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| Toreador (Clan Novel, No. 13) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stewart Wieck
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 616027
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 262
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1565048016
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781565048010
ASIN: 1565048016
Publication Date: January 14, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good for starters August 12, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
For my $ and a few hours reading, this is a good start to what is quite an epic series about vampires. No doubt, this is not an instant classic, but that's not what I expect from a short pulpy book that's the first of 13. It has character sketches of two Toreadors (one "real" artist and one "poser"), it shows the two main sides of White Wolf's vampire faction (the Camarilla and the Sabbat, and even tosses in some of the independent groups, like Setites) and it gets the action of the series underway (the Eye of Hazimel, the Sabbat attacks, etc.). The sex is not erotic, but these are undead we're talking about. There are some scenes that drag a bit, but there are some interestingly unsettling ones as well (a vampire coming out of frenzy licking dried blood off a road, a vampire kissing a bust he sculpted, etc.). My advise is either expect to read the entire series or don't pick up the first book at all. Judged by itself it may not be what YOU want it to be. But as part of the series, I think it succeeds just fine.
 One of the best series of books ever January 23, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
With only one book out of this great series being less than perfect and highly injoyable, Anthology will hopefully contine this grand tradition. I highly recomend this series and all its books to any who eother enjoy vampires the game or the general vampires of myth. You will be pulled in and held till you finish the set.
 Why? July 27, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are a fan of the fictional world created by White Wolf in connection with the role-playing game Vampire the Masquerade and the failed Kindred TV-series, you have probably read the previous books in this series. As the last books in this series are not yet out, I am not giving this book a one star just in case in some way this book serves some function in advancing the thirteen novel series. At first read, this novel is only loosely connected with the other novels.As a stand alone novel, this novel is a complete jumble. While I guess it is supposed to reflect the madness of the Malkavian mind, this does not make for an enjoyable read. Nothing in this book makes sense separate from a vague connection with the previous novels.
Clan Members Rejoice! May 5, 2000
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Malkavian is easily the best clan novel so far. The technique, concept, characterization, and seductive imagery are enough to set a Toreador artiste's heart to remember how to flutter with delight. Will this be the key to the entire saga? (Hint: read the other eight first.) Or just a prank? This ninth chapter in the clan novels is an alluring must-read.
 Sad start for Storyteller August 15, 2000
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I find it somehow ironic that a company who call their Game Referees Storytellers should have such a thin grasp on the meaning of the term. Typically one would assume that the first book in a series would be used as a hook to draw the reader into the world being presented.Clan Novel Toreador fails miserably in this respect. There is little, if any, character development and the idea of plot seems lost on the author. The Book never even graduated to painfully bad... at best it was boring. I will endeavor to struggle with this series in hopes that the other 'Storytellers' in this series can manage to live up to the term, though I dread the upcoming Clan Novel Malkavian as it seems to be regurgitated by the same 'author'.
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