Feels like the crossover you never knew you needed between Vampire Hunter D and Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time.

As the name implies it's a dying Earth setting, so dying that humans are long extinct and the sole survivors are vampires toying with the remnants of human technology they barely understand but that basically allow them to shape their surroundings to their whims (and mostly dubious tastes). And fly in Zeppelins. They're content doing nothing but live in luxury and decadence waiting for their impending doom, or even hasten it with their petty schemes, but the protagonist isn't and he finds further reasons for dissatisfaction and hope as the story goes.

Purple prose warning I guess, but it was quite wild and charming. ( )

I'm sharing this for Terry Tyler's #AugustReviews and #FridayReads. Links on my blog: https://kyrosmagica.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/my-kyrosmagica-review-of-the-eterna...

Rating 4 stars
Well I love a good old vampire story, so I was really looking forward to reading this. The Eternals isn't quite a traditional vampire story. This is something else. These creatures are 'neither human nor vampire.'

I enjoyed The Eternals - particularly the descriptive passages, (you really can tell that the author, Richard. A Ankers is a poet too, ) which for a bit of a poetic soul like myself is absolutely wonderful.

I also really found myself chuckling along to some of the little touches of humour that liberally peppered the story. But, I did find the instant love, and some of the terms of endearment (at the beginning of the story,) between Jean, and Linka a little difficult to relate to, particularly if you consider that Jean has just lost his wife, (not much of a grieving period for our hero!) and killed Linka's sister, Chantelle. Though, there is more to this sibling relationship between Linka and Chantelle than meets the eye...... Either way, perhaps Eternals aren't prone to having much of an emotional attachment to their siblings. The Eternals is exciting in parts. Particularly in the second half of the novel, the pace picks up, and the eloquence of the prose more than made up for some minor irks that I had.

Overall, I'm a great fan of beautiful prose, and without a doubt The Eternals is absolutely chocka block full of wonderfully descriptive writing, and the dialogue flows well too.

So I'd recommend The Eternals for readers who:

Appreciate a more poetic type of writing.

Who'd enjoy going on an adventure with a hero who is used to women swooning at his feet, (or even dying for his return,) - perhaps a kind of ruthless, but charming Sean Connery - James Bond of Vampires! Sean Connery always was my unchallenged favourite James Bond - us ladies do like the charmingly rugged Scottish bad guys!

I do believe this is the first in a Trilogy so I will be interested to see how this series progresses.
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