Pale Guardian
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
During the carnage of World War One, James Asher joins forces with the vampires of Europe to counter an even deadlier threat.
The vampires call them ‘The Others’. Neither living nor dead, the revenants are mindless and unstoppable – and in the carnage of the First World War, governments already running short of men to throw into battle might be very interested in soldiers who don’t ask questions and are hard to kill. Front-line volunteer nurse Lydia Asher is horrified to learn that someone has found a way to control revenants, and is creating them for this purpose.
Back in London, Lydia’s husband, former spy James Asher, is even more appalled to learn that revenants are beginning to show up in England, on the loose. Since revenants devour vampires, the vampires of Europe – most of whom are at the Front, feeding completely unnoticed on the dying – join forces with the Ashers to find the source of the threat before the world is overwhelmed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hambly's seventh James Asher vampire novel (following Darkness on His Bones) blends excellent historical detail and skilled characterization with Gothic intrigue. Dr. Lydia Asher works as a volunteer medic at the front lines near Ypres in March, 1915. Her husband, James, convalescing from pneumonia, is home in England, and her self-appointed vampire protector, Don Simon Ysidro, has followed her to the battle lines where every other vampire in Europe has already clustered, feeding on the terminal wards. Despite her hatred for vampires and everything they represent, Lydia is forced to work with Simon, and James with the vampires of London, to stop an even greater threat: mindless revenants who feed on human and vampire alike. The revenants are as contagious as they are deadly, and they have begun to appear in the trenches. Hambly's affecting situations hold real moral weight, marred only by her occasional over-reliance on standard thriller tropes.
