![]() ![]() ![]() While there is certainly enough going on here to make Hotel Transylvania a stand-alone novel in itself, it’s obvious that Yarbro was gearing up to make Saint-Germain into a series character, and so many passages in the book have the sense of being a setup for a larger picture. However, the horror elements find their way into the book in a subplot involving the renewal of a thirty-year-old enmity between Saint-Germain and another French petty noble, Saint Sebastien. Madelaine’s reaction to Saint-Germain’s rather bizarre history isn’t the usual fainting-and-horrified-looks one expects in a vampire novel, and thus the framework here lends itself more to gothic romance than it does to straight-out horror. The series’ first novel in set in France in 1743, as Saint-Germain meets one of the great loves of his life, Madelaine de Montalia. The whole series is well-known for its attention to detail and stunning descriptions of life at the various times and in the various places where Saint-Germain (and the main characters in the spinoff series that have sprung from this) has his adventures. ![]() Nothing has brough her more success, or a wider readership, than the Comte de Saint-Germain chronicles, a series of books about an ageless vampire set against different timeframes. “I’m not hungry right now…just a light snack will do.”Ĭhelsea Quinn Yarbro has been doing her thing for quite a while now, and doing it rather successfully. ![]()
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