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Gabriele Caccini: The Vampire Gene - Book 1
 
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Gabriele Caccini: The Vampire Gene - Book 1 (Paperback)

by Paigan, Stone (Author)
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  • Paperback: 340 pages
  • Publisher: AuthorHouse (8 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 142596656X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1425966560
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 711,739 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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I'm looking for a girl - and not just any girl will do. You see I'm no ordinary student at Manchester University and the lovely Carolyn is exactly what I want. Tall, dark and androgynous; she resembles my cousin and first love. All my girls do...I didn't bank on the beautiful Lilly, of course. She's blonde, curvy; has thrown me with her lyrical voice. I admit she's gorgeous even though she is not my type! But despite my protests my dreams are filled with Lilly and even a Seventeenth Century vampire has trouble controlling his urges. Especially when drugged by a fellow student with Ecstasy. Over four hundred women have died because of my uncontrollable passion, so why is Lilly the only woman in centuries to survive my fatal kiss?

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Vampire Gene - Gabriele Caccini - a great first novel., 18 Jan 2007
This is the first book in the planned Vampire Gene trilogy that is planned by author Paigan Stone. Gabriele Caccini is about the fictional nephew of Giulio Caccini (a real historical character - the man who effectively invented opera). Gabriele becomes a vampire after being seduced and bitten by Lucrezia, who then spurns him, leaving him to spend the rest of his life searching for a mate to share his immortality. The quest is unsuccesful and Gabriele has to re-invent himself each generation, killing hundreds of yourng women in the process - not altogether unwillingly.

The book picks up the story when Gabriele is a student in modern Manchester. There are realistic and erotic descriptions of his attempts to find his mate. Gabriele has been used to total control over his life and circumstances but that facade crumbles when he is drugged at a party and makes love to a girl who is very much not his usual type.

The story is very well told and the reader is presented with numerous flashbacks to Gabriele's early life in Medici Venice. The author has an impressive knowledge of vampire literature and tradition, and the book is also well-researched with the right amount of technical and historical detail to create a totally believable context for Gabriele's adventures and increasingly meditative search for an explanation for his very existence. There is also a dark and bloody episode in the New York vampire club scene.

Gabriele Caccini is well-written as ou would expect from an author with a MA in Creative Writing. It is an interesting examination of some old legends seen partially through the eyes of the vampire himself. The book includes a measured but integral and appropriate amount of blood and sex. The relationship between vampirism and eroticism is already well and widely understoodd and Paigan Stone is able to write sex scenes that are realistic and arousing while at the same time using them to develop her theme of the raw power of the vampire. It is his hideous but compelling supernatural nature that helps ensure that his victims are not entireley unwilling to feed him.

Overall the book is fast-paced and at the end of every chapter I wanted to know what would happen next... I look forward very much to the second book in the trilogy.



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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Vampire Gene-ius, 4 Aug 2008
By P. M. May "Darkside6869" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Excellent book, what I like was the Vampire Gabriele revelled in the taking of blood and actually killed his victems.

Loved the snippets of his history over the centuries and can't wait for book two.

Worth getting your fangs into.

Re-released as Killing Kiss by Sam Stone soon.

Peter Mark May, Author of Demon
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a great read!, 12 Feb 2007
By Mrs. S. M. Connor "Bookworm" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Very impressed with this first book!
I found it to be fast moving and with lots of twists and turns.
I'm looking forward to the second!
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