OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS OF Christopher Golden
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PLOT:
Peter Octavian is a vampire and lives in Boston in the mid-nineties, where he does the job of private investigator. For centuries, is fighting with his people, because of his ideas: it is convinced of the possibility of peaceful coexistence with humans. While investigating the disappearance of Janet, the daughter of a friend of his investigations are hampered by the appearance of a priest, Liam Mulkerrin, sent by a section Vatican special, with extraordinary powers. He is in search of the "Gospel of Shadows," a magic book that hides secrets that go beyond imagination. Peter, including the danger posed by Mulkerrin, will be forced to rejoin his people to avert a catastrophe that is borne not only about vampires, but on the whole human race.
review by Nanny Ranz
Let's face it: now the vampires have really broken, but maybe it's better to say who broke the pseudo modern writers churning out books, photocopies, in which the figure of this beautiful being is almost always faded. But here is change log.
Di Santi and 'Shadows is a book that define innovative is an understatement: the vampire is here described as a demon whose sole purpose is to suck blood from other people and turn them into undead, they exist because they exist, such as flowers, plants, animals and other creatures in the world. Golden strikes one after another all the old ideologies of vampiric nature, so that in the end it seems almost impossible that it is not the protagonist's dream of a peaceful coexistence between the two races.
The novel is compelling and it runs very well without breaks, in a succession of unexpected events that attract the reader and urge him to move on, to see what happens. Psychology character is not very marked, except Peter and Mulkerrin, but the story does not suffer, indeed, the author seems to want to insist that make us understand that there is a good and a bad race, but characters in positive and negative of the two. The finish is perhaps a bit 'too heroic, maybe something more dark and gothic would be more appropriate.
There are many questions that at the end of the book are still waiting for an answer, but this is due to the fact that this is the first volume of "Saga of Shadows," the fourth volume came to America and I hope that the Gargoyle is able to publish all, because if it is true that a good morning starts in the morning ..
VOTE: 8
INCIPIT
Manny Soares began to have enough to work with the damn broom. Twenty years in the office of the Secretary of State and was still there with broom in hand. Dropped with a thud on the bathroom floor. He needed a cigarette.
He lit a walk to the data processing section. He'd never smoked in a home office.
The lights were out, had already finished cleaning the room for an hour, but was not completely dark. The stars and a bright moon lit up the night, a beautiful clear night. The next day was snowing, but there was to be trusted, given the fame of Meteorologists in Boston. The only good thing about this work were the windows. Looking out, as he often did, Manny thought much more in those five minutes than in the rest of the day. It was awfully nice.
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