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The Soul of an Angel [Hardcover]

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Author), Christopher H. Bing (Author, Illustrator)
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"A versatile and distinctive talent... Yarbro has a fine way with the wicked and a clean, terse style."

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Young and beautiful, Fenice Zucchar lives in opulent splendor on the world's richest island. Yet her soul yearns for the freedom of the sea -- for the breathtaking sights and sounds that await her far from the velvet prison of Venice -- and on the eve of her arranged wedding she stows away on one of her brother's ships. But her plans are dashed when she is discovered and abandoned in the teeming port of Varna. Panic is descending upon the city, for death has come to this place, spawning stories told in hushed, frightened whispers of a bloodthirsty demon wandering in the night. The mesmerizing creature of alluring power and dark sensuality has chosen Fenice, offering the young noblewoman more freedom than she could know in a hundred lifetimes. But there is another already waiting at the Dark Lord's mountain domain when Fenice and her new master arrive: a lovely and crazed consort mad corrupted by Dracula's terrible passion, who could prove to be Fenice's staunchest ally and sister, or her most fearsome adversary.
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3.0 out of 5 stars not as good as the first one...but worth reading, Sep 21 2002
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Lynnsey Petroff (near Lake Erie, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Soul of an Angel (Hardcover)
I have to agree with one of the other reviews. This was a good book, but not as interesting as the first and certainly not of the caliber you'd expect if you're a CQY fan.
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3.0 out of 5 stars So-so..., July 14 2002
This review is from: The Soul of an Angel (Hardcover)
I was really looking forward to this book, having enjoyed "The Angry Angel" quite a bit. However, this second volume in the series defintely lags behind Yarbo's initial offering.

She spends the first several chapters telling us in many different ways what we already know: that the heroine, Fenice, is bored and frustrated with her life of Venetian privilege and yearning for adventure on the high seas and elsewhere. Enough, already! Let's cut to the chase! But no - these points are belaboured for a while longer; her disapproving family, her boring fiance, her desire to postpone marriage for as long as possible, etc. etc. etc.

In contrast to "The Angry Angel," for most of this book Dracula is basically absent. There seems to be little real connection between him and Fenice, and little reason for one. Unlike Kelene who was trapped in a situation of dire poverty and physical danger, Fenice is in the lap of luxury. How many people in real life are desperate to flee lives of privilege for the squalor and "adventure" of street-life? This motivation is not realistic.

Finally over halfway through the book things begin to pick up, but by this time finishing the book is an act of will. My ennui was completed by the discovery that Kelene, the heroine of the first novel, has somehow morphed from a wise-beyond-her-years, interesting teenager to a spoiled, petulant brat. What?!

Let's hope the heroine of book 3, whoever she might be, realizes there's more than enough of Dracula to go around.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Soul of an Angel, Mar 2 2002
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Barbara A Pifer (Kalamazoo, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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Am reading the first and second books in this trilogy for about the third time. They both get better with every read. When will the third one be out? I anxiously await it. Quinn Yarbro looks at vampirism from a different angle than Ann Rice. Excellent read no matter how many times you read them.
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