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<blockquote data-quote="Elemental" data-source="post: 2154547" data-attributes="member: 7931">I read them from time to time and quite like them. The concepts in them are brilliant and terrifying to me--the florid writing and annoyingly bland and flawless heroes less so. One thing that got a bit annoying was Lumley's habit of finishing each book by totally annihilating the vampire presence, then needing to find some cheesy way to bring some of them back for the next sequel. If he could get the hang of recurring villains, the series would benefit considerably.The first couple of books, to me, read like the description of a RPG campaign where the GM was planning for a low-key espionage game with paranormal undertones, and then one player brings in his lovingly minmaxed munchkin character more suited for a superhero game. And another player makes a character from a completely different genre.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elemental, post: 2154547, member: 7931"] I read them from time to time and quite like them. The concepts in them are brilliant and terrifying to me--the florid writing and annoyingly bland and flawless heroes less so. One thing that got a bit annoying was Lumley's habit of finishing each book by [I]totally annihilating[/I] the vampire presence, then needing to find some cheesy way to bring some of them back for the next sequel. If he could get the hang of recurring villains, the series would benefit considerably. The first couple of books, to me, read like the description of a RPG campaign where the GM was planning for a low-key espionage game with paranormal undertones, and then one player brings in his lovingly minmaxed munchkin character more suited for a superhero game. And another player makes a character from a completely different genre. ;) [/QUOTE]

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