For those familiar with Scott Marianis books, the hunt for an ancient relic with a fast paced history, tons of actions and with the pages just flying bye sound quite familiar and intriguing. Imagine this happening with vampires as one of the ingredients of the book, and you got the new series from Scott Mariani.
Marianis take on vampires is not the brutal hive-mind like take that Justin Cronine used in "The Passage", and Guillermo del Toro has in his series. It is more like the romantic version from True Blood and from the teen-hit "Twilight" series. Every vampire has it's own cognitive mind, and acts on their own accord.
Mariani could have done with some more prep work before releasing this book, the vampires are so like humans, that it sometimes is hard to tell them apart. That "dead" being breath hard after running, and their heart is running wild, just spoils the setting a bit for me.
Uprising is a decent book, it has a fast paced plot that involves the vampire federation, that want's to live in peace with humans (without humans knowing of their existence), and the old school vampires that think vampires are beings on a higher plane than humans, and that humans only should exists as slaves and food for vampires. The plot involves humans that hate vampires, but end up working with them, and the hunt for an ancient relic that has great powers.
If it had not been for Mariani forgetting that this is not one of his Ben Hope novels, this novel includes vampires and humans, and they are not the same, this would have been a fantastic read. It is still worth picking up, and I am looking forward to the next book in the series, as the plot started in the first book has some real potential. Hopefully with the same fast paced, hunt for relics, action, but also with a bit different take on how vampires actually behave.
