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VAMPIRE MAKER

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I've been a big fan of this writer's endeavors within this series because of some features -- the drive of the prantogonist Victor (to coin a term) and its erotic projection -- and in spite of others such as the choice to root Victor's actions & motivations in a failed dalliance with an historical figure in a religiopolitical context and conflict.

Yeah, that all sounds academic, but when these books were hot, they were hot!!

Now you just feel the author's angst in just filling the page to contractual minimum. And instead of doing so by cheap, romance novel, prurient tropes it's by misplaced horticultural surveys. Past novels reveled in what was happening in Victor's S&M clubs, here you get lengthy description of the landscaping outside.

The book plain feels forced to have been written. I hope I'm right about the author struggling to fulfill some contract about these characters, because the alternative is his wholly losing the ability to spin an engaging story.

Did I read the same books as everyone else?! I loved it! I love Schefelbein's intelligent and theological approach to his Vampires...specifically Victor.
Victor....spurned by Jesus himself..or Joshu as he was known at the time. He never got over it...plans to revenge..avenge...forget...renounce...his Jesus..his Joshu.

His eternal life is governed by his well-spring of emotions which he can't get past.
Now in New Orleans he meets a priest who is questioning his sexual orientation. Just what Victor loves! He loves his thrall too.

The descriptive narrative of New Orleans is excellent as it is just after the flood.

The new characters are well-fleshed out. Besides Victor, we have the priest and Victor's thrall whom Victor wants to make his vampire.

Victor life(excuse the pun) is hanging...he won't ascent...and therein lies the problem.

As usual Schefelbien makes the Catholic Church, the priest and Joshu...Victor's nemisis.

I recommend all the Schefelbien Vampire books for those who value an intelligent theological argument and excellent settings from around the world.

Not even close to his previous books. This one actually was corney. Not a good read.

I don't read books very often due to the lack of time, but I got hooked on the first book in this series(Vampire VowVampire Vow) when I took a long vacation and couldn't put it down. I anxiously waited the second...third and now this one. I wish Michael would've been a little more neutral with the "pro" religious undertones (as in Vow), but a really good read nevertheless.