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Vampire The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley

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danidoll91's review against another edition

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dark

3.0

geekwayne's review

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4.0

'Vampire The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth Vol. 1' by Tim Seeley, Tini Howard and Blake Howard is a graphic novel set in the world of the tabletop role playing game that's been around since 1991.

This story takes place among a group of vampires in the Twin Cities. It involves murder, court intrigue and a group of outcast vampires called the Anarchs. There is a court enforcer named Cecily who takes a young abandoned vampire under her care at the expense of someone personal for Cecily. After the graphic novel, there is an rpg module featuring the settings and characters of the story.

I haven't played the rpg, but I didn't have a problem getting in to this world and the gritty story. There are a lot of subplots going on, but it's all handled rather well. The Anarchs story arc is presented as an extra story in every issue. The art was adequate, but worked.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Vault Comics, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

dame_samara's review against another edition

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3.0

Did I enjoy this book? yes.
Do I think it could have done a fantastically better job at being an introduction to Vampirine the Masquerade? YES.

This has an incredibly interesting storyline, with really awesome characters, and being set in the Twin Cities it feels different from where Vampire Games are typically set since at their core Political due to "The Masquerade".
I am honestly excited to see where this story goes, because I am in love with Ali and Cicely.
My one gripe with the actual story was the overall lack of diversity, as well as who was written to be the overall mastermind of the conflict.

What IAM UPSET about is that this piece of fiction expects you to inherently know about this world. So instead of working as a way to bring more people into this fandom. Which with more explanation, or some pre-face could be covered to help facilitate just that. Given that Ali is literally a fledgling and was thrown into this world, Ali could have acted as a fill-in for a better run down of the Masquerade and Clans at least,
With their being video games, and table top rpgs, (including resources for said rpg in the back of THIS book) it could definitely have been way more accessible to people and ends up feeling like they made the choice not to be.

andreadmw's review

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I didn’t care about any of the characters or what was happening to them.

rosariofacio's review against another edition

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3.0

Thank you to the publishers and net galley for approving me for the arc. I loved the art to this graphic novel it really suited the theme of the story especially with how gory it got and the details to everything. The storytelling however could have been a bit better. I found myself lost trying to figure out how we got from one scene to another or what the characters were even talking about especially when the character would just be spending a few pages just singing it was meh. I do want to know what's next for the characters now with how things ended it left me asking even more questions. I'm willing to pick up the next graphic novel.

heregrim's review

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5.0

All the memories of playing this years ago. Love the backstabbing, political vampireness in the Twin Cities. With the death of the Prince and the threat of an uprising and attacks by Hunters can the Kindred survive until dawn? Cecily Bain, former Anarch, Brujah dirty book of the Prince is going to try and find out.