Hôtel Transylvania (Saint-Germain, volume 1) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

[james_davis_nicoll]

Poor Madelaine de Montalia! The only person between her and Clotaire de Saint Sebastien's ruthless cult of Satanists is the charming Le Comte de Saint-Germain... vampire!

Hôtel Transylvania (Saint-Germain, volume 1) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Comments

[dragoness_e]

This was the novel that hooked me on the series. I read a lot of them, but at some point, lost interest as they started being harder to find or came out less often. Also soured a bit on devout Christians always being bad guys in them.

[jreynolds197]

Heh. The one I saw in the used book store is set in Rome in the time of Elagabalus. And according to the dust jacket, the baddie is... a devout Christian!

[ba_munronoe]

The "pagans good, Christians bad" meme in fantasy is annoying, and kinda disrespectful of pre-Christian peoples, who have the right to be just as awful as anyone else. Sort of a form of chronological Orientalism.

[kgbooklog]

What annoys me these days is explicit Christianity in high magic secondary worlds. Storm-goddess avatars should not be quoting Psalms, not even under duress.

[dragoness_e]

Yarbro avoided that one in the St. Germain stories. Almost everywhere was shown to be stunningly intolerant of strangers, no matter what their religion.