Tremere

The third and final novel of the Clan Novel Trilogy: Tremere, Eric Griffin pulls the stories together in supernatural proportions. Having read the first two books of the trilogy (Widow's Walk and Widow's Weeds) I was eager to finish the series. The author pulls together his knowledge of vampiric lore as pertains to Vampire the Masquerade in concluding the trilogy. Eric Griffin is well known as being an author for White Wolf Publications. Griffin goes into explicit detail when describing setting, character thought process, and character development. Interesting character dialogue, combat, and supernatural prowess came together to make this not only a descriptive, but interesting novel. Plot development is excellent, although all the character introductions happened in the two novels prior. Without reading those first, one would be lost starting into this novel without having read the other two. Not a stranger to Vampire the Masquerade, I did notice several small inaccurate descriptions such as vampires that do not have to breathe, being afraid of drowning. Maybe that is being a bit picky, but it is nice when authors know the background about what they are writing about. When writing this series, the story began to split from one tale with all the characters together, into three separate stories. Griffin concludes two of the three, however leaves you hanging on the third, which I suspect, will come into play in another White Wolf novel. In all, the novel was very descriptive, and concluded the series. Enough dialogue and action to keep the novel interesting as well as a fulfilled development in all areas made the novel well worth one's while. James Collard