Rating: Summary: Highly anticipated Review: I have eagerly devoured each novel in this series. Although many different authors were employed throughout the process, Fleming definitely wrote the most powerful stories in the series (with the exception of Gangrel). I can't wait to get my hands on this book and see how everything (?) is resolved. The clan novel series has been, without a doubt, the most chaotic and unpredictable book saga that I have ever read. I can't wait to own them all so that I can go back and read 'em again.
Rating: Summary: AMAZING! Review: I just wanna say that this book IS THE BEST OF ALL THE CLAN NOVELS I'VE READ SO FAR... SIMPLY AMAZING, bye
Rating: Summary: A typical story Review: I think the book is disapointing compare to the rest of the chronical. They should have been more fantastique thant that. All too stereotype for the poor Ventrue. Pathetic that they stay so dumb in the book than in the RP game.
Rating: Summary: Hell no Review: I thought most of this was good. What they did to Moncada though? PLEASE. He would've thrashed Lucita and Fatima. What a serious let down. It should have been no contest. Thumbs down.
Rating: Summary: Must Read Review: I've read all the books in the series before this and this is the best one yet. At first I thought the series was going to be a waste, but this book gives it a chance. The Ventrue were done good and the Brujah were done better. Read this book.
Rating: Summary: Must Read Review: I've read all the books in the series before this and this is the best one yet. At first I thought the series was going to be a waste, but this book gives it a chance. The Ventrue were done good and the Brujah were done better. Read this book.
Rating: Summary: Exciting! Review: It's a cool novel! Exciting, thrilling, amazing! You accompany Fatima al-Faqadi to Alamut, where you get an insight in the structure and inner politics of the Eagle's Nest. You visit a Sabbat invasion in the USA and a showdown with the Lasombra Archbishop of Lisbon. You learn details about some of Fatima's Rafiq colleagues as well as about Clan Elders like Jamal, Ur-Shulgi, Thetmes and Al-Ashrad. Maybe the best VtM book I have read.
Rating: Summary: getting better Review: Most people would consider Ventrue wimps as far as fighting goes. They would be wrong. Dominate,Fortitude,and Presence these three Disciplines(of Ventrue) could be used quite devastating in a fight. Someone should of told Gherbod that. Other than the Ventrue's apparent wimpiness I whould have to say this was the best book so far and my hopes for this series have returned. This book is what I expected from Gherbod(after reading the blood curse).ps was Gangrel a ghost author???
Rating: Summary: GHERBOD GOES GREAT GUNS ON GANGREL Review: Ramona the Gangrel and main character shows the characterization of a member of the clan who has for two years had no sire to show her the way a Gangrel act as she fights to save the humanity she has left Her sire Tanner comes back to retrieve her without being much help.She must contend and learn that in this new life which is refreshing not to have her become adjusted to the ways of the Kindred or the Ways of the Gangrel easy,She continues to struggle with the fact of her immortality and that the world outside is now only meant for sustenance,If you loved Kindred:The Embraced You'll love this book and if your a fan of other vampire novelists like Rice,and Wiecker you Will enjoy this book.The actions of Ramona will surprise you as they surpise her.I hope the others are as Good if not better than these.can't wait for Setite
Rating: Summary: Pieces of the Puzzle Review: The good people at White Wolf seem to have developed a sort of fascination with the Assamites (go and look at the number of entries Assamite characters get in CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT if you don't believe me). Unfortunately, I'm one of those who has never found the Assamites all that appealing. If that isn't your problem, tho, there's a lot in this book to like. It takes you inside the Assamite headquarters of Alamut, for example, and gives you a good sense of the secret workings of the clan and their internal politics. This book is more scattered in its focus than Fleming's CLAN NOVEL: GANGREL but less so than his CLAN NOVEL: VENTRUE. There is a strong central character- the Assamite elder, Fatimah. She shares the stage with other Assamite characters but, more importantly, with the Lasombra Lucita and Lucita's sire Cardinal Moncada. My problem is that I couldn't really find anyone to like in this story. Fatimah seemed stiff and humorless. I generally like the Lasombra (which makes this book especially hard to enjoy for a number of reasons) but I've never gotten Lucita's appeal and she seems to have even fewer redeeming qualities here than usual. Moncada did have the virtue of being truly creepy but loving to hate someone can only do so much. In short, this really wasn't the book for me and I was relieved to get to CLAN NOVEL: RAVNOS after this. Still, if you click with these characters better than I did, then, yes, I would say that this book does tell a story that stands alone- although not as much as GANGREL does- and can be read apart from the rest of the series. But don't do that. First of all because Assamites are creatures of intrigue and unless you know what's been brewing some of the stuff that happens here- especially with the Assamite Parmenides- won't begin to make sense. Second, the really fun and bestest thing here is the delightful way this book fills in pieces of the puzzle created by the earlier books in the Clan Novel series- retelling incidents from other characters' points of view, for example, so that you finally have some idea of what was happening and why.
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