- Paperback: 768 pages
- Publisher: The Black Library; paperback / softback edition (20 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844162443
- ISBN-13: 978-1844162444
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 5.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 74,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kim Newman is always a treat - The Guardian Engaging, breathlessly clever - SFX Strong and highly atmospheric fantasy - Starlog Jack Yeovil keeps up the high standard of excitement and entertainment - Enigma Most imaginitive writing; recommended - Interzone Yeovil excels at the macabre and grotesque - rpg.net Yeovil delivers a tale with bite and just a little humour that will keep you gripped from the moment you enter his world until you're spat out breathless and hungry for more at the end - Enigma
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Evil has a new enemy...one of its own. Meet Genevieve Dieudonne. She's beautiful, powerful, resourceful and courageous - and over four hundred years old. In the dark forests and cities of the Warhammer world, she and her unlikely companions battle the forces of evil and insanity. However, the vampire blood running through Genevieve's veins means she must constantly fight the urge to surrender to the evil within her. "The Vampire Genevieve" collects together all the tales of Genevieve and her unlikely companions into one volume. It contains the four fabulous novels "Drachenfels", "Genevieve Undead", "Beasts in Velvet" and "Silver Nails". Jack Yeovil is a pseudonym for popular nevelist Kim Newman. The Genevieve books were first published by Games Workshop in the late 1980s and quickly gained a cult reputation amongst Warhammer and fantasy fans alike. Now all four novels are available in a superb value collected volume.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Have you heard the one about the brave prince, the dwarf, the wizard, the vampire girl, and sundry other characters on their heroic quest to rid the world of the evil magician? Of course you have, which is why that part of the story is dealt with in sixteen pages at the start, under the heading "Twenty Five Years Ago". What dominates all of the work of Jack Yeovil (actually Kim Newman, noted film critic and possessor of positively Dickensian facial hair) is that he knows the clichés, and knows you do too. Instead of relating the quest, he tells the story of what happened after, seen through the backstage drama of putting on a play about the quest. And so you find yourself reading a novel about a play about a legend based on the "real" event, which - naturally - is not what everyone thought it was in the first place. "Drachenfels" is not just a great Warhammer novel, but a great work of Fantasy that anyone interested in the genre should read, and anyone critical of the genre should at least consider reading.
The rest of the impressively thick book is taken up with other tales, with the quality varying from just-above-average to brilliant; but although bound under the name of Genevieve, Yeovil's vampire heroine barely appears in some stories in this collection, and is completely absent from others, which - along with the fact that many of the stories are presented out of chronological sequence - gives the book considered as a whole a rather disjointed air. Still, "Beasts in Velvet" is a cracking murder mystery, and even the most conventional (and thus least interesting) story, "The Ignorant Armies", is still a good read. The last story in the collection - "The Ibby The Fish Factor" - wraps the whole thing up with a light-hearted and, for the Warhammer books, remarkably up-beat note. But it will almost certainly be Drachenfels that stays with you the longest, both for the refreshingly different approach to the Quest story, and for the title character, who is sufficiently well written that he overcomes the obvious influences of Tolkien - high praise indeed in a genre which seems to knock out a cheap clone of Lord Of The Rings every six months.
The rest of the impressively thick book is taken up with other tales, with the quality varying from just-above-average to brilliant; but although bound under the name of Genevieve, Yeovil's vampire heroine barely appears in some stories in this collection, and is completely absent from others, which - along with the fact that many of the stories are presented out of chronological sequence - gives the book considered as a whole a rather disjointed air. Still, "Beasts in Velvet" is a cracking murder mystery, and even the most conventional (and thus least interesting) story, "The Ignorant Armies", is still a good read. The last story in the collection - "The Ibby The Fish Factor" - wraps the whole thing up with a light-hearted and, for the Warhammer books, remarkably up-beat note. But it will almost certainly be Drachenfels that stays with you the longest, both for the refreshingly different approach to the Quest story, and for the title character, who is sufficiently well written that he overcomes the obvious influences of Tolkien - high praise indeed in a genre which seems to knock out a cheap clone of Lord Of The Rings every six months.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've always regarded fantasy as an underrated genre. In all fairness, there are some truly shocking authors out there, and the RPG tie-in market seems to attract more than its fair share of them. Jack Yeovil (or Kim Newman, if you prefer) is definitely one of the better authors out there.
Definitely don't let the Warhammer tag put you off. Unlike many of the series out there, you don't need to have even heard of Warhammer to access this. All in all it's a very well written anthology, combining detailed, convincing characters with a rich, well paced plot. It certainly gives an interesting take on the nature of good and evil.
Well worth a read!
Definitely don't let the Warhammer tag put you off. Unlike many of the series out there, you don't need to have even heard of Warhammer to access this. All in all it's a very well written anthology, combining detailed, convincing characters with a rich, well paced plot. It certainly gives an interesting take on the nature of good and evil.
Well worth a read!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Now I have read many of the novels published by Black Library and realise (believe me) that most are mediocre at best. If you've been burned by people assuring you that the likes of Dan Abnett and Bill King are talented writers then please, believe me also when I tell you that these are the real thing; very well written and character driven novels and short stories that really won't disappoint. Originally published some time ago, back when Games Workshop's target audience was still adults, collected together at this price these books represent a fantastic bargain and receive my highest recommendation.
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Richly enjoyable collection!
The most difficult task for an author is to re-invent a character (or a type), and yet remain true to the genre. Read more
Published 5 months ago by RIJU GANGULY
Move aside other vampire series!
Having read these books many years ago as a separate series I have since re-read them multiple times. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Matthew Roberts
Excellent Book
Excellent book, a really good read found I just couldnt put it down. Highly recommended for all warhammer fans and fantasy readers in general
Published 21 months ago by Leele
The Vampire Genevieve
These books are fantastic. Kim Newman/Jack Yeovil (the same person) basically got me into Games Workshop and the Black Library with these books. Read more
Published 22 months ago by SFF fangirl
thumbs up.
i have just got bored of playing video games .and i thought why not start reading few books? this is my first novel and i must say i am very impressed with it . Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2010 by S. Ahmed
A bit slow.
To be honest, i thought Genevieve would be more of a heroine, perhaps a little more capable as the main hero. Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2009 by R. Niewiadowski
The Vampire Genevieve
I was very disappointed by this series of short stories. Pretty much everything I felt about this book has been summed up by 'Mike the Mason' in an earlier review. Read more
Published on 10 April 2009 by Blood God PHD
Unforgettable
I was hoping for something dark, sexy, and memorable. The Vampire Genevieve by Jack Yeovil is all this and so, so much more. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2009 by Robert Bailey
A great book
Written back in the days when warhammer was still a fictional world and not a marketing concept genevieve really is a book that puts things to life. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2009 by T. Brown
Dark fantasy... at its darkest!
This was the first Warhammer fiction I'd bothered to read and, believing it would be the generic fantasy version of pulp fiction that most of the D&D stuff I'd read was, I figured... Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2008 by R. W. Merriman
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