Genevieve is a young girl turned vampire many yeas ago. We follow her through different periods of time in the Empire, and experience her relations wither different prominent characters as they progress through a lifetime for men, but a single night for a vampire. When you read the book you will have to abstract from the fact, that vampires live side by side with humans in the Empire, which threw me off a bit. I know of a group of adventures, that would have attacked the bloodsucker right on the spot, and have thier butts kicked, if they met a vampire during night in Altdorf.
The book has an exciting mix of plots, an quite a few very good ideas. Disappointingly, though, it is quite poorly written. It took me many long nights to get through this book (but what matters time for a vampire, right?), which actually had the potential to be something special, but just did not do it for me. It was like the stories never came to life (yet another vampire joke, sorry), and I repeatedly lost interest in it. More than once I considered giving up and start reading another book.
Overall a disappointment, in my opinion, despite the brilliant and intriguing composition and some hint of reference to Anne Rice’s narrative style. I have seen af other reviews, that disapproves of the novel, but somehow it is still quite popular. My guess for the reason behind this, it the facts that it features a young, blond and lusty vampire girl as its main character.
