When a master story teller like our own StarFields takes on the vampire myth, you can be assured of something amazing happening in the fusion.
D. McClaughlin
When a master story teller like our own StarFields takes on the vampire myth, you can be assured of something amazing happening in the fusion.
Vampire Solstice is an extraordinary book.
The vampires are right here. They are amongst us, and they are closer than ever before.
We learn about their society in first hand accounts that are alien, sensuous and delightful all at once, and just like the human potentials in the story, we become drawn towards, as irresistibly as a moth will be drawn to a flame. It is in that immersion in their alien society, with their own laws of conduct (and what laws they are!) that we begin a journey of discovery about our own kind, all the same.
As we experience the events that lead up to the Festival of Blessings, we meet some of the most extraordinary characters the vampire genre has ever seen. Lady Adela Bach, who has forests in her trail; Mark Edwards, the essence of Peter Pan; Gaius Levinius, the ancient law maker and of course, the Lady Valia, the oldest vampire still to walk the Earth, and her consort, Prince Meruvian. StarFields has made these and the other unforgettable characters come to life in rich and extraordinary detail; there are images and events evoked here that will remain with reader - possibly forever.
An extraordinary read, an extraordinary cast, a fantastic sequence of events, a story that never loses its pace, its excitement and forward momentum as we are moving towards the cataclysm that is Vampire Solstice, the Festival of Blessings – this is a book you will want to read again, and again.
Highly recommended.
D. McClaughlin
