kresley Cole, New York Times bestselling author

An historical novel with a difference, this is a strange but compelling read

Choice

Dark and super sexy

Cosmopolitan

Katsu's mesmerizing, original debut arcs between a Puritan community and a present-day young woman found in the Maine woods who claims that she has killed a man and that she's immortal.

Booklist

Spookily captivating

Marie Claire

This is a great book. And by great, I mean, devastatingly so, like reading The Scarlett Letter, while riding a roller coaster, on acid. Seductive, daring, soaring, and ultimately gut-wrenching, The Taker is a lush, historical rendering of transcendent love, paranormal beings, and the depths of pain that can be felt by immortal hearts

Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet