the 2nd Saint Germain book I've read recently. I enjoyed both of them hugely, these books are more historical fiction that about vampires, though Saint Germain has been a vampire for over 3500 years, living through many periods of history, and it is these periods of history taht Yarbro does extr...
Fans of Saint-Germain will be absolutely delighted at this addition to the saga of the legendary vampire. It is the year 535 AD and Saint-Germain, aka Zangi-Ragozh, is a successful merchant in China. Called to wait upon the Chinese Emperor, Zangi-Rogozh starts to cross China with a small caravan ...
A Mortal Glamour, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Juno Books, 2007Set in 14th Century France, times are hard at the convent La Tres Saunte Annunciacion. The plague has come, killing many of the area’s residents. The Catholic Church has two popes; one is in Rome, while the other rules from the French city o...
Night Blooming was definitely worthy of a 4.5 star rating.The most emphatic praise I have always credited to Yarbro is her historicity and attention to a historically accurate atmosphere, and in this yet again she did not disappoint. Her regard to the structure of the church in the era of Charlem...
It's hard to write good reviews for the books you like, because there's a strong tendency to fangirl and write a review that consists of "OMG! THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD!!1! RAGOCZY IS SO HAWT. ROWENA IS SO DUM. SHE TOTALLY DOESN'T DESERVE HIM! BUY IT!! OMG I LOVE YOU CHELSEA!!"I'll try to do the book ...
3.5 stars. This teeters on the edge of being a really good book, but then I'm a sucker for a lonely, brooding, good-guy vampire. It has elements of romance and the supernatural, but mostly it's historical fiction. Saint-Germain's supernatural characteristics are very low-key.This is the second of...
In Fiorenza in the time of the Medicis, Francesco Ragoczy da San Germano has commissioned the most unusual and opulent of palazzos. It has secret rooms where he may work his alchemy, and where he may truly refresh himself in sleep on a bed made from his homeland's soil. He often accompanies Loren...
I was intrigued by the cover of this Renaissance-set fantasy, but unfortunately it didn't live up to expectations. Split between 'reality' and 'fantasy', it follows the daydreams of the poet Ludovico Ariosto, who seeks to escape his mundane life through fantasies of being a great paladin among th...
Saint-Germain makes jewels (don't ask) for Ivan the Terrible in 16th century Russia.Not one of my favorites of the series. I enjoy these, but I need to remember to space them out because they all have pretty much the same plot transposed into a different setting. It's as if Saint-Germain is doome...
Adventures of the vampire Saint Germain in 10th century Germany, where he comes to the aid of people trying to defend their fortress against disease and marauders. It's hard to like the characters in this book, because the culture is superstitious, misogynistic, and brutal. (They execute one woma...
I had been looking forward to reading the story of the infamous Csimenae, the woman Saint-Germain saved by turning her into a vampire; she who rejected her maker's advice and his ethics and proceeded to create her own vampire army. But her story is rather pathetic, as is Saint-Germain's response ...
Horses? check. Capable determined young teenaged girl? check. Exciting appearances in the arenas of Rome? check. Yep, a book that might appeal to boys and girls alike, despite being written over 20 years ago.Set in the eastern portions of the Roman Empire during the reign of Nero, Four Horses for...
"To The High Redoubt is an engaging, epic fantasy adventure written by the creator of the widely-read series of novels about the immortal vampire known as Le Comte de Saint-Germain.In his quest for power, Bundhi, Lord of Darkness and stealer of souls, has taken family, vision and freedom from Sur...
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is best known for her suave, vampire-about-the-world Count Saint-Germain, but she is also an accomplished short fiction writer as well. Five Star is proud to present the best of her dark fantasy and horror fiction all in one collection. Featuring a brand-new short story, "Fug...
I am really enjoying these books about a 4000-year-old world-traveling good-guy vampire, even if the rather florid writing keeps me from actually recommending it to other people. If you like historical fiction and the idea of a kind-hearted vampire, and you don't mind some melodrama, you might li...
Rome is crumbling. The child-emperor, Heliogabalus, diverts the Roman populace with parties, circuses, and celebrations, while his mother and grandmother jockey for power behind the scenes. The government is riddled with scandal and no business is conducted without bribes which grow ever larger. ...
Count Saint Germaine continues his life as a vampire 4000 years old. He is living between France and Austria in 1817 after the Napolean has been defeated for the final time. He is accused of aiding robbers because he is a foreigner and goes out of his way to aid in their capture. Meanwhile, he...
"La maggior parte dei cadaveri giacevano presso i silos e i depositi del quartiere industriale dove i difensori, intrappolati tra i Vigilanti e il fiume Sacramento, avevano opposto l'ultima resistenza ed erano stati massacrati. Anche un certo numero di assalitori erano rimasti sul terreno, e Thea...
Saint Germain travels to 17th century Rome to help Niklos in a legal dispute over the property left to him by Atta Olivia Clemens. I like Niklos, and wish there had been more of him in this novel. It's a pretty typical entry in the Saint-Germain saga: nicely detailed historical fiction that's onl...
(As posted on my blog, see "Book Blog" dated July 8, 2011)In this novel, Yarbro has taken a historical person, Count of Saint Germain, and written him as a heroic vampire. Hôtel Transylvania is also a real place. As Yarbro writes in her notes at the end of the novel, "Built in the reign of Loius ...
