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Summary: Children of the night was not one of Lackey's best novels.
Review: Mercedes Lackey should have gotten to the point a whole lot quicker. She took too much time to introduce the characters. If she had gotten to the point quicker, then she would have gotten five stars from me. Although the characters were fairly good ones, they should not have taken so long to introduce. When Mercades got into the action portion of the book, the book bacame more than interesting. She keeps your attention very well. Over all, Children of the Night prooved to be a faily decent book
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Summary: This is a very awsome book!!!
Review: My opinion is that Mercedes Lackey did a wonderful job on her book "Children Of The Night". I couldn't put the book down until I find out what is going to happen next. This book also had a wide variety of moods. It had passionate romances with a twist. The twist I say because a girl who has powers of magic falls in love with a handsome young looking French vampire and there is also some same sex romance. Don't get me wrong though, it is not perverted or nasty in anyway at all. It is pretty much clean in every way, so it is appropriate for all people. It also had suspense that you would not believe because in this book you don't know what kind of crazy or weird cool stuff will happen. For example, the main character, Di, would have a panic attack but thanks to her vampire friend, André`, helped her over come them. She ended up making here aura glow very bright like the sun. If you get into the story enough, it will make you be scared because the way Lackey describes how the poor victims feel and gives pretty good details about how they die. What I most love about the book is that it is so out there to the unknown. It deals with so many supernatural phenomenon's. This story deals with a vampire who spends time at libraries and opera houses during the day. His job is to protect a tribe called the Roms. Unfortunately the Rom children have been kidnapped by the bad guys and it's up to him and his friends to go save their lives. Di is cool because she some sort of witch called a Guardian who job is to help anyone who needs it. She has extraordinary powers, having the ability to feel what people feel, throwing psi volts and levin bolts, and protecting herself and others with her aura shield which can be transferred to someone else also. Keith and Lenny are the couple. They help there friends out a lot. They have the power to sense things. Now the bad guys, they are something called psivamps. They feed on the victims negative emotions; fear, sadness, hate, etc. pretty much. The gaki is some kind of Japanese demon cloud who takes human forms of anyone who gets eaten by it. It feeds on the soul of others and make them suffer tremendously to enjoy it's meal. Mater Jeffrey is the leader of the demons, the one behind it all. This is not even half of what they are capable of doing. With all these characters put together in New York City, it is one heck of a problem and adventure. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes romance,suspense, action, adventures, or/and likes there heart to race. People who loves reading about strange and out of this world powers, witches, and vampires would get more out of it more though. Over all, this book is better than anything else that I have ever read. So if I was to rate it on a scale of one to ten, I would rate it a 12.
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Summary: A Favorite in My Collection
Review: Reading the other reviews, I will ostensibly agree that anyone coming to this book after reading Hamilton or Huff will probably be dissappointed. If you are looking for lots of action, lots of physical sensuality and a harder, 90's type heroine--you won't find her here. Despite that, this is a book I've read cover to cover so often my copy is falling apart. Mercedes Lackey has in this book what she does so well in her best writing, character vulnerability and sensitivity. Diana Tregarde is a mystical guardian trying to figure out her own identity and emotions. Readers who enjoyed the Last Herald Mage series will likely enjoy this book. YA readers can be reccommended this as a precursor to the more adult vampire fiction out currently. To be honest, this more a book about understanding and character growth than it is about vamps, magic, or things that go bump in the night. Sometimes the heart themes may overwhelm the action, but that is the more important focus of the books, just as the erotic elements in Hamilton's novels tend to be kept in the foreground. Particular readers will respond to each. In any case, I love both Hamilton and Huff, but this remains my favorite book.
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Summary: One of the oddest books I've ever read
Review: That may be a compliment. I'm not certain. It doesn't have an extremely complex plotline. It doesn't make your brain work too hard -- if at all. It's even a bit cliched (don't tell me the 'vampire rocker' theme hasn't been used before), and the romatic part of it seems just the slightest bit silly. In short, it's pure entertainment, and I've read it cover-to-cover at least ten times (I've lost count).
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Summary: I love this book!!
Review: this book had some really cool characters OK, let me put it this way, "DDAAVVVIIIDDD! Come back!!!" *takes a deep beath* ok, i think im better. i love her view on psychic vampires. i've read about them in the Dark Visions series by L.J.Smith, but she only goes into slight detail. You could realy imagine David's feelings*feels her lip began to quiver again but hold it in* anyway, I loved Di, she's strong, but has some week points like all people. I also like how Lackey mixed in a little bit of humor to liven up the slow parts. But still, I loved David the most out of all the characters. He grew up so much in the book and you found he truly had a heart of gold. *sighs* oh well, i better go before a bore you to death with David.
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Summary: Grand start to a Wonderful new series....
Review: This first book of the Diana Tregarde series is a Grand Romp, Sexy Vampire, Good over Evil, and a glimpse at those among us with inherited gifts. The cost & the joy of them. There will always be fools among us who will, as Di puts it"That will put anything in there mouths, up their noses etc." & There are worse things than death. LOVED IT.
