Clan Novel: Malkavian

If anything, reading this book will challenge your ability to decipher prophecy and translate that which is not communicated with a commonly expected level of elucidation.

If you are looking for a straight-forward ...the commonly expected plot, action, and demonstration of WoD mechanics, et cetera - than you might want to take a look at Clanbook:Malkavian FIRST before reading Clan Novel:Malkavian.

If you understand, accept, and actually favour the inner workings of the Malkavian mind - get this book.


Why?   July 27, 2000
Terrence Messonnier
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

If you are a fan of the fictional world created by White Wolf in connection with the role-playing game Vampire the Masquerade and the failed Kindred TV-series, you have probably read the previous books in this series. As the last books in this series are not yet out, I am not giving this book a one star just in case in some way this book serves some function in advancing the thirteen novel series. At first read, this novel is only loosely connected with the other novels.

As a stand alone novel, this novel is a complete jumble. While I guess it is supposed to reflect the madness of the Malkavian mind, this does not make for an enjoyable read. Nothing in this book makes sense separate from a vague connection with the previous novels.


Clan Novel : Malkavian   May 14, 2000
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I am an avid reader of all things Vampire, I have read all the Clan novels as they are released. This latest entry into the series is the first one I felt was just not very good. I understand that Malkavians are all mad but this book is enough to drive you over the edge. The story line was not advanced in this piece except to kill off a few more characters. Perhaps I'm missing something but you could of told this story in two pages, the rest of the book was just a wordy jumble of confused prose written in the first person then switching over to dialog between an ego and his ulterego. I know this is fantasy but give me a break, this series has been so good what has happened? I hope the last four novels in the series are as good as the previous eight, I guess thirteen great novels was just too much to ask.


I was really looking forward to this book   August 10, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

but after only 18 pages, I had to give up. I love clan Malkavian, mostly because it is a rare person who can truly play one. A subtle clan to comprehend. I saw only one great Malk character in the novels so far, and he got killed in the first book (which tells me it's a rare author who can truly write a Malkavian). But this story is told in first person, which breaks the entire feel of the series, and of course, the teller is a mad man. I couldn't understand what he was talking about, or even how one sentence related to the next. Such an incomprehendable waste.


Clan Novel: Malkavian   January 10, 2001
Undercover Brother (Washington, DC United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book was the worst of the series. It is an extreme task to write a series of 13 novels. As a writer, I know this to be true. The writers must continue to hold the interest of the readers and they had done a great job up until this novel. Each novel took the reader deeper into the World of Darkness and made us interested in that world. The novels were easy to read and easy to follow. This one sets us back. I undersatnd that the writer tried to show us the "madness" of the protagonist but he forgot that this is a series and not a stand alone novel. It can easliy be skipped. If you want to enjoy the series as a unit skip it. There is a matter of style vs. subsatnce and the writer should have kept with the substance of the series and not the style of Anatole