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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but with a few issues, February 29, 2008
I enjoyed this book quite a bit, but there were a couple of things about it that sort of irked me. For example, there are several places where the editor let grammar or spelling errors through, and like the other books in this trilogy, Weinburg likes to *make sure* that you know what someone looks like. But, I still enjoyed this book, and the trilogy in general. Oh, and in case it matters to anyone, the pages are quite thin, and sometimes the ink on the pages will smudge a bit (not to the point of unreadability), which made me change the way I held it open.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, July 19, 2000
This is a great book, with secrets and plots everywere, has it should be, with Cainites. The secrets that Dire has, even those not known by himself, keep you thinking, and trembling. Great book of a great trilogy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Suffers from "middle-book-itis"., June 12, 2000
The first book of the "Masquerade of the Red Death" trilogy, "Blood War", was a well-written, fast paced, interesting novel with one flaw: It had no ending. This is a common flaw in trilogies or multi-book series; even if the main plot will carry from one book to the next, ideally, some major subplot should be begun and ended in each book, or at the very least there should be an ending of each individual book at a reasonable "break point."This book did not suffer from this as badly as I expected it to; it did not feel like it had no beginning, in spite of the fact that it was a continuation of "Blood War". And while it had no true ending, the cutoff point was more reasonable than that in the first book. Still, I cannot rate this book, on its own, higher than a three, because it is not a complete story on its own. The series as a whole may wind up with a higher rating than that, but as an individual book, this is simply a story fragment. It's a well-written and interesting story fragment, but a story fragment nonetheless.
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