Vampire: The Masquerade: Ventrue

    (Moonstone, 2003)
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Moonstone’s second installment in the Vampire: The Masquerade series (based on the role-playing game by White Wolf) is the chilling Ventrue. Like Nosferatu before it, Ventrue is devoted to giving readers an inside glimpse of a particular clan. Clan Ventrue is the aristocratic, ruthlessly business–minded clan, and this story gives readers pieces of their mind-set without taking their traditional blue–blood elements over the top.

There is a welcome and well–done element of mystery throughout Rafael Nieves’ story, as the reader is kept in the dark as to the identity of the vampires. Until the last few pages, it’s not revealed who is mortal and who is undead. Of course, this mystery also keeps the reader off–balance and unsure about the unfolding event—does Chris know that his boss at the Sanger Corporation has a body hanging behind his office door? Who made a meal of the liquor store owner?

This book is definitely for mature readers and contains adult language and several adult themes. Role–players may want to see the Clans represented with more over–the–top elements, like more aristocracy and even more blue-blood influences, but non–role–players and comics fans will enjoy the good old-fashioned chill that will run up their spines.

— Karen O’Brien
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1 copy available for $94.99 		Rafael NievesAndy Bennett