Tanya Huff is a unique author who does the unexpected in this fairly lighthearted, but occasionally dark vampire series. The humans and vampires are friends--not victims and prey, which is a refreshing change. Both "species" show vulnerability and strengths.
Helpful Score: 2
Loved it. Easy read. No jargon, except for some television production lingo. Fun romp even without any romance. Dialog fast and clever. Suitable for teens.
Helpful Score: 1
Henry and Tony, who have relocated to Vancouver (without Vicky and Mike), help a good wizard from an alternate universe defeat an evil one and once again save the world from disaster.
Fans will probably like this book. It was my first encounter with Huff's work, and it didn't do much for me. I'm a fan both of GLBT fiction and romantic/erotic vampire novels. so I expected to like this book but didn't, really.
Vampires and soap operas? It's in here.
First in the series, but a spin-off from the "Blood" series with Henry Fitzroy. I think it might take a bit to figure out the relationship between Henry and Tony if you haven't read the earlier. On to this book, which just dragged on and on for me. Tony, Arra, and Henry chase a shadow. Then they do it again. And again. The first quarter moves, the last quarter moves, but the middle 50% just drags on and on with no forward momentum. We don't really get just WHY the Shadowlord has such a fixation about Arra; we don't have curiousity from Tony or Henry about this whole other world Arra comes from. I could go on. There are good bits of course, some good chase scenes and a lot of nice snarky dialogue, plus a bit at the end which leaves you with enough interest in Tony to maybe pick up the next. Oh, and if it matters to you, Tony is gay and Henry the vampire is bi, but there are no "scenes" to speak of.
I tried to read all three but he could of taken 4 chapters out and still had good books
Story was good although i liked the story line in the first
books better.
books better.
