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Masks
Masks is set in Venice, when Mircea is young, poor, alone and recently changed. This was, to me, a sometimes dark story of survival when one has lost everything, is an an easy victim in a violent world. a world where he has not yet figured out if survival after the losses is going to be more than endless drudgery and sorrow. Mircea is one of my favorite characters-Dory being the favorite and reading about his beginnings in Venice was uncomfortable. He knew was not yet the powerful leader but I had expected the Mircea of dory's childhood. This is years earlier. The story covers not a growth of the powers he has in later stories, rather it examines his personal growth, his self discovery of who he is and will always be no matter human or vampire, slave or senator. Read this as pure adventure fantasy, as a tale of endings that turn to beginnings, as a fantastical spin on historical Venice..worth reading any way you like.