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A review by paulopaperbooksonly
Toreador by Stewart Wieck
4.0
This is my first take on the Vampire Masquerade series. I never play the RPG or play the PC Games. I understand that this series (Vampire Masquerade) is probably where True Blood , Underworld among other Vampire media grab it's origins.
This is a fast pace reading, even I which sometimes don't read that fast , made me read page after page since every chapter is only a couple of pages long. All of the novel is set in Atalanta (some other instances we jump to New York but very brief).
We've got a war going on between Anarch & Camarilla. We are mainly told (very few action scenes) and by the end we've got the intervention of Sabbat. Since this was the first book there are hints here and there of things that I understand will come to fruitation later on like per example the Eye of Hazimel. There are hints also of Blood Curse that swept the land, of Malkavian sects but all was really high level - again I deduce going to be told in the later novels.
In this novel we follow first Leopold (a Toreador artist) who is trying to live his life among humans and vampires but not really getting involved in anything. Is also trying to find out who his sire is. He believes it's Victoria Ash (another Toreador) but he has yet to confirm and she is the main protagonist on the second half of the novel after the gathering of all participants in a Elysium (a place where all vampires can be in peace - even warring ones).
We are introduced to other characters like Rolph the nosferatu, Hannah the Tremere who made Leopold make a sculpture of her (when he even says he can sculp Kindred), Theo the Brujah (Anarch), Benjamim the Ventrue, We've got also The Prince Beninson, his wife Eleanor or the General. There is also a Setite (Vegel) which I don't think there is a book for them and couple of others and Benito Giovanni (The one in New York) and I didn't understood his purpose on this tale.
Now, is this a good book or bad? Well, It's a good introduction to the Vampires and I didn't felt lost per se. There were some questions I had but it made me search youtube videos which is always nice. I think the book is very much on the "Telling" side than showing and sometimes it's feels that you are reading a sourcebook which kind makes sense since Stewart is one of the creators. I am going to give this book 80/100. Next month, second novel - Clan Tzimisce.
This is a fast pace reading, even I which sometimes don't read that fast , made me read page after page since every chapter is only a couple of pages long. All of the novel is set in Atalanta (some other instances we jump to New York but very brief).
We've got a war going on between Anarch & Camarilla. We are mainly told (very few action scenes) and by the end we've got the intervention of Sabbat. Since this was the first book there are hints here and there of things that I understand will come to fruitation later on like per example the Eye of Hazimel. There are hints also of Blood Curse that swept the land, of Malkavian sects but all was really high level - again I deduce going to be told in the later novels.
In this novel we follow first Leopold (a Toreador artist) who is trying to live his life among humans and vampires but not really getting involved in anything. Is also trying to find out who his sire is. He believes it's Victoria Ash (another Toreador) but he has yet to confirm and she is the main protagonist on the second half of the novel after the gathering of all participants in a Elysium (a place where all vampires can be in peace - even warring ones).
We are introduced to other characters like Rolph the nosferatu, Hannah the Tremere who made Leopold make a sculpture of her (when he even says he can sculp Kindred), Theo the Brujah (Anarch), Benjamim the Ventrue, We've got also The Prince Beninson, his wife Eleanor or the General. There is also a Setite (Vegel) which I don't think there is a book for them and couple of others and Benito Giovanni (The one in New York) and I didn't understood his purpose on this tale.
Now, is this a good book or bad? Well, It's a good introduction to the Vampires and I didn't felt lost per se. There were some questions I had but it made me search youtube videos which is always nice. I think the book is very much on the "Telling" side than showing and sometimes it's feels that you are reading a sourcebook which kind makes sense since Stewart is one of the creators. I am going to give this book 80/100. Next month, second novel - Clan Tzimisce.