Dark Ages: Brujah (World of Darkness)

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Summary: Undead Power Games in the Middle Ages ...
Review: This book is excellent. You could remove the vampires and it would be the same. Excellent plot with equally well-written characters. The vampire element adds flavour! And the medieval setting is wonderful, because it cloaks everything in a sense of history.

I truly admire the way relationships are illustrated between vampiric characters ( siblings in the blood / vampiric allies ) and vampiric characters and their mortal retinues. Especially the sense of protectorship that the Brujah protagonist harbours for her mortal servants/ghouls. The machinations of various clandestine powermongers and political players is engaging and makes for a substantive read from start to finish.

Like I said earlier ~ the plot could be taken straight from a more mundane story set with exclusively mortal characters within the same time frame and it would be just as compelling. It's truly a well-done piece of storytelling. Bravo!

This novel is yet another in a series of well-written stories in the Dark Ages line. I look forward to Toreador with barely contained anticipation.