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while the first two expert reviewers really liked Machivelli Moon, the Publisher Weekly reviewer did not

Vampires and werewolves unite in an urban fantasy/mystery, centering around a vampire, Maddelena, and her cadre of lovers and allies. Set in an alternate present of Deadwood, South Dakota, and Denver, Colorado, Maddelena is launched into a complex conspiracy when one of her werewolf beaux is brutally attacked and left for dead. She and her Lestatian mentor attempt to track the villain, but the threats continue, unspooling centuries of her own history and of vampire lore. It’s a complex world, full of secret societies, highly structured vampire and werewolf political machines, but the complexity coupled with the endless onslaught of new characters and their intertwining histories makes for a confusing, rather than rich, read. Maddelena, too, fails to engage; she has, at times, been a surgeon a symphony violinist, a politician, a mother, and a hotel owner, but she alternates between curiously dull and giddily adolescent, though saddling a first-person narrator with so much expository responsibility is bound to inhibit character development. The story is not without merit, but this one is too crowded and chaotic to make an impact.

This doesn't really upset me. I know to expect it in this game. I can even see a few points in this (I'm working on that now) Maddelena is over 2000 years old. So if her being different things bothered this reviewer well...honestly what you think she'd keep one job all that time. I do note s/he did NOT mention 'whore' here which is actually key but whatever. Wh

you know what offends me about this: Calling Sulien Lestatian. If anything he's the anti-Lestat (and happy the anti-Edward too)

I don't know if I made the semi-finals. That hasn't come out yet. It's late.

And speaking of writing congrats to