Clay Griffith
Paperback | Pages: 303 pages Rating: 3.81 | 5226 Users | 783 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire #1) |
| Author | : | Clay Griffith |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 303 pages |
| Published | : | November 18th 2010 by Pyr (first published November 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Steampunk. Paranormal. Vampires. Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Romance |
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Rousing pulp action and steampunk come together in a heartbreaking story of high adventure and alternate history. In the year 1870, a horrible plague of vampires swept over the northern regions of the world. It is now 2020 and a bloody reckoning is coming. Princess Adele is heir to the Empire of Equatoria, a remnant of the old tropical British Empire. When she becomes the target of a merciless vampire clan, her only protector is the Greyfriar, a mysterious hero who fights the vampires from deep within their territory. Their dangerous relationship plays out against an approaching war to the death between humankind and the vampire clans. The first book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternate history. Combining rousing pulp action with steampunk style, the Vampire Empire series brings epic political themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism.Itemize Books In Pursuance Of The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire #1)
| ISBN: | 1616142472 (ISBN13: 9781616142476) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.facebook.com/vampireempire |
| Series: | Vampire Empire #1 |
Rating Regarding Books The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire #1)
Ratings: 3.81 From 5226 Users | 783 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire #1)
The Greyfriar3.5 StarsA well written story although the world building is quite dense and requires patience to wade through. The synthesis of post-apocalyptic, steampunk and vampiric elements is compelling as is the original take on vampires rising up against humanity and subjugating those who once oppressed them. The descriptions of the vampires' cruel domination are particularly gruesome and horrifying yet the authors still manage to convey that there are two sides to every conflict.Love a book with a good strong name. The greyfriar, rolls off your tongue nicely doesn't it.This is gonna be a short review. Hello? Five stars should speak for itself. I want to highlight a few key things that blew me away.1: Not only is this a fantastical tale to work them poor missused brain muscles, but it is truly great literature. Not overly so. Will not bore you to tears. I promise.2: I don't know about you, but I hate characters with no follow through. Authors have a tendancy to write
Update- Book 2 is The Rift Walker (Vampire Empire, #2), it will come out in September 2011, Yeah!!!Review is still below: :) The rambling review of a book fanaticI finished the book and I hugged it. Yup, Im gonna admit it. I hugged the book. It was THAT good. You are going to have many reviews for this book that will do an awesome job of detailing what the book is about and they will do a much better job of explaining the story. Therefore, I am going to do a funky bullet point list of what I
Prolly better than a 2* star rating but not really my genre so it gets 2.5 rounded down.Whats it about then?Girl Human meets Boy Vampire = Forbidden Love. The End....It starts of well, with the premise of fallen empires, now overrun by vampires with the remnants of the great empires residing in their former colonial lands about the equator. The main empires being the British, run by world WWI style generals & the Americans led by General George Custer lookalikes which is all good, they said
Note: I received a review copy of this book compliments of the publisher, in exchange for my honest opinions. Thanks, Pyr/Prometheus Books!Vampires and steampunk! The former, obviously, is a topic that's been wildly popular for years and years. The latter, as well, has been a subgenre gaining more traction in the science fiction and fantasy world lately, hence the fact that I would finally stumble across a book which unites both concepts in the foundation for its story was only a matter of time!
The human world has been nearly destroyed by a great vampire killing war. Humans are living in small closed communities along the equator. A princess from one of the larger settlements is to marry the Butcher an American Vampire Hunter to unite the two nations into one giant campaign to end the Vampires world dominance. Her visit to neighboring towns goes terribly wrong when her ships are attacked and she is taken hostage. Greyfrair, a legend among humans tries to save her and the empires future
This is a book with a lot of buzz and good reviews, and the novel has some nice things going for it. The pace is frenetic; the action starts in the first chapter and rarely tapers off. The setting is creative and it's fun to think about the world the Griffiths have created. Basing humanity in the tropics was a stroke of world-building genius. But there are significant problems with the setting, plot, and characters.Character: The characters are really one-dimensional. Adele is yet another form
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