Review of Screaming Spires by Georgiana Derwent
The Cavaliers #2
5 stars
The War between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads—Royalist
supporters of English King Charles I vs. the Puritan followers of Oliver
Cromwell who opposed Charles—began in 1642, but in this series it’s still
raging, with the difference being that where British humans have primarily left
the War behind (except for historians), among Vampires there are still two
diametrically opposed groups, and they’re still named “Cavaliers” and “Roundheads.”
It’s still a matter of who can get over on whom, and right now the focus is on
Harriet, a young Oxford student from Yorkshire, whose family connections are
far more involved with both sides of the War than she could ever have a reason
to suspect.
I love this series because Georgiana Derwent simply doesn’t
settle for routine, two-dimensional characters, neither vampire or human. Sure,
we get the sexy, sensually appealing vampires; we also get the “scaries.” But
these individuals are just as fully fleshed out as are the humans, and reading
these novels is like peeking in through a one-way window into the lives of our
characters (both mortal and eternal). Additionally, Ms. Derwent has an
excellent background in the history of the English Civil War Era, and of her
settings, and she elaborates both so that even readers who have never been to
England, or know nothing of the history, can be just as fully involved in these
stories as readers who are acquainted with locale and history.
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