While I enjoyed this trilogy greatly, this one plods a bit. Other reviewers have highlighted their concerns, and I tend to agree, so I won't re-hash eWhile I enjoyed this trilogy greatly, this one plods a bit. Other reviewers have highlighted their concerns, and I tend to agree, so I won't re-hash everything.
The crowning jewl of this book is the setup for the Vampire World trilogy. This little fact is why Brian Lumley will always be my favorite "vampire" author (though I love his other works, too). Why? I read and write fantasy, true, but one of my requirements is that the world is NOT Earth. The setting has to be somewhere else, another planet, another reality...
Vampires are too often treated as humans who have somehow been changed. Not with Lumley. The "egg" which transforms its host is not of this world, but a parallel existence. For me, that sold the show. Entire plausible, if one could actually go through such a hole to the parallel world.
Now, the ESP stuff. That part I have never liked about this series. While Harry's talking to the dead is a cool concept and it makes the Necroscope what he is. This is a little bit of a hard stretch for me, but it is unique and who doesn't like the name Dragosanni? ADHD much? Anyway, all of the other "far-seeing" and mind-reading is all just bollucks. It's not real, and if anyone can provie it's real, go apply for the James Randi $1 million challenge.
OK, off my soap box.
If you don't like sparkly vampires, and want to read about pure evil versus a few guys and gals doing their best to stop them, pick up this series. And I definitely suggest the Vampire World series. This book really sets this up well....more
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