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Summary: Realism doesn't even begin to describe
Review: This is as realistic as fiction can get. Like in Jurassic Park, if you accept the fact about the dinosaurs, everything else follows logically. In this book, if you accept psionic powers and sorcery, everything else naturally follows. This is definately (if that's how you spell it) a good read and one I suggest to all.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This is the first book I read by Mercedes Lackey. I loved it! The main character, Diana, was great! Strong yet vulnerable, you just can't help but like her, as well as the other characters! I will finish reading the rest in the series as soon as possible!
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Summary: A Cry for Help
Review: This is the second of three books that Mercedes Lackey has written about Diana Tregarde, a psychic investigator and 'Guardian' whose job is to struggle with occult evil. The story is set in New York City, where Diana is working at an occult supply store making ends meet while she begins a career as a writer of romance novels. On this particular workday, she finds herself faced with an energy-draining hunter, a gypsy boy on the run from an unknown danger, and a different kind of hunter pursuing the first. Diana retreats to her apartment, baffled by these events. Elsewhere in the city, a bus with a ghostly driver runs its route, delivering death to its passengers. One of these is the close friend of and lover of people who are dear to Diana. When Lenny and Keith call her from the morgue, she rushes down to discover that something has torn the living soul from the victim, leaving him a worse than empty husk. Then the gypsy boy turns up dead in a nearby alley and Diana finds herself confronting the vampire that failed to protect him. Diana's investigations will bring back some of her worst fears, panic attacks that linger from a time when she almost failed. Somewhere else, a rock band relaxes at a Halloween party and they take a drug that makes a tiny adjustment to their metabolism. They find themselves feeding first on the appreciation and then on the fear, of their audiences. For all but Dave Kendall, once Diana's lover, this is a one-way spiral down to the darkest evil. Diana's energy hunter has made them, and a strange Japanese monster, a Gaki, is his companion. The Gaki takes what the energy vampires leave behind, the soul. To fight these creatures, human and not, Diana, Lenny and Keith team up with the most unlikely fourth, a true vampire. Even so, they are almost beaten before they start. 'Children of the Night' is very much the best of the three Tregarde tales, and I would even go so far as to name it one of her best stories over all. She lavishes enough attention on the characters to make them all believable individuals. The story is one that naturally keeps the reader's attention, replete with the embellishment that adds interest, and that has become so rare in modern storytelling. And the romantic byplay between Diana and Andre LaBrel, the vampire, is done just right. It is a shame that Diana Tregarde never went beyond the three volumes. But, Lackey's writing skills are such that she does not like to get stuck in a groove, and for that I cannot blame her. Maybe, some day soon, we will meet Diana again.
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Summary: A Cry for Help
Review: This is the second of three books that Mercedes Lackey has written about Diana Tregarde, a psychic investigator and 'Guardian' whose job is to struggle with occult evil. The story is set in New York City, where Diana is working at an occult supply store making ends meet while she begins a career as a writer of romance novels. On this particular workday, she finds herself faced with an energy-draining hunter, a gypsy boy on the run from an unknown danger, and a different kind of hunter pursuing the first. Diana retreats to her apartment, baffled by these events. Elsewhere in the city, a bus with a ghostly driver runs its route, delivering death to its passengers. One of these is the close friend of and lover of people who are dear to Diana. When Lenny and Keith call her from the morgue, she rushes down to discover that something has torn the living soul from the victim, leaving him a worse than empty husk. Then the gypsy boy turns up dead in a nearby alley and Diana finds herself confronting the vampire that failed to protect him. Diana's investigations will bring back some of her worst fears, panic attacks that linger from a time when she almost failed. Somewhere else, a rock band relaxes at a Halloween party and they take a drug that makes a tiny adjustment to their metabolism. They find themselves feeding first on the appreciation and then on the fear, of their audiences. For all but Dave Kendall, once Diana's lover, this is a one-way spiral down to the darkest evil. Diana's energy hunter has made them, and a strange Japanese monster, a Gaki, is his companion. The Gaki takes what the energy vampires leave behind, the soul. To fight these creatures, human and not, Diana, Lenny and Keith team up with the most unlikely fourth, a true vampire. Even so, they are almost beaten before they start. 'Children of the Night' is very much the best of the three Tregarde tales, and I would even go so far as to name it one of her best stories over all. She lavishes enough attention on the characters to make them all believable individuals. The story is one that naturally keeps the reader's attention, replete with the embellishment that adds interest, and that has become so rare in modern storytelling. And the romantic byplay between Diana and Andre LaBrel, the vampire, is done just right. It is a shame that Diana Tregarde never went beyond the three volumes. But, Lackey's writing skills are such that she does not like to get stuck in a groove, and for that I cannot blame her. Maybe, some day soon, we will meet Diana again.
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