Reviews for Vampire 3: The Marriage of Virtue and Viciousness

The average rating for Vampire 3: The Marriage of Virtue and Viciousness based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-15 00:00:00 Rosanna Tejeda Since I really enjoyed the first volume of Vampire The Requiem novels, I thought I would pick up the next one by Greg Stolze and read on. Since I skipped the second one, there could be a few characters introduced there and carried into this, but my impression is that the second book is pretty much on its own. With that said, I didn't enjoy Marriage of Virtue and Viciousness quite as much as I hoped. Where Blood In and Blood Out had excellent character depth and a strong plot, I thought this had a good plot and was lacking in character depth. Essentially, the plot focuses on political struggle within the Lancea Sanctum which means Solomon Birch is one of the main characters this time around. He is a very good villain and quite evil. The most interesting characters and subplot is between Velvet, Steve, and Aurora which is basically a vampiric love triangle. Velvet (who is a vampire) seduced Steve who is a lonely and desperately bored school teacher and Aurora is a mortal vampire hunter trying to save Steve and kill Velvet for her own very valid reasons. These characters are fleshed out well and the subplot has the best twist of the book. The author tries to show some of the other political groups in Chicago, but they are not fleshed out and are difficult to relate to. So while there the overall plot is good and the subplot with Velvet, Steve, and Aurora is excellent, the other "diversions" to show other political groups in Chicago are not as interesting and you will almost want to skip through these sections to get to the better parts. While I enjoyed reading this, I would definitely say that Marriage of Virtue and Viciousness is for more diehard Vampire fans or someone who really enjoyed Blood In, Blood Out and doesn't mind reading one more book set in that world that is not quite as good.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-22 00:00:00 Nikola Nikolic I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!