![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the language comes from modern technical usage - "test run", "proof of concept". Sometimes it is too-modern habits of speech, such as the use of the singular 'they', which is just odd in that setting. Sometimes it is too-modern expressions - e.g., in this book "Ask not what you can do for your knight, but what the knight can do for you", in the mid-nineteenth century. The language in Journey is anachronistic, to the point where I find myself distracted from the pleasure of reading the story. ![]() Think of it as having a bad case of middle-book syndrome. In this case, the resulting collection does not have a center of gravity. Since the books are collections of sequential chapters from a web novel, book 4 starts after the last chapter collected in book 3 and continues for an approximately-book-length number of chapters. This book does suffer from bad luck in chapter sequencing. Book 4 centers on her transition from a lone vampire in hiding to a member of a larger vampire society. At the end of her journey she will either have made herself capable of saving the world - or she will have failed to do so. So she starts her journey with next to nothing. Most vampires in this milieu value 'young' vampires and protect them, but Ariane's progenitor isn't like most vampires, and those he turns have an extremely low survival rate. "A Journey of Black and Red" is the journey of Ariane, an early-nineteenth-century Louisiana teenager who became a vampire by being in the wrong place at the wrong time - and annoying the world's oldest vampire. ![]()
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