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!
It's years since I revisited these - except I did pick up a very late entry in the series at Wiscon a few years ago. They did tend to be formulaic - and got longer and longer and longer, as I recall - but I did give them points for being in, on the whole, less visited niches of history. 1743 in France is, after all, neither the court of the Sun King, nor is it the guillotine impends if not the Terror raging, even if it is wall to wall evil aristos.
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:39 pm (UTC)