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VtM - Review: Vampire Diary: The Embrace
books, but its "Twilight Zone" ending makes it possible to read it alone. The same is true of "Star Wars"-it
was complete unto itself, though it was also the beginning of a trilogy. Because I was not satisfied with
the ending, I have no desire to read more about the characters.
Auston is such a generic choice for a viewpoint character that it is hard to understand why he was written
that way. Perhaps Embrace is meant as a kind of bildons roman, wherein the young, innocent hero learns
about the cold, hard world. If this is so, perhaps the authors confused "young" and "innocent" with
"ignorant" and "bland". Ah, well. He'll play well on TV as the "Kid in over his head" archetype.
I'm going to take a stab at why Embrace doesn't work. Rein(dot)Hagen and Weinberg write fiction the
same way they recommend creating characters for V:tM. Unfortunately, what was a massive step forward
for role-playing games is still only mediocrity in the field of fiction. I cannot honestly reccomend
Embrace as an artistic endevour.
Oh, and just a final note: you gamers will notice a few inconsistancies between book and game. For
example, Auston is Embraced as a Ventrue, but has no instinctual preference for a certain kind of blood.
It's kind of a pity that the millieu is being watered down.
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