Masks, Karen Chance
Masks, Karen Chance
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Masks

Author: Karen Chance

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 13 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/30/2014

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal


Synopsis

Fifteenth-century Venice is a safe haven for the masterless dregs of the vampire world, a city where they can live without the fear of retribution for violating another's territory. Still, there are plenty of ways for a young vampire to die in the glittering city, a lesson that prince turned pauper Mircea Basarab must learn quickly. But there are opportunities, too—in the service of a secretive courtesan, in the bed of a beautiful senator, and in the hunt for an ancient assassin.

As a vendetta older than Venice itself comes to a climax, Mircea struggles to evade the dangers of his current life, to come to terms with his past, and to uncover the truth hidden behind a city of masks...

About Karen Chance

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of the popular Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab urban fantasy series. Karen is currently living in Florida, where she continues to write.


Reviews

Masks is the story of a young Mircea Basarab, as he washes up in Venice a couple of years after becoming vampire. Mircea is my favourite Karen Chance character. He's incredibly well-developed, with a depth that's often lacking within the 'sexy vampire' UF trope, though you have to read both the Cass......more

The Masks We Wear A whole book from Mircea's POV? *le sigh* Is there a more dignified, refined, sophisticated man on the face of the fictional planet? I think not. And even here, in his humble vampiric beginnings, during the rags phase of his riches-to-rags-and-back-to-riches-again story, he was......more