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Title | A Stirring of Dust
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Author | Susan Sizemore
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Publisher | Boulevard Books - 1997
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First Printing | Boulevard Books - 1997
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Title | Intimations of Mortality
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Author | Susan M. Garrett
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Title | These Our Revels
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Author | Ann Hathaway-Nayne
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Publisher | Boulevard Books - 1997
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First Printing | Boulevard Books - 1997
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Category | TV-Spinoffs
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Nicholas Knight, Lucien Lacroix, Janette DuCharme, Javier Vachon, Screed, Tracy Vetter, Nathalie Lambert
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Main Elements | Vampires
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 A Stirring of Dust
He has walked the night beat for centuries. He is one of the finest homicide detectives in Toronto. But Nick Knight wishes he could shed the curse of his true calling. The burn of the thirst. The thrill of the kill. The endless nights longing to be human...and not a vampire.
The murder victims were found decapitated. At first Nick suspected a man newly released from prison who had killed his wife the same way. But now he must consider another, more horrifying possibility - that one of his own kind is responsible for such grisly handiwork. An inhuman monster with a centuries-old score to settle with Nick Knight...
These Our Revels
He has walked the night beat for centuries. His one of the finest homicide detectives in Toronto. But Nick Knight wishes he could shed the curse of his true calling. The burn of the thirst. The thrill of the kill. Then endless nights longing to be human...and not a vampire.
It's midsummer of 1559, and the dashing Nicholas Chevalier is having the time of his immortal life, acting in the company of his friend Will Shakespeare. But pretending to be human - on stage and off - will have devastating effects.
A tortured woman involved with the famous playwright forces Nick to question his vampire life in a way that will affect everyone around him, mortal and immortal. And in another part of the city, a ship has landed, bringing one Javier Vachon, and his new companion Screed, whose clumsy deeds threaten to reveal the vampire community to the world...
The television series was cancelled years ago, so it was nice to revisit with Nick and company, though I would have prefered it to have taken place in the first or second season, I much prefered Nick's first partner over Tracy. Ah well.
To those who haven't watched the series, I supposed you'll still be able to enjoy this book, things tended to get explained well with enough background filled it, but I'd definitely recommend watching the show to catch the nuances of the characters you learn to love. The first season is available on DVD as of this writing.
Keeping in mind that I haven't seen the series in a while, I found that the characters were faithfully portrayed, and I must admit a little pleasure in getting inside of LaCroix's head. Even down to having flashbacks to an earlier time, an important characteristic of the TV series that shouldn't be left out.
Another thing to keep in mind, it that this book is based on an already created "World". This limits the author by already setting up the premise for her, and also limits the outcome. Like in other books based on pre-existing worlds, there is little character development, and everything is neatly cleaned up at the end. If the author were to try to bend the rules a little, fans would be in an uproar over any little detail that didn't fit in with the original storyline of the series. Kind of like a Star Trek episode, where sure, a few guys in red get killed, but in the end, everything is pretty much the way it started. So the book's good, but nothing special.
Ah, and my final advice? Buy the book with your eyes closed. Could they have possibly picked a worse picture to put on the cover!?
January 2024
It has been nearly exactly a two decade search, but finally I discovered another of the Forever Knight novels, this one available on OpenLibrary. It has been a really really long time since I've seen the show, and I kind of missed the fact that this one had pretty well nothing to do with Toronto or homicide detectives, but I still enjoyed rubbing shoulders with William Shakespeare, though the book took me longer than usual to read given the all the dialog was time period appropriate! I've read another series with Shakespeare had encounters with faeries, why not with vampires? Though he was forbidden to write about them. We also get to meet Vachon, he's nearly newly turned and like Lestat in Interview with a Vampire, clueless of the rules, much to the consternation of the older vampires. Lacroix is, well, Lacroix, no matter the time or place, and Jeanette plays a major role as well. I really enjoyed my trip down memory lane, I should pull out the DVD's of the first two seasons (sorry Vachon, I never managed to get the third). Its one of those shows I'm fond of, and I've even had dreams where the show is back on TV and I'm running about trying to find a VHS tape to record it on. Yeah, that was a long time ago...
Hopefully it won't take another 20 years before I get the chance to read Intimations of Mortality!
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