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Review title: A disappointment all around
Product review: A major disappointment for Kurtz fans, this book shows none of her excellent characterizations. Unlike her Deryni series, none of these characters inspire a feeling that you want to know these people better. Not James Drummond, the protagonist, who apparently gives up his charmed, bachelor life working for the LAPD. Not the order of crusading knights who somehow felt that the desecration of the Grail Shrine in the Holy Land by vampiric Saracens could be cleansed by nailing the lead vampire to the shrine wall and drinking his blood using the cup of Christ. All in all, the work was clearly a lesson in writing for MacMillan, who got his characterizations down better by the book's end. But it's scarcely worth the read for Kurtz fans
