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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An EXCELLENT intro to the new World of Darkness, January 5, 2005
First and foremost, A Hunger Like Fire is a fantastic novel! The writing portrays each character very well and provides just enough information so that the reader can inhabit the world without drowning in rpg-speak.
Every main character is very well drawn out, as are most of the peripheral characters. Stolze is quite adept at storytelling and his use of first person and change of POV seems neither contrived nor forced. I got a very good sense of each individual character.
The story is pure World of Darkness. Mood is everything and this book is dark and creepy. You get a very good sense of the pain Bruise feels after he drains a human and is left with the aftermath. Persephone is a hoot, but you also get the feeling at novel's end that she may have bitten off more than she can chew, so to speak. Solomon is a monster, pure and simple, yet truly does care for his best friend, Prince Maxwell, even as he plots the man's downfall. Religious zealotry must be fun to write! The rest of the characters, from Loki, to Bella to Scratch, are all well plotted. Most have little to do with advancing the story, but their inclusion adds to the world we are just now begining to explore through fiction...and does so gracefully and thoughtfully.
Five stars to Greg Stolze for this wonderful novel. The typeface was somewaht difficult to deal with at first, but became inconsequential once the story drew me in (almost immediately). The cover art is awesome. I'm glad to have the chance to be with this new World of Darkness from the beginning and Greg Stolze has certainly set the bar high for future writers.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Excellent Introduction to the Requiem, July 21, 2005
I'll be honest, while I've been a role-player for something like 25 years (or close to it)and a LARP-er for about 5, I never really got into White Wolf games such as Vampire. It always seemed like they were just "Monster: the Adjective" and had some way too weird people taking the business of playing a vampire far too seriously. But my gaming group decided to get into the Requiem. I decided to be one of several Storytellers. So in addition to the rule books, I picked up "A Hunger Like Fire."
It's great. I now feel like I have a handle on the feeling and the atmosphere of Vampire: the Requiem. On what it must be like to be one of the Damned in the newest version of the game. What must it be like to wake up thirsting for blood? How do you go from one society, of humanity and everything you know, to a totally different and alien society you know nothign about? How does one learn their gifts? How does one even survive? This book really gets into those questions.
Ultimately, I didn't want this book to end. I wanted to keep it going. I kept reading to turn the page, to find out what happened next. That's the true test of any book. I've read some books I simply completed to just finish. A few, I've never finished. This wasn't one; I'm hooked on the Requiem and this is the book that did it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I Want More!, November 7, 2008
I'm really glad to write a good review for this book. I started reading thinking that it would be like another clan novel, bland, chock full of stuff I didn't quite understand and about as fun to read as playing in mud. I was happily mistaken!
I've never played Requiem, and I have limited knowledge of Masquerade, but I was able to enjoy this book regardless. The main attraction was the characters, although the plot as quite good as well. The characters were all fleshed out, I felt as though they could be actual people (or vampires, actually). They were all interesting, not the cliche vampires you'd see in a novel like Twilight. This book was the only World of Darkness book I've ever read that I couldn't put down. I highly recommend it, not only for gamers but for any fans of vampires that aren't `pretty' (yes, Twilight fans, I'm talking to you. ;D ).
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