The Vampire's Violin
by Michael Romkey
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Author: Michael RomkeyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN: 0345452089
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: Great novel - less horror, more homage to orchestra and violins
Summary: 5 Stars
The Vampire's Violin is a tastefully written novel about a series of violins that sound so beautiful they are coveted by both vampires and humans alike. Michael Romkey opens the novel in the year 1744, introducing us to blind violin-maker Archangelo Serafino and Welsh vampire and violinist Dylan Glyndwr, who covets the "Angel" violins. Hundreds of years pass while Dylan searches for an Angel violin, and we are brought to present-day Iowa to meet Maggie O'Hara, a college student who inherits her grandfather's Angel violin that fell into his possession during WWII. Dylan pursues his quest for the Angel violin through Maggie.
As a horror novel, The Vampire's Violin is not at all scary; but instead pays an homage to violins, the love of classical music, and the orchestra. The Angel violin does not hold possessive or supernatural powers, but rather instills confidence in the player as they are affected by the instrument's beauty in sound. The book reminds me strongly of the movie The Red Violin.
The Vampire's Violin is written so well and is such a great story that vampires need not even be involved at all; it would have sufficed with just evil and selfish humans chasing the violin. The vampires featured in the novel are not scary or horrifying, and here I'll refrain from revealing any further details.
All in all, Romkey's The Vampire's Violin is an entertaining and eloquent read, and I would definitely recommend it to classical music buffs and fans of the orchestra. Nicely done!
Summary of The Vampire's Violin
Listen to its haunting, angelic soundAfter centuries of life, the Vampire has just two passions left: blood and music. The blood of innocents is plentiful and easily attained?it is his other passion that torments him. Many years ago he owned and lost a violin that sang with the voice of the angels. Now this unearthly monster will do anything to press the instrument once more against his neck.
As it summons a hellish creature of the night
Maggie O?Hara was a talented if unremarkable violinist?until the day her grandfather gives her a violin he had brought home from World War II. For fifty years the magnificent instrument sat untouched in an attic, but from the moment Maggie hits the first note, her playing is transformed. With this remarkable violin in her possession, all of her dreams are eerily becoming reality. But she has no way of knowing that a nightwalker is tracking her down?and that he has every intention of taking back, through bloodlust and terror, what is rightfully his. . . .
THE VAMPIRE?S VIOLIN
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