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Title: Valentine's Resolve (Vampire Earth | Book 6)
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Author: E.E. Knight
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Review of Valentine's Resolve (Vampire Earth | Book 6)

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• Posted on 2009-06-29
  Good read
  
  Knight does an outstanding job of keeping me turning the page, I can't wait for the next book in July.
  
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• Posted on 2009-04-06
  Up Northwest in Search of Lifeweavers!
  
  "Valentine's Resolve" is the sixth volume of the Vampire Earth series; I strongly recommend reading the preceding volumes or at least "Valentine's Exile" before reading this one.
  E. E. Knight (b. 1965) has developed a thrilling saga, where the writer mixes different genres fluently: sci-fi, fantasy, terror, military & thriller giving way to vibrant & gripping tales.
  In this book the author recovers the series Ă©lan somewhat diluted in the preceding volume.
  The whole series is placed in post-apocalyptic scenery where an alien race, the Kur, has subdued all Earth powers installing a reign of terror & servitude over humankind.
  Some human enclaves still resist and confront Kurian Order. They are backwater regions that stubbornly fight to remain free.
  These free communes are aided by other ancient aliens the Lifeweavers that train humans and develop latent potentialities within them creating Wolves, Cats and Bears to fight the Kurian & Kurian Reapers with some chances to succeed. Wolves work in packs with military organization similar to commandos. Cats are loners that work behind enemy lines as spies, saboteurs or assassins. Bears are dangerous berserks able to kill Reapers & Kurians almost singlehanded and operate in small teams.
  
  The main character is David Valentine. He has been a Wolf (see "Way of the Wolf") afterwards a trainee Cat (see "Choice of the Cat") and an autonomous Cat fulfilling his own mission (see "Tale of the Thunderbolt"). His most resounding mission has been to create havoc behind Kurian lines and lead the resistance in a fateful siege (see "Valentine's Rising"). Afterwards he is prosecuted and evades death penalty by a forced exile (see "Valentine's Exile").
  
  While Valentine is wandering in his exile, he is secretly retrieved by top officers of Southern Command and sent north in search of Lifeweavers that had suddenly vanished from the southern enclaves.
  Valentine starts his dangerous trip and en route meets different friends & foes. When he finally arrives to Pacific Command and finds a dreadful situation giving way to new and exciting adventures.
  
  The author explores in depth the feelings and emotions of Valentine forced to act ruthlessly and cruelly. How can he reconcile this with his natural humanitarian self? Is he justified? The reader will decide, Valentine can't and his conscience tortures him relentlessly.
  
  Another interesting issue of this series is that Valentine is not immune to his hazardous life, he bore scars all over his body and one of his legs gives him permanently trouble. This adds to flesh a real person and not a stainless iron hero.
  
  This is a book that may be enjoyed by sci-fi, fantasy and action adepts as well as general public too.
  Only one caution (applicable to the whole series): some scenes are really truculent, be warned.
  Reviewed by Max Yofre.
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-03-18
  Great Read!
  
  After reading one of E. E. Knights "Vampire Earth" novels I HAD TO read the rest. This was another great one. The ones not available in my local library were immediately ordered from Amazon and devoured upon receipt. David Valentine is one of the best characters to come along in a long time and you just have to root for him. Lot's of action and real neat little plot twist toward the end. Anxiously awaiting the next one!
  
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• Posted on 2008-07-27
  running out of steam?
  
  E.E. Knight's "Valentine's Resolve" is the sixth installment in the Vampire Earth series. The series is set in post-apocalyptic Earth, in which an alien species at war with itself uses humanity as a pawn. The plot of the books, however, is not the strength; rather, Knight creates compelling and often believably conflicted characters. The protagonist, David Valentine, remains intriguing in this book, but with much less depth than in the first five. Knight seems to have tried to confer to Valentine the literary equivalent to the "10,000 yard stare"; he seems tired, somewhat bitter, and resigned to his lot, but it doesn't entirely work. Even the brief interludes with Valentine's old mentor and partner Duvalier are not enough rekindle the spark. I can't escape the feeling that Valentine is running out of steam.
  
  While the series never was entirely plot driven, the flow of this book truly meanders across scenes that neither provide depth of character nor create an especially interesting story. Book six is driven purely out of the impressive momentum generated through the previous books. If you've read them, then without doubt you'll read this one. However weak the effort in book six, it can hardly derail the rest of the startlingly good Vampire Earth series. All of us who've read this series recognize E.E. Knight as a writer worth reading.
  
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• Posted on 2008-07-10
  Terrifying, Thrilling, Always Interesting
  
  Reviewed by Vicky Burkholder
  on 07/10/2008
  
  Knight's post-apocalyptic science fiction series continues with this newest installment. David Valentine has left the Southern Command, one of the main sources of resistance against the Kur--the aliens who have invaded Earth. Knight's strength lies in his detailed and believable idea of how society could evolve after we've been taken over by intelligent but malevolent beings.
  
  The opening chapter - and much of the book - is violently graphic, but that is the setting for the story. It is not gratuitous, but necessary to the plot and the development of the story. The character of Valentine undertakes a difficult mission to infiltrate the resistance in the Pacific Northwest, which he does. The story is about Valentine's struggles, but it is also about ourselves and how we would cope with invaders--and at what cost. Knight does this with a deft hand and amazing skill. His world building abilities are beyond scope.
  
  I have to admit to not having read the other books in this series, but that is not an issue. This is an excellent stand-alone book. I read it and enjoyed it, and understood what was going on without feeling lost, like I often do with other series. I'm probably going to pick up the others to read just to find out what happened earlier. If I had any problems, it was possibly with the darkness of Valentine. He seemed almost too morose at times, though granted, with the story as it is, I'd be morose too. I also found I could not read the book in the evening as I became susceptible to frightening dreams, a weakness of mine that proves good story telling on the part of the author. The story stuck with me.
  
  This is a terrifying, thrilling, at times graphically disgusting, but always interesting book that will not disappoint fans of the Vampire Earth series.
  
  4.5 Books
  
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