Took me a while...two muses fighting over a young Poe...very dark and depressing. One thing I enjoyed were the bits of his poetry and short stories sprinkled through out the story. ( )

This was a free summer audio sync book from 2021 and is a fantasy/historical novelization of Edgar Allan Poe. The fantasy part is the "muse" that helps creative people be creative. This book explores the questions that exist around Poe's life and death. Is was okay, not hard to read in anyway and I learned a bit about Poe.

Narrators: Michael Crouch, Nicole Wood. The various voices of Poe, his muse, and others.

I appreciated the research that the author put into the work. ( )

I just started reading this without having any idea what it was really about and I was clueless of what was going on for awhile. The story follows Edgar Allen Poe's real life around his late adolescence and early adulthood. The author added the real characters, places and events from his life. So this story is somewhat biographical but a fantasy at the same time. Poe's muse is gothic creature trying to help him find his true self as a poet while is adopted father is trying to do anything to keep him from it. Some poetry is woven in the story. The author does a great job of giving that Poe feeling. I enjoyed this. ( )

audiobook (great job done by Michael Crouch and Nicole Wood) - "Eddie" Allen Poe's life as a young adult, reimagined with a gothic muse who comes to life, simultaneously haunting and inspiring him.

2 stars for a relatively dull story (sorry Poe, I just don't find you that interesting), but adding a half star for the excellent narration and production.
This isn't a book I'd ever pick up on my own (and I can't imagine any random teens picking it up either except for extreme EAP fans), but it was offered free by audiosync (summer 2021) and I do like Michael Crouch, so I checked it out. ( )

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family - the wealthy Allans of Richmond, Virginia. He hungers for his upcoming life as a student at the prestigious new university, almost as much as he longs to marry his beloved Elmira Royster. However, on the brink of his departure, all his plans go awry when a macabre Muse named Lenore appears to him. Muses are frightful creatures that lead Artists down a path of ruin and disgrace, and no respectable person could possibly understand or accept them. But Lenore steps out of the shadows with one request: "Let them see me!"