the 2nd Saint Germain book I've read recently. I enjoyed both of them hugely, these books are more historical fiction that about vampires, though Saint Germain has been a vampire for over 3500 years, living through many periods of history, and it is these periods of history taht Yarbro does extr...
Fans of Saint-Germain will be absolutely delighted at this addition to the saga of the legendary vampire. It is the year 535 AD and Saint-Germain, aka Zangi-Ragozh, is a successful merchant in China. Called to wait upon the Chinese Emperor, Zangi-Rogozh starts to cross China with a small caravan ...
A Mortal Glamour, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Juno Books, 2007Set in 14th Century France, times are hard at the convent La Tres Saunte Annunciacion. The plague has come, killing many of the area’s residents. The Catholic Church has two popes; one is in Rome, while the other rules from the French city o...
Night Blooming was definitely worthy of a 4.5 star rating.The most emphatic praise I have always credited to Yarbro is her historicity and attention to a historically accurate atmosphere, and in this yet again she did not disappoint. Her regard to the structure of the church in the era of Charlem...
It's hard to write good reviews for the books you like, because there's a strong tendency to fangirl and write a review that consists of "OMG! THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD!!1! RAGOCZY IS SO HAWT. ROWENA IS SO DUM. SHE TOTALLY DOESN'T DESERVE HIM! BUY IT!! OMG I LOVE YOU CHELSEA!!"I'll try to do the book ...
3.5 stars. This teeters on the edge of being a really good book, but then I'm a sucker for a lonely, brooding, good-guy vampire. It has elements of romance and the supernatural, but mostly it's historical fiction. Saint-Germain's supernatural characteristics are very low-key.This is the second of...
In Fiorenza in the time of the Medicis, Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano has commissioned the most unusual and opulent of palazzos. It has secret rooms where he may work his alchemy, and where he may truly refresh himself in sleep on a bed made from his homeland's soil. He often accompanies Loren...
I was intrigued by the cover of this Renaissance-set fantasy, but unfortunately it didn't live up to expectations. Split between 'reality' and 'fantasy', it follows the daydreams of the poet Ludovico Ariosto, who seeks to escape his mundane life through fantasies of being a great paladin among th...
Saint-Germain makes jewels (don't ask) for Ivan the Terrible in 16th century Russia.Not one of my favorites of the series. I enjoy these, but I need to remember to space them out because they all have pretty much the same plot transposed into a different setting. It's as if Saint-Germain is doome...
Adventures of the vampire Saint Germain in 10th century Germany, where he comes to the aid of people trying to defend their fortress against disease and marauders. It's hard to like the characters in this book, because the culture is superstitious, misogynistic, and brutal. (They execute one woma...
I had been looking forward to reading the story of the infamous Csimenae, the woman Saint-Germain saved by turning her into a vampire; she who rejected her maker's advice and his ethics and proceeded to create her own vampire army. But her story is rather pathetic, as is Saint-Germain's response ...
Horses? check. Capable determined young teenaged girl? check. Exciting appearances in the arenas of Rome? check. Yep, a book that might appeal to boys and girls alike, despite being written over 20 years ago.Set in the eastern portions of the Roman Empire during the reign of Nero, Four Horses for...
I am really enjoying these books about a 4000-year-old world-traveling good-guy vampire, even if the rather florid writing keeps me from actually recommending it to other people. If you like historical fiction and the idea of a kind-hearted vampire, and you don't mind some melodrama, you might li...
Count Saint Germaine continues his life as a vampire 4000 years old. He is living between France and Austria in 1817 after the Napolean has been defeated for the final time. He is accused of aiding robbers because he is a foreigner and goes out of his way to aid in their capture. Meanwhile, he...
"La maggior parte dei cadaveri giacevano presso i silos e i depositi del quartiere industriale dove i difensori, intrappolati tra i Vigilanti e il fiume Sacramento, avevano opposto l'ultima resistenza ed erano stati massacrati. Anche un certo numero di assalitori erano rimasti sul terreno, e Thea...
Saint Germain travels to 17th century Rome to help Niklos in a legal dispute over the property left to him by Atta Olivia Clemens. I like Niklos, and wish there had been more of him in this novel. It's a pretty typical entry in the Saint-Germain saga: nicely detailed historical fiction that's onl...
(As posted on my blog, see "Book Blog" dated July 8, 2011)In this novel, Yarbro has taken a historical person, Count of Saint Germain, and written him as a heroic vampire. Hôtel Transylvania is also a real place. As Yarbro writes in her notes at the end of the novel, "Built in the reign of Loius ...
Since there are so few reviews I feel I should add one. Lets see, book published 1981 and the stage is set 1991 ish. There is no mention of internet or cellphones xD. Apparently 1991 we are suffering from serious overpopulation largely due to having no disease. We can cure almost anything. Cancer...
