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Summary: It you like Murder Mysteries - this is a MUST READ
Review: Most of the vampire books on the market are far too predictable and formula driven to be rated much higher than a 5 or 6. But this book is a wonderful and welcome exception! Barbara has written a captivating murder mystery that I was not able to put down during my first reading. I have since read the book 3 more times, each time as enjoyable as the last. I have also presented it as gifts to several friends, and they've all thanked me after reading the book. I can't wait to get my hands on the long awaited sequeal
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Summary: Extremely good Mystery/Horror set in late 1800's.
Review: One of the better vampire books I have read. Combines the era and style of Sherlock Holmes with the genre of Horror. Keeps you guessing until the end.
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Summary: True gothic adventure!
Review: One of the few gothic-style tales that does not stink of formula or screen play. The vampires are real, the plot is captivating. If you like works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelly and Rudyard Kipling, you're in for a treat
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Summary: A book that makes you wish for a sequel
Review: Simply put, this is a well written story. Perhaps, the best writen Vampire story ever. And with no criticism intended to modern vampire tales, this intuitively feels like the right era to set the action in--gaslight, shadows, superstition vs. reason, London. What's not to like? The characterization is well done,especially in the case of Ysidro--who is complex and layered. As far as the mystery goes nothing seems formulaic--it is compelling and engrosing. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would. It's that good.
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Summary: The BEST
Review: Simply put, this is the BEST vampire book I've ever read. The characters are well developed and "real", the plot is entertaining. I've read Rice's vampire chronicles and enjoyed them greatly. I've read (part of) Stoker's Dracula and found it much too dry. "Golden", "The Hunger" and countless outher novels and short stories are all well and good (for the most part), but in this book, Hambly has captured my heart. I found myself concerned about Simon and his "family", fearful for Asher and truly engrossed in the story. I can't wait to find the time to read the sequel and whatever else I can find my Ms. Hambly.
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Summary: The BEST
Review: Simply put, this is the BEST vampire book I've ever read. The characters are well developed and "real", the plot is entertaining. I've read Rice's vampire chronicles and enjoyed them greatly. I've read (part of) Stoker's Dracula and found it much too dry. "Golden", "The Hunger" and countless outher novels and short stories are all well and good (for the most part), but in this book, Hambly has captured my heart. I found myself concerned about Simon and his "family", fearful for Asher and truly engrossed in the story. I can't wait to find the time to read the sequel and whatever else I can find my Ms. Hambly.
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Summary: Gripping as Ysidro's iron touch
Review: Someone or something is murdering the vampires of London, and ex-spy James Asher is blackmailed into hunting the killer by the enigmatic Don Simon Ysidro, stalker of the night. At first of a mind to locate and join forces with the killer, Asher finds himself drawn into the vampire world. A page turner. Be prepared to be swept away.
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Summary: A British spy becomes an unwilling defender of vampires.
Review: There are a lot of vampire books out there. Most of them have little to contribute to the vampire field, and a lot of them are formulaic exercises in putting vampires in situations you never see them in (vampire rock singers, vampire cops, etc.). Hambly uses a late gothic England to portray a vampire culture, not unfamiliar, but certainly refreshing. The vampires are being hunted by one of their own, and so they enlist the services of a British spy, the best (pitiful by vampire standards) humanity has to offer. When the protagonist seems reluctant, the vampires make the mistake of dragging his wife, a mortologist, into things. Part gothic horror, part science fact, Hambly treats vampires with respect without making us one of them. We are reminded how powerful, how beautiful, and how dangerous these beings can be. All that and a suprise ending too!
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Summary: Enter the world of vampirerisme
Review: This book amazes me , never have i read a book so fast and so intense. Rice and Stoker are buddng besides this.
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Summary: Chilling, but also full of feelings.
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. A human unwilling becomes a hunter after a vampyre murder. Don Simon Ysidro (a vampire) hires James Ashes (a human) with his wife's life as the payment. Ashes at first hates the vampire, but after a time, when he gets to know Simon better they start protecting each other. James by trying to find the killer before it takes Simons life, Simon, by protecting James and his wife from the other vampyres. A MUST for all vampyre or murder mystery lovers.
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