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Back by popular demand! The omnibus edition of Jack Yeovil's four classic Vampire Genevieve novels: Drachenfels, Genevieve Undead, Beasts in Velvet and Silver Nails.
- Sales Rank: #316211 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Games Workshop
- Published on: 2008-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.70" h x 5.00" w x 7.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 763 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
Kim Newman is always a treat - The Guardian Engaging, breathlessly clever - SFX Strong and highly atmospheric fantasy - Starlog Jack Yeovil keeps up the high standard of excitement and entertainment - Enigma Most imaginitive writing; recommended - Interzone Yeovil excels at the macabre and grotesque - rpg.net Yeovil delivers a tale with bite and just a little humour that will keep you gripped from the moment you enter his world until you're spat out breathless and hungry for more at the end - Enigma
About the Author
Kim Newman is a multi award-winning, best-selling horror novelist and an enthusiastic pundit of sf writing. He is well-known for film and TV critiques, and is often described as one of Britain’s great eccentrics.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Read it like a single novel
By Amazon Customer
"The Vampire Genevieve" is an omnibus collections of Kim Newman's 4 Warhammer books. The title is actually misleading. Genevieve in not the dominant character in any of the stories in the volume and is completely absent from a number of them. The title is mostly for marketing: implying that the main character is a sexy, beautiful butt-kicking vampire helps sell books to the targeted readers, I guess.
Having said that, the book is quite good. It definitely deserves a much wider audience than the Warhammer readership it's targeted to. If you have read any of Newman's other books and liked them, you'll definitely have a lot of fun with this volume.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
Drachenfels (novel)
-- Prologue: 25 Years Ago
-- Acts 1-5
-- Epilogue: Envoi
Genevieve Undead (3 novellas)
-- Part 1. Stage Blood
-- Part 2. The Cold Stark House
-- Part 3. Unicorn Ivory
Beasts in Velvet (novel)
Silver Nails (5 short stories/novellas)
-- Red Thirst
-- No Gold in the Grey Mountains
-- The Ignorant Armies
-- The Warhawk
-- The Ibby the Fish Factor
In this book, there are various stories thrown together which happening at differnt times in the internal chronology. Here is my suggestion: read the stories in the order of the internal chronolgy rather than the order in the book. If you do this, it actually kind of hangs together and kind of feels like a single sprawling novel with various subplots rather than just bunch of loosely-connected stories.
The following is the order that the events happen in the volume:
-- Drachenfels: Prologue: 25 Years Ago
-- Silver Nails: Red Thirst
-- Silver Nails: No Gold in the Grey Mountains
-- Drachenfels: Acts 1-5
-- Drachenfels: Epilogue: Envoi
-- Silver Nails: The Ignorant Armies
-- Beasts in Velvet
-- Genevieve Undead: Part 1. Stage Blood
-- Silver Nails: The Warhawk
-- Genevieve Undead: Part 2. The Cold Stark House
-- Genevieve Undead: Part 3. Unicorn Ivory
-- Silver Nails: The Ibby the Fish Factor
[ As a side note: Be aware that if you've read Newman's Diogenes Club stories or Anno Dracula novels, you may be dissappointed with the Genevieve portrayed here. The versions of Genevieve Dieudonne in those other works comes accross as very worldly and confident -- a strong and distinctive character. I found the Warhammer-universe Genevieve in this book actually rather passive most of the time and doesn't particularly stand out a distinctive personality. But maybe others will disagree with me... ]
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Vampire stories without any real vampirism in them
By KSABER
"The Vampire Genevieve" is a collection of novels and stories written by Kim Newman, the author of "Anno Dracula", "Bloodred Baron" and "Dracula Cha Cha Cha". It is set in the Old World, the setting of Warhammer Fantasy tabletop games.
When it comes to writing modern vampire tales, mister Newman deserves the title of grandmaster. His style is both ornate and easy to read, his plots are complex and engaging, and his ironic humor and real-life references add an unique flavor to his works that I can describe only as "Newmaneskue". Perhaps the most glaring thing about mister Newman's writing is his expert use of flamboyant, deliberately silly characters. "The Vampire Genevieve" is full of such personas and, depending on your disposition, each can be viewed as either lovable or absurd. The writer knows this, and offers no apology. In other words, he doesn't explain the joke - you either get it, or you don't.
Drachenfels - 4 Stars - As the author himself states in the introduction, Drachenfels is a deconstruction of that most classical of tales; a hero and his darling embark on an epic quest to destroy an evil sorcerer. Except that the entire quest is just a prologue, and the main story deals with what happens twenty five years later, when the said hero commissions a theatric adaptation of his epic deed. The best part of the novel lies in its delightfully one-sided and deliberately self-parodying characters. Not for a moment do we believe that real human beings can be as self-loving as Detlef Sierck, as mindlessly mean as Lilli Nissen, as villainous as Constant Drachenfels, or as noire as Anton Veidt. Yet they work so well within the context of the story that we can't help but enjoy every moment we spend with them. While above-average, Drachenfels is not a perfect novel. Its shortcomings lie in the wrong presentation of the setting (vampires and even chaos mutants are allowed to live unopposed in human cities), as well as a sudden decline in Detlef Sierck's personality traits - about halfway into the book, he stops being a lovable egomaniac and becomes more-or-less faceless. Another problem is the presentation of Genevieve's vampirism and its overall significance (more on that later).
Genevieve Undead - 4 Stars - This is a collection of three novellas; "Stage Blood", "The Cold Stark House" and "Unicorn Ivory".
