Unholy Allies (Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy, Vol 2) [Mass Market Paperback]

Robert Weinberg (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing (December 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565048415
• ISBN-13: 978-1565048416
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 3.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,200,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born on August 29, 1946, making me one of the famous "baby boomer" generation. I attended Hillside High School in New Jersey, then got my B.S. degree in mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology. I later obtained by M.S. in mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where I taught math for two years. I was working on my Ph.D. in Number Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago when I met my (future) wife Phyllis in 1972. We were married in 1973 and I left college to start my own business. I ran three very successful corporations after leaving college and did some writing on the side. When I was 40, I decided I wanted to concentrate more on writing fiction, which I had done in college but had abandoned afterwards. So I started writing novels in 1986. My first book, THE DEVIL'S AUCTION, was published in 1998 and I've written another 15 novels since then. I'm probably best known as the author of a popular trilogy I wrote for White Wolf Games entitled THE MASQUERADE OF THE RED DEATH. These three novels have been published in a number of different languages (including French, German, Spanish and Hungarian) and I've gotten well over 1,000 fan letters about them since they first appeared.

I also have written 17 non-fiction books, many of them in the pop-science field with my friend, Lois H. Gresh. And, in my spare time, I've edited around 150 anthologies. I like to keep busy!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but with a few issues, February 29, 2008

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Asha'man (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Allies (Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy, Vol 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, July 19, 2000

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Aitor Mendaza Ormaza - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Allies (Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy, Vol 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

3.0 out of 5 stars Suffers from "middle-book-itis"., June 12, 2000

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This review is from: Unholy Allies (Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy, Vol 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

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.