Since there are so few reviews I feel I should add one. Lets see, book published 1981 and the stage is set 1991 ish. There is no mention of internet or cellphones xD. Apparently 1991 we are suffering from serious overpopulation largely due to having no disease. We can cure almost anything. Cancer...
A deadly plague caused by a laboratory accident spreads rapidly, and the only hope for a cure lies with the few who have survived the disease, but the survivors have mysteriously disappeared.
Nebula Award-winning author Pamela Sargent has won much acclaim for the range and quality of her writing. Her novels and stories have been praised as alive with humanity, moving, and memorable by Locus, while Publishers Weekly calls her a sensitive writer of characterization and the Washington Po...
Featuring the most intriguing sleuth to come along since Sherlock Holmes, and a supporting cast whose loyalty and intelligence are matched only by their humor and quick reaction times, the Mycroft Holmes novels appeal to new readers and to fans of all things Holmesian.In The Scottish Ploy, seemin...
Surely you did not sneak out of Vaclav Castle, did you? Your note said only that you would be coming here clandestinely: how does it come about?” Rakoczy asked Imbolya as they hastily climbed toward the warder’s quarters in the gate-house, he leading but facing her, so that he moved backward up t...
April 3rd, 1950 Dear Cousin Moira, Sorry to hear that your husband is in the hospital. Tim’s had a horrible five years, hasn’t he? What a sad thing that is, you being in a foreign country and all. Do the doctors think he’s going to have more seizures? Do you know what caused it? And in the car, t...
The air was hot and still and not even the fountain that spurted perfumed water lessened the hammerlike force of the sun. The two brothers lounged there, the older one nude, the younger in a short tunic of thin cotton. The family resemblance was strong, though Titus Flaviu...
The Mansion Hotel Santa Fe, New Mexico USA 10 August, 1971 New Townsend Road Hobart, Tasmania Dear James: Your letter reached me at last, and I am sorry to be so long in replying, though there is little I can say to you that will comfort you. Sadly, it is one of the burdens shared by thos...
Victoire told her husband and Fouche the next morning. She was astonished at the intensity of the revulsion that went through her at the mention of his name. He was the last of the prisoners she had been asked to try to identify, and when she caught sight of him a hard fist closed in her chest. S...
He was wearing yet another set of pyjamas, this one in a rich bronze shade the color of lamplight; his boots were also new, of tooled, dark-red leather that reached to his calves; they were handsome but lacked the earth-filled soles he craved, and his right foot remained painful and tender. "Ho...
I exclaimed as I entered Mycroft Holmes’ compartment in the first car of the train. “And only one a copy of the one he sent to Bedford.” “Matters must be moving more swiftly than I anticipated,” Holmes said, worry making his face more serious. “Or t...
Ninianee and Erianthee, the daughters of Duez Nimuar of Vildecaz, have unusual magical talents: Ninianee has a close relationship with animals, Erianthee can summon up the Spirits of the Air to take on human form and act out legends and myths. When Erianthee is summoned to...
Meanwhile, in her searches for possible clues to Duz Nimuar's location and condition, Ninianee has come upon something that sends her and her partner, Doms Guyon, back toward Vildecaz, But both sisters find their travels marked by hindrances and unexpected difficulties. When they finally arri...
Tens of thousands of Catholics, non-Catholics, anti-Catholics, the crazed and the curious had turned out to catch a glimpse of the woman from China. Several vocal minorities shouted slogans against the new Pope, calling her Antichrist and Whore of Babylon, Communist and Subversive. A few smaller,...
DR. SMITH SNAPPED at the intern. “He’s dead.” Angrily he jerked the feeder lines from the support module, bitter exhaustion showing in his face. Another dead kid. “But what happened?” asked the intern. He was both hurt by the death of the child and frustrated by how little had been authorized to ...
The waning moon, tumbling through thickening clouds in the western sky, limned the old monastery with an eerie, nacreous shine when it broke out of them. Approaching the southern gate in the darkness of night’s end, da San-Germain felt a rush of consternation mixed with anger. That Madelaine shou...
"So I fear I will have to depend upon you and Madame Svarinskaya to treat all our patients, or close the doors to new patients until I am able to rejoin you." "I shall have Hroger bring you willow-bark tea, and a pastille of minced orange rinds." He did a rapid surveillance of the room. "Shall I...
“What is that?” she asked uneasily. Now that her time with him was coming to an end, she felt more and more separated from him; she glanced toward the glass-covered window, and beyond, the harvesters in the fields teased by a fainéant wind. “It is for you, so that you can ...
said Mycroft Holmes the next morning as he arrived at the chamber of Solicitor James about twenty minutes after I had sent word through James that it was urgent I see him. “I would have been here earlier, but I did not want to attract any undue attention to our meeting here. And I was inconvenien...
It was becoming difficult to see the creases and irregularities in the face of the canyon walls. “They can’t be far ahead,” Murat said to Victoire. “Unless they are behind us,” she suggested. “No,” Roustam-Raza declared. “I would have seen them. They are ahead of us still.” He lowered his voice. ...
I countered, hastily closing the door behind me. “What are you doing here?” A woman who was an accomplished assassin and operative for the mysterious Golden Lodge did not do many things by happenstance, and certainly not at the Swiss embassy during private meetings between the English and the Jap...