"Stage Blood" is a sequel to "Drachenfels". It tells the tale of the Great Enchanter's posthumous revenge on Genevieve and Detlef. It's a great story; well thought out, fast paced and very entertaining. It is dominated by the villain (an authentically soulless being) and its polar opposite - the trapdoor demon. Although Detlef's narcissism is still nowhere to be found, his character has gained much depth, going a long way towards making the reader care about him. I disliked the entire "Genevieve's influence creating a darkness in Detlef's soul" theme - I felt it was convulsed and rushed.
,,The Cold Stark House" is a weird tale about a cursed manor and its insane inhabitants. Throughout the novella, you'll be wondering what the hell is going on, until the truth is revealed and all the crazy events start to make sense. The story was too drawn out for my taste, often bombarding the reader with unimportant names, titles and backgrounds. Also, why Genevieve bothers rescuing a pair of complete strangers (she never even talked to either one of them) is a mystery.
"Unicorn Ivory" is the shortest of the three novellas. Genevieve is blackmailed into agreeing to assassinate a powerful graf and his son. In order to make their deaths appear accidental, she infiltrates their household and is soon pulled into a web of lies and family secrets.
[ SPOILERS START HERE ]The problem with "Unicorn Ivory" is that its main villain isn't nearly as evil as the writer is trying to make him. Okay, graf Rudiger loves to hunt for fun and acts semi-harsh to his son - that's bad by 21st century standards, but it was really nothing out of the ordinary in ancient times. He supposedly hates women and has killed his wife because she cheated on him with his best friend - this should make us hate him, but it doesn't. The thing is, the graf still keeps his wife's portrait in his dining hall and all his mistresses resemble her - meaning that the graf truly loved his wife and probably still does. Thus, he becomes a tragic, pitiable villain whose only real crime was an impulsive act of a cheated lover, rather then cold blooded murder. That the graf can forgive his friend, and then go on to raise his friend's bastard son as his own, shows he has a lot more heart then we're pushed to believe. The writer obviously wants us to loathe Rudiger, going so far as to turn him into a complete monster that kills its best friend because of a vague assumption (this part of the story is both rushed and far-fetched - basically, Rudiger manages to fetch the trophy horn, kill two people in a very messy way, and wipe the blood off himself before the extremely-fast Genevieve catches up with him). Overall, Rudiger feels like a complex antihero who has been transformed into a brainless villain for the sake of the plot. That Genevieve, who has had terrible things done to her by characters much worse then Rudiger, apparently hates the graf way more then she did Drachenfels is not only ridiculous, but contrary to her personality, too. [ SPOILERS END HERE ]
Beasts in Velvet - 4 Stars for the story, 1 Star for the false advertising - First off, this novel is not a vampire story. Genevieve has nothing whatsoever to do with the plot and only appears in a cameo. As such, "Beasts in Velvet" has no reason to be in a "The Vampire Genevieve" collection. It's just plain dishonest marketing.
That being said, "Beasts in Velvet" is an enjoyable, fast-paced mystery novel. A serial killer known as the Beast is on the loose, and evidence suggest he/she/it is an aristocrat. A group of revolutionists sparks a civil uprising in Altdorf, throwing the city into chaos during the "worst fog ever to fall on Altdorf". The murderer's identity managed to be both predictable (there are dead giveaways in the first chapter) and shocking (the killer's true nature WILL surprise you). Rosanna's scrying is an exotic and important part of the story - sadly, its efficiency varies depending on the needs of the plot [SPOILER - she can basically read people's minds and feel their emotions, and yet she spends an entire night in the close proximity of the Beast and doesn't notice a thing - SPOILER].
Silver Nails - 3 Stars - A collection of five short stories. The titular bloodsucker appears in only two out of four stories. "Silver Nails" creates some embarrassing contradictions; in "Drachenfels" it's stated that lady Melissa has been in the convent of the Order of Eternal Night and Solace so long that she has no clue on what's going on in the outside world, while in "Silver Nails" she's traveling near the fortress of the Great Enchanter. Also, if Genevieve knew about the true nature of Yefimovich, why didn't she try to stop him in "Beasts in Velvet"? "Ibby the Fish Factor", while entertaining, has such an incoherent finale that I can only shrug and forget I ever read it. "Silver Nails" is an overall okay short story quartet, but not nearly as good as the rest of "The Vampire Genevieve" collection.
For me, the greatest flaw of "The Vampire Genevieve" collection is the idealized way in which it depicts vampirism. Genevieve isn't damaged by sunlight, doesn't have to drink blood often, doesn't have to sleep in a coffin, and can swim in running water all she wants. She looks sixteen, has great strength and endurance, excellent night vision, can mutate her teeth and fingers into fangs and claws at will, and doesn't have to kill anyone when feeding - her "victims" actually relish the experience. She can walk unopposed among humanity, parading her eternal youth and overall superiority as she wills - the only inconvenience she experiences is that she occasionally runs into a vampire-hater who will, at the very worst, tell her to steer clear of him/her. One has to wonder; why aren't there more vampires about? Why would anyone say no to a socially acceptable immortality that has no downside to speak of?
This lack of weaknesses makes the entire concept of vampirism pointless. Genevieve might as well not be a vampire at all. Replace her great strength and claws-on-demand with martial expertise and give her a set of pointy ears, and you'd have an elf adventurer. The stories (except maybe "Ibby the Fish Factor") would play out the same.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
It is a good buy though to keep you busy until a newer ...
By Jason A. Lewis
Overall, the writing is mediocre and the story premise is a little contrived. It is a good buy though to keep you busy until a newer book or series comes along.
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