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Summary: No idea...
Review: I bought it as a gift, he apparently liked it enough, he continued the series longer than he continued seeing me... :o)
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Summary: Pulp Adventure but Good and Fun!
Review: I don't know what some of the reviewers are looking for in this book. It's good fun and seems to be the start of an exciting series. Is it great literature? Certainly not. But I'll give it five stars for being a good read.
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Summary: How easy is it to get 5 stars?
Review: I find it amazingly depressing how easy it is for a book on Amazon.Com to get five stars. All too often these reviews aren't even reviews of the book, but simply 'I read another book by this guy, and it was really good, so I'm looking forward to this one.' (Disagree? Read the first eighty or so reviews of A Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan.) In the previous review of this book, one for five stars, the person didn't even read the whole book. My goodness. There's a trustworthy source.Clan Novel Toreador was no _To Kill a Mockingbird_. It was no _The Catcher in the Rye_. It was no _Catch 22_. It was no _The Grapes of Wrath_. Now these are all books I'd give five stars. Hopefully at least one of them on the previous list is one that you would too. Similarly, Clan Novel Toreador is not _Interview With the Vampire_, _Jurassic Park_ or _The Firm_. All books I would give three or four stars. I am a fan of the Vampire role playing game, but I still recognize trash when I see it. Now and again there is an excuse for trash. Pulp fantasy. Romance novels. Still, having an excuse for trash does not make it anything more. Sadly, not having an excuse for trash makes it something much less. With depressingly shoddy writing, a laughable plot (complete with annoying subplots and obvious plot-twists) and characters deserving of hate, this book deserves one star. Especially loathesome are the writer's sad attempts at erotica. The only thing that got hard while I was reading this book was attempting to continue reading this piddling example of literature. I give it two stars because it is what it is. Game fiction. There isn't much out there in the genre of fiction based on RPGs (or television shows, really) that rises above the bottom half of any scale. So I give this a two, signifying that it is unadulterated mediocrity, but that such tripe is readily acceptable in a genre that is, itself, utterly mundane.
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Summary: Sad start for Storyteller
Review: I find it somehow ironic that a company who call their Game Referees Storytellers should have such a thin grasp on the meaning of the term. Typically one would assume that the first book in a series would be used as a hook to draw the reader into the world being presented. Clan Novel Toreador fails miserably in this respect. There is little, if any, character development and the idea of plot seems lost on the author. The Book never even graduated to painfully bad... at best it was boring. I will endeavor to struggle with this series in hopes that the other 'Storytellers' in this series can manage to live up to the term, though I dread the upcoming Clan Novel Malkavian as it seems to be regurgitated by the same 'author'.
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Summary: Sad start for Storyteller
Review: I find it somehow ironic that a company who call their Game Referees Storytellers should have such a thin grasp on the meaning of the term. Typically one would assume that the first book in a series would be used as a hook to draw the reader into the world being presented. Clan Novel Toreador fails miserably in this respect. There is little, if any, character development and the idea of plot seems lost on the author. The Book never even graduated to painfully bad... at best it was boring. I will endeavor to struggle with this series in hopes that the other 'Storytellers' in this series can manage to live up to the term, though I dread the upcoming Clan Novel Malkavian as it seems to be regurgitated by the same 'author'.
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Summary: Toreador review
Review: I liked this book. It was a decent intro to the world of the Camarilla, in particular, two Toreador vampires. I read reviews of most of the series of 13 novels, and this first book didn't rate real high. If that's the case, I am really looking forward to reading the novels which seemed to rate the highest! Setite, Gangrel, and Ravnos.
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Summary: Great Story...
Review: I loved the story. The Toreador as they were meant to be seen. The writing was so so in places. But the overal plot makes up for it. An extremly easy read I recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Horrible!
Review: I used to play Vampire the Masquerade, and when I found out about these books I was ecstatic. Wow! was I dissapointed when I read this book. The whole point of the rpg is character development, which this book had none of! The characters were weak to say the least. I found my mind wandering throughout this book, it did not hold my attention at all! I am sure any rpg gamer will agree with me that this book was lacking in many ways. I am afraid to even attempt to read the others!
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Summary: An interesting look at the Clan.
Review: If you are fan of the World of Darkness you will enjoy this interesting look at the world of Kindred Politics. The characters are deep and very real. The only problem I have with the book is that it wasn't long enough; there were a few unanswered questions. I do understand that this is an ongoing story, however it would have been nice to have some closure with some of the characters. I enjoyed it and look forward to the upcoming novels.
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Summary: Not quite up to mediocre.
Review: If you enjoy the Vampire roleplaying game, and don't object overmuch to a book that is sloppily written and edited, and that has no real ending (granted, to give it its due, it at least doesn't end on a cliffhanger, as so many "series" books do these days; the end just sort of trails off, but it doesn't really give a feeling of completion) you might enjoy this book. The characters aren't bad, and the plot is tolerable. But great literature this certainly is not, nor even especially good genre fiction. An okay quick read, nothing more.
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