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Smoke and Shadows (The Smoke Trilogy, Book 1) Mass Market Paperback – April 5, 2005

by Tanya Huff (Author)

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Book 1 of 3 in the Darkest Night Series

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Tanya Huff’s supernatural fantasy Smoke series, with a gothic twist • Mix of ghostly mystery, paranormal horror, and dark humor • Lamba Award nominated

Fans of the X-Files and Twin Peaks will love acclaimed master of contemporary fantasy Tanya Huff’s twisted version of vampires, wizards, and TV terror.

When Tony Foster relocated to Vancouver with his vampire Henry Fitzroy, he knew it was his chance to get his act together. In an example of art echoing life, Tony landed a job as production assistant for the syndicated TV show Darkest Night, a series about a vampire detective. And except for his unrequited crush on the show’s handsome costar, Lee Nicholas, Tony was pretty content.

Until everything started to fall apart on the set.

It began with shadows—shadows where they didn’t belong, that almost had an existence of their own. Tony tried to ignore it—until he found Nikki Waugh’s body, and felt the shadow’s touch, and a stunt crash went wrong for no discernible reason—and Tony knew that he had to find out what was threatening everyone on the set.

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Lights, camera and action take a backseat to slippery shadows, snappy dialogue and an overwrought hybrid fantasy/SF plot in Canadian author Huff's alternately clever and annoying blend of farce, mystery and magic, the first in a trilogy. In this spinoff from the author's five-volume series (Blood Price, etc.) featuring vampire Henry Fitzroy, Fitzroy's streetwise ex-lover, Tony Foster, has moved with Fitzroy to Vancouver to study film. Now the set production assistant on CB Production's Darkest Night (think Angel), Foster pines for one of the hunky (alas, heterosexual) co-stars and dreams of being a director. When an actress is murdered under very "shadowy" circumstances, it turns out to have been done by a minion of a Shadowlord who slipped through a "gate" near the show's soundstage originally opened by Arra Pelindrake, a special effects wizard who also happens to be, well, a different sort of wizard on another world. Foster, Pelindrake and Fitzroy join forces to kill other minions sent to take over Earth and destroy Pelindrake, the Shadowlord's archenemy. The proceedings are enlivened with campy comments ("a world where Joss Whedon got canceled was exactly the kind of world where the Shadowlord could win"), but it's not enough to save an overextended plot light on substance and heavy with fang-in-cheek fun.
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Four-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy is trying to maintain a friendship with Tony Foster, a young man he rescued from the streets and used to drink blood from. Tony is now a production assistant for the syndicated show Darkest Night, where he has just discovered the dead body of the guest star. Tony fears it has something to do with the strange shadows he has seen around the studio, and his suspicions are confirmed when one shadow takes over the body of one of the show's stars. Tony turns to special-effects wizard Arra Pelindrake, who turns out to be a real wizard. She knows what the shadows are but is reluctant to help him, so Tony calls on Henry. Together, they persuade Arra to cooperate but can't get her to face down the shadows, with whom Tony and Henry are already being drawn into battle, for the shadows are intent on gaining a foothold in this world. An exciting, creepy adventure from a popular author. Kristine Huntley
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Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: DAW (April 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0756402638
ISBN-13: 978-0756402631
Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 1.1 x 6.9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
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flawed

ByFurioon March 27, 2007

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It is not easy to fathom what exactly is wrong with this novel.

Some reviewers complained about the constant pop culture references, unintelligible unless you have watched a lot of TV, but this is just a minor point: people who do not watch television often may miss the full edge of the puns, but they will still understand that they are faced with a pun.

Other reviewers seem to be complaining about the explicit slash content, the main character, Tony, being explicitly gay. To those I can only say:"Grow up!"
Nobody has to agree perforce to homosexuality in the fiction one reads, but if one does not, it would be best to simply say so, not making excuses. After all gay readers, up to a couple of years ago, had to relate perforce to straight characters only. I make a point of always saying in my reviews if a book has gay content so that one can skip it.

Back to the book.

Characters are likeable, a little sketchy, but this being an entertainment series one supposes they will get more depth along the way. One supposes, but still a little more depth... more attention to Tony's heartaches for example, to Henry's scruples?
The TV setting is allright, full of possibilities and potential.
In my opinion it is the script which sucks (hey, read a couple of Tony's lines and you will slang yourself silly before you realise it).

Whole paragraphs at a time are unfinished, clumsy. This makes the reading more difficult, less enjoyable, slow. You do not want slow when reading fantasy, unless it is gorgeous writing.
There being many other paragraphs perfectly good one has to suppose a lack of concentration, hurry or both.

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Smoke and Shadows

ByAmazon Customeron September 21, 2012

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Tanya Huff has once again combined the story of an everyman with the bizarre and thrilling underworld of sci-fi fantasy. Tony has all he can do to keep himself together when a wholly unexpected thing happens...shadows moving with their own volition. As he delves into this mystery the bodies start piling up and the mystery becomes more deadly by the hour. Every twelve hours you follow Tony's desperate attempts to stem the madness and shadows pouring between the world of sci-fi unrealistic TV and the threat of the Shadowland and it's Lord of shadows.It was a suspenseful ride along the fantasy highway and another great read from our favorite Canadian author. GO Tanya!

