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It is not easy to fathom what exactly is wrong with this novel.

Some reviewers complained about the constant pop culture references, unintelligible unless you have watched a lot of TV, but this is just a minor point: people who do not watch television often may miss the full edge of the puns, but they will still understand that they are faced with a pun.

Other reviewers seem to be complaining about the explicit slash content, the main character, Tony, being explicitly gay. To those I can only say:"Grow up!"
Nobody has to agree perforce to homosexuality in the fiction one reads, but if one does not, it would be best to simply say so, not making excuses. After all gay readers, up to a couple of years ago, had to relate perforce to straight characters only. I make a point of always saying in my reviews if a book has gay content so that one can skip it.

Back to the book.

Characters are likeable, a little sketchy, but this being an entertainment series one supposes they will get more depth along the way. One supposes, but still a little more depth... more attention to Tony's heartaches for example, to Henry's scruples?
The TV setting is allright, full of possibilities and potential.
In my opinion it is the script which sucks (hey, read a couple of Tony's lines and you will slang yourself silly before you realise it).

Whole paragraphs at a time are unfinished, clumsy. This makes the reading more difficult, less enjoyable, slow. You do not want slow when reading fantasy, unless it is gorgeous writing.
There being many other paragraphs perfectly good one has to suppose a lack of concentration, hurry or both.


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Smoke and Shadows The Smoke Trilogy Book 1 Tanya Huff Books Reviews

Excellent! The narrator is perfect!
Tanya Huff has once again combined the story of an everyman with the bizarre and thrilling underworld of sci-fi fantasy. Tony has all he can do to keep himself together when a wholly unexpected thing happens...shadows moving with their own volition. As he delves into this mystery the bodies start piling up and the mystery becomes more deadly by the hour. Every twelve hours you follow Tony's desperate attempts to stem the madness and shadows pouring between the world of sci-fi unrealistic TV and the threat of the Shadowland and it's Lord of shadows.It was a suspenseful ride along the fantasy highway and another great read from our favorite Canadian author. GO Tanya!
I was hyped to see that a new Tanya Huff vampire mystery was out, and disappointed to find no Victoria Nelson. The protagonist this time around is Henry Fitzroy's young "ward" Tony. Tony has become a production assistant on a cheaply-made television series about a vampire. He soon notices that the special effects lady is more special than usual, and that strange and sinister deaths are taking place on the set of the show. With a little help from Fitzroy and the special effects "Wizard", Tony sets out to save the world. This book is enjoyable and well-plotted, but lacks the zing of the "Blood" series.
Tanya Huff is an amazing author, and the Tony Foster books are proof positive. Some of her work is more serious than others, while these books are full of sarcastic, sometimes dark humor. The genre is urban fantasy with the hero being gay and one of my favorite leading men. Please, give these entertaining books a go and ENJOY THE FUN RIDE! 3
I did want to like this offshoot of the Bloodbooks Trilogy. No go. Writing seems manufactured. Characters didn't appeal - Henry was marginalized (how can you do that to Henry the Eighth's Bastard Vampire son?). Will not be reading more in this series.
Tanya Huff continues her exploration of classic modern Fantasy/Horror genres in this very entertaining novel.

Tony Foster, who was a bit of a wallflower character in her Blood novels has graduated to protagonist. He now lives apart from vampire/romance writer Henry Fitzroy and, irony of ironies, works as a TV production assistant on Huff's send-off to the classic syndicated vampire gumshoe series "Forever Knight".

As "Victory" Nelson and Michael Cellucci learned in the Blood novels, once you've gotten entangled in supernatural things, they just keep coming back to haunt you.

Hence, poor Tony, whose biggest problem is his crush on the show's handsome costar Lee Nicholas (who also seems oddly interested in Tony despite his apparent heterosexuality) finds himself at ground zero of an invasion from a world a bit more entrenched in the fantasy genre than Tony's own.

Being just a production assistant, Tony pulls the "I've got a vampire at my side and I'm not afraid to use him!" card. Together with the show's special effects wizard, who really is a wizard from the world that now threatens them, they act to resist the invasion.

The jokes are often hillarious and the dialogue, rather than the plot is what I found entertaining. Huff also clearly did her homework on how television sets work, because her attention to detail made the set of "Darkest Night" very easy to visualize. All in all an excellent recreational read.
Tony Foster and Henry Fitzroy had dealt with a lot of problems in their time together. Ghosts, mummies, the undead. So to Tony working on the set of a syndicated TV show called Darkest Night was weird, but not as weird as real life. Tony has had almost everything thrown at him at one time or another. Nothing could knock him off balance...

Not until the shadows on the studio started to move on their own - and started to kill people.

Now Tony has to deal with a invasion from another world by creatures of shadow. But lucky for him Henry, being a vampire, is also a creature of shadow.

Cool new start to a new vampire series by Tanya Huff. And CB remains me of the character of Nero Wolfe (in some ways).

Nice cover too!
It is not easy to fathom what exactly is wrong with this novel.

Some reviewers complained about the constant pop culture references, unintelligible unless you have watched a lot of TV, but this is just a minor point people who do not watch television often may miss the full edge of the puns, but they will still understand that they are faced with a pun.

Other reviewers seem to be complaining about the explicit slash content, the main character, Tony, being explicitly gay. To those I can only say"Grow up!"
Nobody has to agree perforce to homosexuality in the fiction one reads, but if one does not, it would be best to simply say so, not making excuses. After all gay readers, up to a couple of years ago, had to relate perforce to straight characters only. I make a point of always saying in my reviews if a book has gay content so that one can skip it.

Back to the book.

Characters are likeable, a little sketchy, but this being an entertainment series one supposes they will get more depth along the way. One supposes, but still a little more depth... more attention to Tony's heartaches for example, to Henry's scruples?
The TV setting is allright, full of possibilities and potential.
In my opinion it is the script which sucks (hey, read a couple of Tony's lines and you will slang yourself silly before you realise it).

Whole paragraphs at a time are unfinished, clumsy. This makes the reading more difficult, less enjoyable, slow. You do not want slow when reading fantasy, unless it is gorgeous writing.
There being many other paragraphs perfectly good one has to suppose a lack of concentration, hurry or both.