Stephanie Meyer and Deborah Harkness need a lesson in what a vampire really is and that lesson is "The Fallen Blade". Jon Courtenay Grimwood has taken a step back (thank God) towards the more traditional vampire myth. However, what really drew me to this book was its setting in 15th century Venice -...
Pretty good, but I thought the conclusion was a little bit of a let down.
A little slow to start, but once it got going I remembered why I liked the first in the series so much.
Complex & dark fantasy book
An excellent follow on from the Fallen Blade. Top quality fantasy that is full of subtlety and intrigue.It concerns the recently widowed Lady Giulietta, who has the German and Byzantine empires wanting their preferred suitors to marry her and control Venice. The fly in the ointment is Tycho, a letha...
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