He draws the smallest of characters so vividly that you can feel the warmth folksy appeal of the elderly couple that open their poor home to the Greyfriar and Princess Adele even at great risk to themselves. Miyagi, his Colonel Anhault, a Gurkha officer who heads the Royal Guard sounds as if he sprang right from the sub-continent and he even does convincing voices for the Persian female mystic and an African sorceress who are members of the cabal. He nails the ethnic voices making the Japanese tutor/mystic Marmaru sound more like Lord Toranaga than Mr. He handles womens voices so well that I forget it is a man who is doing the reading. James Marsters puts in a performance, not just some sort of mellifluous voice. What does James Marsters bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? He is by no means perfect except in the struggle.

He is obviously on the classic hero's journey and sometimes it is painful to watch. For myself it has to be the Greyfriar himself. My boyfriend's favorite was Flay and I guess it is because she is so sexy while being so deadly. I always love him in the Dresden Files but oh my what he does with this makes me impatient for the next book in the series (I've read the Riftwalker and am waiting for the 3rd book to come out) They even have a little bit of Ney music leading in and ending the book which makes me think of of Princess Adele as a child and her Persian mother. Yes, although I enjoyed the print version the added dimension of James Marsters narrating was impressive. Would you consider the audio edition of Vampire Empire - The Greyfriar to be better than the print version? As the power struggle between the vampires and humans increase Adele and The Greyfriar are caught in the middle, on the run, being hunted, and fighting for not just their own lives, but for future of humanity. The Greyfriar, a legendary vampire hunter from the north, appears ready to rescue the Princess and return her home-but he harbors secrets of his own. Prepared to do her duty she finds herself caught in a web of political intrigue and physical danger. Their marriage will cement an alliance between the nations and set the stage for war against the vampires in an attempt to retake the north. Princess Adele, quick witted, combat trained and heir to throne is set to wed the scion of the American Republic, a man she has never met. The Equatorian Empire, descendant of the British Empire, stretches from Alexandria to Cape Town.

There, blending with the local peoples, they rebuilt their societies founded on human ingenuity, steam and iron. A remnant fled south to the safety of the ever present heat which was intolerable to vampires. The great industrialized civilizations of the world were left in ruin. Millions perished millions were turned into herd animals. The vampire clans arose and slaughtered humanity with unprecedented carnage in the northern parts of the world.

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