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Crimson City [Mass Market Paperback]

Liz Maverick (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 357 pages
  • Publisher: Hi Marketing; paperback / softback edition (30 July 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0505526220
  • ISBN-13: 978-0505526229
  • Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 12.3 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 863,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Dark & Dangerous 23 Feb 2006
By Book Addict TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Imagine Sin City spliced with Underworld and you have "Crimson City". Labelled so following the race wars between humans, werewolves and vampires, the 3 species now co-exist in uneasy harmony, a peace broken by the unexpected slaughter of 2 high ranking vampires.

Escaping the execution, Warrior vampire Fleur Dumont, now rightful head of her family following her brothers' deaths, feels humans are responsible after witnessing the assassin, a "mech", a mechanically enhanced human being. Joining forces with Dain Reston, a member of Crimson City's Battlefield Operations team, and a bitter man following his wife's death at the hands of a vampire, the pair find themselves attempting to untangle a mystery involving all 3 races in Crimson City. As more deaths occur, unrest is high in the city and in danger of escalating out of control.

There's loads of action and mystery in this book, as well as some fascinating characters who I hope crop up in future publications. For fans of dark fantasy we have supernatural races and hints of demonic experimentation, and for lovers of romance there is plenty of passion between Fleur and Dain. Despite their deepening feelings, both hide scarred pasts; Fleur breaking strict vampire code by converting a human lover, resulting in her losing her seat as rightful ruler of her family, and Dain, haunted by a wife he cannot remember and a new love he can never have.

I now eagerly look forward to reading, "A Taste of Crimson" by the marvellous Marjorie M Liu. There also appears to be another 2 further books within the "Crimson City" series, "Through a Crimson Veil" by Patti O' Shea and "A Darker Crimson" by Carolyn Jewel - I'll certainly be ordering all these books.

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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A cross between Blade Runner and Underworld 17 July 2005
By Mark
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This is the first book by Liz Maverick I've read. It won't be my last (I've already ordered the sequel called Taste of Crimson. I have been looking for a different book about vampires for a while now. This one takes a modern city, called Crimson City, and populates it with vampires in the sky, humans on the earth, and werewolves beneath it.

Vampires live lives of luxury, eating drinking and being merry in rich skyscrapers. They live from the use of blood banks, band together for mutual support and protection, and keep each other from doing anything criminal--like allowing their dark natures to gain ascendancy. They seem like really nice moral people.

The humans however, are traitorous, murderous, and revenge driven. All they seem to care about is regaining their dominance over the world by killing all those not human. They even create human cyborgs like Frankenstein's monster to use as killing machines, not caring about the men they use to do this. Wiping memories with evil dispatch,they blithely create killing machines.

The werewolves are the least understood in the city. Hardly ever seen, except for one memorable occasion in the book, they represent the lowest caste of people,and therefore easy to blame for things.

Standing aside from all, and loyal to no one are the rogue vampires--made vampires, or humans that have been bitten. These men and woman are vampires that either wanted to be vamps, or were made vamps against their wills, and could not adapt to their new realities. They hate everyone, and represent wild card in the city. Acting like mercenaries, they have no loyalty beyond themselves.

I gave this book four stars, because there is always room for improvement no matter how good a book is. Make no mistake, this book is very good.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The world building is good, but I can't say the same for the romance... 29 Sep 2012
By Amanda TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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OK, first things first; as the first book in a series Crimson City is invaluable for the world building, and for setting the overall tone of the alternate world.

Here's the big but... I really dislike the heroine. Fleur IS exactly how I'd expect a vampire to be - elitist and she just seems rather cold. Whilst I admire the realism, it means that I don't like - or root - for her or her cause in the book.

She spends the first part of the book moaning about how it's not fair that the family's role of leadership has passed over her and gone to her brothers and that she is in fact ready for the responsibility, but when it is given to her, she proves that she wasn't actually ready, and she goes on to make mistakes. It isn't actually the mistakes themselves that grate on me, it's the fact that other people make excuses for her so that she isn't held accountable for many of them.

Another thing that annoyed me about Fleur is that, although the author has scenes which have her somersaulting and doing roundhouse kicks, when the smelly stuff hits the fan, her cousins or the hero step in and handle things. So she is acting tough, but she really needs the big, strong men when things get tough.

I'm still not sure what I think of the hero Dain. He has a interesting background, but I was a bit underwhelmed in general. The speed with which he falls for Fleur is just unrealistic, and the way he makes excuses for her wrongdoing is annoying - she endangered other peoples lives, that shouldn't be shrugged off.

In all honesty, I can't think of anything else to say about him. He has much better chemistry with his work partner and [platonic] friend Cydney.

The romantic angle aside, I do recommend Crimson City as I've read the series out of order, so know that things do get a lot better. The alternate Los Angeles that is divided between vampire, werewolves and humans is a interesting setting for a series, revolving around politics and civil war between the three species.
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