This is the most depraved, twisted, sick, ugly, disgusting, mortifying, wretched, rancid book in the whole series. I've become absolutely desensitized to eevry form of perversion in existence by reading this book.

In other words, Buy this book! This is pure geniues! Don't waste money on food, buy this book before White Wolf sends this clan after ya!


Trouble Shooters are Supposed to Help   October 14, 2000
 2 out of 4 found this review helpful

Justin Achilli gives us a look at the Giovanni portion of the vampire world. There are ghouls, vampires, crypts, new world gangsters, and old world necromancers. These subjects make the book barely worthwhile, because the main characters are stupppiiddd.

Don't get me wrong. The character ideas are great. Chas is a new world gangster and a relatively unimportant Giovanni vampire thug. Isabel is an old world necromancer, old and wise to vampire politics and goings on. They're both trouble shooting the same problems for their clan elders. Its just that these two characters behave like morons throughout the book. Time after time they flush the Giovanni clan fortunes down the toilet. But whats worse is that the author might actually think his characters are clever.


Great series, poor novel.   April 7, 2001
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

While the Clan Novel series was a very enjoyable read (especially for those familiar with the World of Darkness from White Wolf), this chapter of the series was fairly disappointing. Concentrating on shock, the novel failed to engage me, and while giving me more pieces of the puzzle, was the series' low-point. I'm fairly certain you could skip this book and still put the pieces together in Clan Novel: Nosferatu, and I'd recommend saving your money.


No payoff   May 8, 2001
 2 out of 3 found this review helpful

After slogging my way through this increasingly disappointing series of books, I had some hope for Clan Novel: Giovanni. There were many directions the book could have gone, and it seemed that Justin Achilli SAW those opportunities, but never took them.

A clan with such a rich and unsual history as the Giovanni offer an amazing opportunity for any Author, even beyond the obvious puerile topics of Necrophillia and Incest (which seems to be the primary focus of Giovanni authors, aimed to shock and titilate.)

Unfortunately Achilli never uses any of the opportunities afforded him.


Excellent book as part of the series   June 20, 2000
 1 out of 3 found this review helpful

For me this book started off a little slow and I was beginning to think the choise of Justin Achille as author was bad, but aboult half way through the book picked up dramatically and from then on I couldn't put it down. I especially like the way the book depicts the full range of Giovanni Vampires' personalities and abilities, this is one category the other books in the series did not do as well at. I did feel at times though that this book was a side story to the rest of the series, but with three books left, we shall see. If the book had drawn me in from the beginning, I would have given it 5-stars, but since it took me sticking to it as a result of the rest of the series, I give it a lower rating, but in conclusion, Justin did good. I Recommend this book, but you gotta stick through the slow bits.