Winter Duty (Vampire Earth Series #8) by E.E. Knight
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- Pub. Date: July 2009
- 352pp
- Sales Rank: 8,017
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: July 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
- Format: Hardcover, 352pp
- Sales Rank: 8,017
- Series: Vampire Earth Series, #8
- ISBN-13: 9780451462749
- ISBN: 0451462742
Synopsis
Major David Valentine and his fugitive battalion are the remnants of an expeditionary force shattered in its long retreat from disaster in the Appalachians. Between a raging blizzard, bands of headhunters, and the need to recover wounded soldiers lost during the retreat, Valentine is in for the toughest winter of his life.
And Valentine is losing allies fast. Some of the clans in the region have declared themselves in favor of the Kurians, throwing Kentucky into civil war. But the Kurian overlords have determined that the region isn't worth the effort of another conquest. Their order: extermination.
Publishers Weekly
The tense eighth installment of Knight's Vampire Earth series (a welcome improvement over 2008's Fall with Honor) continues David Valentine's adventures in 2076 as the invading Kurian Order decides to exterminate rebellious Earthlings. The Southern Command authorizes Valentine to wage a guerrilla war with the goal of creating a Kentucky freehold. His ragtag battalion (including some controversial Quisling and alien Grog recruits) must deal first with a power plant outage that blacks out Evansville and Owensboro and then a blizzard and the Kurians' plot to unleash a "ravies" epidemic on the human herd. Knight keeps the conflict interesting but says too little about the inscrutable Kurians, who are "like magicians, always diverting attention from the operating hand." Even readers familiar with the series would welcome a glossary and more background on the various alien races. (July)
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Great book but not the best in the series.by DannyWith62
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August 17, 2009: I have read all of E.E. Knights Vampire Earth series and I love them, I find them great and they keep on getting better and better. Winter Duty was good but it was not the best in the series, it took me awhile to get into it and it felt like the book is just there to set up something bigger. All the characters are there that you know and love. Another problem I had with this book is that Knight would bring up something that happened in the past but he didnt talk about it so that you would remember it, It has been a year since I read the last Vampire Earth book and I wouldnt mind if he described what happened when he brings it up. The title didnt really go along with the story but other than that the book is for the fans and is setting something big up.
Continuing Vampire Earth Storyby dalnewt
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July 23, 2009: This series is the engrossing story of David Valentine's battles/struggles against the Kurian Order which controls most of the populated areas of Earth. Headed by aura consuming Kurian masters and enforced by their bloodsucking, virtually indestructible avatars called Reapers, the Kurians feed from the human herd dominating humanity through fear, propaganda and manipulation. The human majority cooperates with the Kurians and many serve these masters in a military, political, administrative and/or religious capacity. These cooperating humans are dubbed Quislings within the Ozark Free Territory in which Valentine was trained and received his initial Lifeweaver augmentation as a 'wolf'. Although related to the Kurians, Lifeweavers don't feed from aura and oppose the practice by enhancing certain human abilities in three categories: the long-ranging human wolves, the infiltrating human cats and the virtually unstoppable human bears. Valentine is the only known human to be enhanced with all three. He's the most dangerous human weapon against the Kurians.
In this installment Valentine is left in Kentucky with quisling recruits and a few holdovers from Southern Command of the Free Ozark Territory. Although he argues for more support with Southern Command, a new conservative administration has decided to consolidate power. He's left in a half-deserted, mock-up fort with half-trained troops of dubious loyalty facing probable Kurian retaliation. This story follows an election by Kentucky clans to either remain neutrally unorganized or become an independent state politically opposed to the Kurians. Valentine provides security for that caucus and is then sent across Kentucky to collect wounded Southern Command forces left behind in the care of allied clans. Meanwhile, a Kurian plot to neutralize Kentucky opposition becomes operative. Although less intense than some of the earlier books, this tale is fast-paced and well-plotted with a surprising conclusion. I recommend it to any series' fan and recommend the entire series to anyone who enjoys action, adventure, morally difficult decisions and a complex, well-developed protagonist.I Also Recommend: Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera Series #1), Way of the Wolf (Vampire Earth Series #1), Choice of the Cat (Vampire Earth Series #2), Tale of the Thunderbolt (Vampire Earth Series #3), Valentine's Rising (Vampire Earth Series #4).
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