Sarah Marques
Autor von LA Lengua Que Heredamos: Curso De Espanol Para Bilingues
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First Blood (The Vampire Musketeers) 2 Exemplare
O nascimento do alferes - RCB, 14 1 Exemplar
Inversos 1 Exemplar
Getagged
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- Werke
- 7
- Mitglieder
- 48
- Beliebtheit
- #325,720
- Bewertung
- 2.8
- Rezensionen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 9
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- 1
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I tell you what, Sword & Blood was exactly what I wanted to get from that book at that moment, - fast, easy, atmospheric, straightforward action flick, and I applaud Miss Marques for that. I had fun, I didn't get bored and I wanted to read more of this when I got to the last page.
This is basically one of popular interpretations of classics we see so often this days, in this case, Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. I love Dumas! I pretty much read all his books at some point in the past.
So what happens if you make vampires a scourge of the world, a disease like plague slowly taking over Europe? Across the Chanel in England there are riots and constant fighting, but in France cardinal Richelieu gets bitten, and between vampires and people a treaty gets drawn. All the churches are desecrated, priesthood is disbanded, musketeers can not grow over a fixed number unless one of them dies and gets replaced.... In turn vampires will only take the blood from the willing victims. Of course this is not the case.
At night Paris is filled with wraiths - old crazy vampires who feed mindlessly on anything that is alive, young and evil group of vamps grab whole families and drag to the churches to do a blood Mass - group feeding which either kills the victim or turns them into a vampire, and only musketeers patrolling the streets can save you.
On the night d'Artagnan comes to Paris Athos falls victim to one of the blood Masses by order of Milady, his ex-wife. Porthos and Aramis cover his ass while he struggles not to give in to his savage nature and typical vampire mass consciousness.
D'Artagnan accidentally gets caught in between battles with Cardinal's vampires, saving Athos, protecting one of the handmaidens/witches of the Queen, Constance de Bonacieux, and nefarious plans of Rochefort to use the boy in an ancient ritual of resurrecting a vampire God. You know, the usual.
It's fun, it's in a way playful and feels like a movie instead of a book. Aramis as usual is my favorite, but the rest of the characters are not bad as well, although Porthos hardly says anything during the whole book.
Otherwise, it's a great read, and I can't wait for the book #2 to come out this fall!… (mehr)