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Truly Smoke and Shadows - all fluff

ByIdaho buyeron August 9, 2016

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I did want to like this offshoot of the Bloodbooks Trilogy. No go. Writing seems manufactured. Characters didn't appeal - Henry was marginalized (how can you do that to Henry the Eighth's Bastard Vampire son?). Will not be reading more in this series.

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Tony adventure not Henry

ByVickie L. Piriczkyon August 24, 2010

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It's hard to believe that this lame novel is written by the same author as the "Blood Books". When I read them, I stayed up all night to finish each one and when they ended I said, "Why?" The author must have heard that a lot and so these books were created to fill the request for more. However when I started reading this book I said, " Why", many times, except it meant, "Why am I reading this?" I made it through the middle of the book and looked at the ending and threw it in the recycling bin. I realize a vampire needs a day person to be effective on tracking whatever he's chasing, but Tony is more of a main character and a lame one I don't care about that kept me rooting for the shadows to win.

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You're a Wizard Tony!

BySarah M. Schaefferon February 28, 2015

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Tanya Huff is an amazing author, and the Tony Foster books are proof positive. Some of her work is more serious than others, while these books are full of sarcastic, sometimes dark humor. The genre is urban fantasy with the hero being gay and one of my favorite leading men. Please, give these entertaining books a go and ENJOY THE FUN RIDE! :3

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Everything but the kitchen sink...

ByMichael Valdivielsoon July 17, 2005

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Tony Foster and Henry Fitzroy had dealt with a lot of problems in their time together. Ghosts, mummies, the undead. So to Tony working on the set of a syndicated TV show called Darkest Night was weird, but not as weird as real life. Tony has had almost everything thrown at him at one time or another. Nothing could knock him off balance...

Not until the shadows on the studio started to move on their own - and started to kill people.

Now Tony has to deal with a invasion from another world by creatures of shadow. But lucky for him Henry, being a vampire, is also a creature of shadow.

Cool new start to a new vampire series by Tanya Huff. And CB remains me of the character of Nero Wolfe (in some ways).

Nice cover too!

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Fantasy satire at it's most enjoyable

ByDan S.on September 9, 2005

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Tanya Huff continues her exploration of classic modern Fantasy/Horror genres in this very entertaining novel.

Tony Foster, who was a bit of a wallflower character in her Blood novels has graduated to protagonist. He now lives apart from vampire/romance writer Henry Fitzroy and, irony of ironies, works as a TV production assistant on Huff's send-off to the classic syndicated vampire gumshoe series "Forever Knight".

As "Victory" Nelson and Michael Cellucci learned in the Blood novels, once you've gotten entangled in supernatural things, they just keep coming back to haunt you.

Hence, poor Tony, whose biggest problem is his crush on the show's handsome costar Lee Nicholas (who also seems oddly interested in Tony despite his apparent heterosexuality) finds himself at ground zero of an invasion from a world a bit more entrenched in the fantasy genre than Tony's own.

Being just a production assistant, Tony pulls the "I've got a vampire at my side and I'm not afraid to use him!" card. Together with the show's special effects wizard, who really is a wizard from the world that now threatens them, they act to resist the invasion.

The jokes are often hillarious and the dialogue, rather than the plot is what I found entertaining. Huff also clearly did her homework on how television sets work, because her attention to detail made the set of "Darkest Night" very easy to visualize. All in all an excellent recreational read.

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Five Stars

love it Huff is all-ways good!Read more

Published 10 months ago by Amazon Customer

A spin off series that is (imho) better than the original

A spin off series that is (imho) better than the original. Henry us back, but not the focal. Tony Foster is great.Read more

Published 1 year ago by Wedge3163

LOVE this series

This entire trilogy is genius. It falls under that odd category that, when you read the description you think, "...well, that sounds kind of corny...Read more

Published on March 30, 2014 by FictionReborn

A little hard to keep up with, but intriguing series intro

I never cared much for Tony in the previous series (Blood Series). I didn't dislike him, but just didn't pay much mind to the minor character.Read more

Published on September 20, 2013 by Paperbackstash

Another gem

Ms Huff is one of the best authors out there for this genre...I love the concept of reading 'serials'.Read more

Published on July 24, 2013 by Ablesd1

Could've been better

This review contains reviews for all three books in the series, though the rating is only for the individual book.Read more

Published on June 14, 2013 by rantboi

good read

I like the characters and the rather unlikely hero. The plot kept me engaged, but it did remind me a lot of "And then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.Read more

Published on January 10, 2013 by Virginia Dodson

always fun

Read her vicki nelson books after watching the short lived tv series, blood ties. tony is not in the show, but these books are so fun that doesn‘t matter.Read more

Published on October 11, 2012 by queenkatherine17

FINALLY ON KINDLE!

How thrilled am I that this series is finally available on Kindle? This trilogy is my favorite of Tanya's books, and more than likely among my top favorite books of all time.Read more

Published on January 23, 2012 by Newcrusader

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