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Summary: a must read series.
Review: I started this series about a month ago and am getting ready to read the 5th book. I'm glad that I stumbled onto her at the book store. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have!
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Summary: interesting
Review: I thought the first three books in this series were great and this fourth was excellent! The relationships between Vicki, Henry, and Celluci have developed nicely and some parts of the book actually had me holding onto my seat, I was so tense waiting to see what would happen next. I can't read wait to read book #5, but unfortunately that will mean the series end. Guess I'll have to read the other Tanya Huff books, hey, good idea.
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Summary: Creepy with a capital creep...
Review: I thought the first three books in this series were great and this fourth was excellent! The relationships between Vicki, Henry, and Celluci have developed nicely and some parts of the book actually had me holding onto my seat, I was so tense waiting to see what would happen next. I can't read wait to read book #5, but unfortunately that will mean the series end. Guess I'll have to read the other Tanya Huff books, hey, good idea.
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Summary: interesting
Review: I've been facinated with this series. The characters are definitely interesting, although, I care very little for the the main character, Vicki. Vicki has a horrible temper and I can't imagine why two attractive men would be so taken with her. The story plot is good even if the main character is so unlikable.
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Summary: I loved it.
Review: I, too, have read the first three in the series. I was a little disappointed with the third one, Blood Lines, so it took me awhile to get around to Blood Pact. When I did, I couldn't put it down. The interaction between Vicki, Henry and Mike becomes much deeper than it has been -- Vicky is in a state (in her own unconventional way) over her mother's death and disappearance, and the guys, in being there for her, have to reluctantly develop a relationship. The ending was a little unsatisfactory: I wanted to know more about what Vicki was doing in her changed circumstances. All in all, though,I found it really engrossing and am going to have to go out tomorrow and buy Blood Debt!
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Summary: I loved it.
Review: I, too, have read the first three in the series. I was a little disappointed with the third one, Blood Lines, so it took me awhile to get around to Blood Pact. When I did, I couldn't put it down. The interaction between Vicki, Henry and Mike becomes much deeper than it has been -- Vicky is in a state (in her own unconventional way) over her mother's death and disappearance, and the guys, in being there for her, have to reluctantly develop a relationship. The ending was a little unsatisfactory: I wanted to know more about what Vicki was doing in her changed circumstances. All in all, though,I found it really engrossing and am going to have to go out tomorrow and buy Blood Debt!
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Summary: Not the best of the series
Review: It's interesting to compare Tanya Huff and Laurell Hamilton--Hamilton's Anita Blake series has a shaky start but picks up steam as she begins to develop her characters. Huff's Vicky Nelson series, on the other hand, seems to become more strained as it goes. For me the best one of the series was #2, Blood Trail, which has a wonderful portrait of "werewolf culture." Blood Pact is much more mechanical, and the character of Vicky seems to be particularly abrasive here, even given the fact that she's grieving for her mother (explain to me why this woman is so fascinating that she has not one but two lovers waiting on her every whim). The shock ending has an air of desperation, as if Huff's trying to give the book a kind of last minute punch. I wouldn't start reading Huff with this one. Start with Blood Price (the first) and see how you like the characters.
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Summary: Surprise Ending
Review: Just finished this book. I liked the first three, and this fourth one, I liked as well... but maybe not as much. In Blood Trail and Blood Lines, I thought the mystery was a little too simple and too easily solved, although I did enjoy them. This book was definitely not a simple and easy read. The whole story was complicated, and the continuing triangle with Vicki, Henry and Mike added even more complications. The ending was definitely a surprise. I didn't see it coming at all, and for some reason I'm disappointed in what happened. Partly because I wanted to see the whole love triangle resolved in another way, but more so because it just changes too much. But I am looking forward to the fifth and final book of the series to see what happens next.
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Summary: Vicki at Bay
Review: One of the most unique things about Tanya Huff's vampire tales is that they are never really vampire tales. Of course, Henry Fitzroy, one of the investigators, is a vampire, but the villains never are. Demons, mummies, and spectacularly deficient humans, but no bad guys with pointy teeth. One has to admire an author who consistently comes up with monsters that make vampires seem tepid."Blood Pact" opens with Vicki Nelson's worst nightmare. Angry with both Henry and Mike (the other member of their 'love' triangle) she ignores several phone calls from her mother. Suddenly the worst happens, Vicki receives a call from Queen's University where her mother worked. Mrs. Nelson has collapsed at her office, dead of a heart defect. Vicki leaves Toronto for Kingston, full of bitter self-recrimination and at her wits end. Fortunately, both Henry and Mike realize Vicki's state and follow her to Kingston, both determined to help her, and equally determined not to get along. For Vicki the real nightmare starts when she discovers that her mother's body has disappeared from the funeral parlor. Not trusting the Kingston police to give this mystery their full attention, Vicki, driven by her guilt, along with Celluci and Fitzroy, begin their investigation. Stymied by a lack of clues and compulsive driven to keep searching, Vicki comes close to a nervous breakdown. Then, one night, she is disturbed by noises at her window. Outside she sees her mother's face, dead, but somehow horribly alive. Thus begins a mind boggling tale which is more of a medical thriller than an occult mystery story. Driven by greed and growing insanity scientists are experimenting with bacteriological resurrection. Mrs. Nelson is the latest in a series of victims. What follows is a grim hunt for the perpetrators, one that tests every bit of strength that Vicki has. In the meantime one of the creatures discovers a fondness for killing people that disturb its peace of mind. This story is more serious than previous tales of Vicki Nelson, and raises some interesting moral and ethical issues in the context of dealing with the would be Frankensteins and their modern zombies. The cast is small, but intensely drawn. Henry and Mike gain extra depth as they put aside their differences in an effort to keep Vicki from total self-destruction. The scientific and psychological counterpoint is quite a change of pace from Huff's previous novels in this series. While not the best book of the series to start out with, it is certainly an enjoyable read for a regular fan.
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Summary: Creepier and an unexpected ending
Review: The characters get into full form and the plot is inticing. I'd never have seen the finale coming.
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