Review: Buffy meets Masqerade
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2013
The author of this book used a pretty simple formula, he took Buffy, made him male and put him in the world of RPG, Masquerade. Remember in Buffy that the role of Willow, Buffy's best friend and played by Allyson Hannigan, was a powerful witch, who was involved with a werewolf, played by Seth Green, after their break-up she discovers that she's a lesbian and the show goes from there....well same thing happened in this book but the witch is in love with a lesbian werewolf fromt the begining. The female vampire, his love interest, is Angel in female form, the vampires belonged to clans and had different forms, weaknesses, agendas etc., just like the rpg, pretty lazy imo.I thought I read in the authors bio that he was ex-military, yet he has female marines in front line combat roles? If he was in the military, especially the Marine Corps, he would know this was not true and would have made at least some attempt at getting the details right.The dialogue was poor, characters were one-dimensional and the story was simplistic, guy discovers he's part of Vampire Hunter clan, has super-powers, within a month or 2 can use them to full potential, dues ex machina's his way out of every situation and scores the big win. I enjoy vampire hunter type stories and even though there are many, I can read them over and over, when done well, this unfort., didn't meet that standard.I did give it a star, up from the 1, b/c it had really good editing which allowed me to finish even though I didn't like the book.  I won't be buying any more in the series but applaud the author for having the fortitude to put something out there, I know anyone can be a critic but completing a novel is hard work, just to bad a good formula fell short.