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    Rauch und Schatten: Die Tony-Chroniken 1

    By Tanya Huff

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    Henry Fitzroy, Bastardsohn Heinrichs VIII., ist Vampir und Autor von Liebesromanen, der, unterstützt von seinem Freund Tony Foster und weiteren Verbündeten, bereits mehrere okkulte Fälle in Toronto aufklären konnte.
    Als Tony in Vancouver einen Job als Produktionsassistent bei "Darkest Night“ findet, einer TV-Serie über - ausgerechnet - die Abenteuer eines Vampirdetektivs, kehren die beiden Freunde Toronto den Rücken.
    Während der aktuellen Produktion bemerkt Tony, dass die Schatten am Filmset ein unheilvolles Eigenleben entwickeln, und schon bald darauf wird die Leiche einer jungen Schauspielerin gefunden.
    Unversehens finden sich Tony und Henry mitten in ihrem bisher gefährlichsten Abenteuer. Gemeinsam mit der Magierin Arra ziehen sie gegen den Herrn der Schatten zu Felde, der die Welt mit Dunkelheit und Zerstörung zu überziehen droht.
    Offenbar kann nichts diesen übermächtigen Gegner aufhalten, und als die Freunde die kalte Berührung der Schatten am eigenen Leib erfahren müssen, scheint alles verloren ...
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherFeder & Schwert
    Release dateJan 21, 2015
    ISBN9783867622400
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    • 3/5
      Lots of plot.
    • 4/5
      As an offshoot of the Blood books this beginnings of a new series stands on its own while still paying homage to its predecessor.
    • 2/5
      This is a spinoff of the Blood Ties series, which I never read. Tony, a former hustler who had a relationship with the vampire Henry Fitzroy (yes, the illegitimite child of Henry VIII) has struck out on his own and is now working on a tv show about a vampire detective. Evil hijinks ensue. The characters and dialogue are clunky and the jokes are far from clever, but it's readable.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book and loved this series but I just had to cull out some books. I am a Tanya Huff fan and generally like anything she's written. I've moved away from Vampires though so maybe that's why I'm letting this one go.
    • 4/5
      Smoke and Shadows is a spinoff from Tanya Huff?s other series, the Blood Books. I haven?t read the Blood Books but I didn?t feel they were necessary to understand this new series. In Smoke and Shadows, Tony Foster and vampire Henry Fitzroy have relocated to Vancouver where Tony is working as a production assistant in a low-budget TV show. Trouble has relocated as well; Tony begins to notice shadows acting strangely and cast and crew getting possessed. He then becomes involved in the drama of a wizard turned special effects specialist, and a dark lord trying to break across dimensions.Smoke and Shadows reads a lot like a pulp novel, or a B-list horror story similar to the very show that Tony works on. However, it?s aware of its own cheesiness and runs with it. Tony tosses one-liners and jokes even when the going gets tough, and his situations parody the over-the-top antics of the fantasy and horror genres. Dark lords? Evil shadows? Vampire detectives? High literature this ain?t, and it never tries to be. Instead it?s just plain old fun and hijinks.Sometimes it fails. Sometimes the cheesiness stops being amusing and gets annoying. But most of the time it works. Smoke and Shadows also has interesting characters that I would like to get to know better in the future books? how often do you get a gay, ex-street boy protagonist? Or a grouchy old woman who blows things up for a living? Also, bonus points for being set in Canada and making jokes about Canadian cinema and other Canadian quirks. Saving the world by public transportation!
    • 1/5
      This had so much promise but the story is boring and slow. I was also very discombobulated with the POV changing from character to character in the middle of dialog or a descriptive paragraph. It was so jarring and confusing I would have to reread the page to figure out where the POV changed. Usually it wasn't even clear. I think remaining with one character's perspective until a section break is as important as punctuation in a book.

      I'm also confused about these relationships because two of the characters came from earlier series' but I just don't care enough about anyone in it to stick with it. There is no emotion, no indication of how Tony feels other than when he lusts after someone. In fact, he doesn't react at all at times when logic dictates he should. He feels like a robot; a nice robot, but still a robot.

      Then there's the fact that there isn't even a hint of romance. Even UF books with male protagonists written by male authors usually have even a little romance: the character misses/avenges/is hurt by an old flame; he finds a woman attractive but doesn't connect and that leaves him wanting; he is lonely. Things like that.

      I really wanted to like this series but I'm so bored.
    • 4/5
      I think I actually liked this better than the Blood books - Tony is just a more likable character, and I have never objected to a little high fantasy in my urban fantasy. It certainly kept me up far too late finishing it.

      Also worth mentioning that Tanya Huff is spectacular at writing gay and bi characters whose sexuality is no more worthy of special comment than her straight ones. It's one of the reasons I like her so much.
    • 4/5
      I like this. More in Henry and Vicki's universe, with both Henry and Tony showing new facets - Tony more than Henry, but then the boy was hardly more than a cipher before. Now he's much more a real person. And fitting nicely into the current fad for urban fantasy...wizard, huh? Shadows were scary, solution was reasonable, obstacles were realistic not contrived...well, it is a Tanya Huff. Good book.
    • 4/5
      This was a fun book. As Usual, Tanya Huff writes a solid book. Unfortunately, this one didn't hold my attention like the books in "Blood" Series. In this book you have Tony and Henry living in Vancouver. Tony is trying to make a new, independent life outside of the Vicki and Henry, and Henry is, as usual being Henry.The book started off slow, and I had a hard time following the individual characters on Tony's production set for a syndicated TV show. When characters start dying, I had a hard time placing who they were. I thought Tony was annoying in the first half of the book, but he redeemed himself by taking control in the second half. I liked what Tanya Huff did with the relationship with Henry and Tony - Tony trying to find the boundary between friendship with a Vampire versus being a Vampires tool and Henry keeping to the line that Tony set.I also didn't like the fact the evil overlord was evil for the sake of the book with no further motivation. The Sorcerer Arra is an interesting character, but seems a bit shallow. The ending was also too pat, too easy.For all the books problems, you really care about the characters of Tony and Arra. Henry is featured, but is only a secondary character. While this book can be read without reading any of the books set in Huff's "Blood" series, there are a few references to Vicki and what she is currently up to. So if you haven't finished the original series, you might want to hold off with this book until you do.
    • 5/5
      Former street urchin, Tony Foster, has moved to Vancouver with his vampire patron, Henry Fitzroy. Determined to take charge of his new life Tony has gotten himself an education, a job and an apartment of his own. However, when things start getting funkier than the norm on the set of the television show he works on, he knows it is not something he can handle alone. It may not even be something he can survive with the help of a other-worldly witch and a vampire.I read the first two books of Huff's Blood series a couple years ago. I never continued on with the series for a few different reasons, primarily a slight frustration with the writer's method and an annoyance because it always felt to me like she was holding back on the best parts. I also had issues with the main character of Vicky Nelson. On the other hand, I do remember having a fondness for Tony's character even back then and when I discovered that the author went on to write a trilogy featuring Tony, it peaked my interest enough to check it out. I'm really glad I did! Although there were parts that reminded me of my annoyances with the writing style, it was much easier to overlook because I really like Tony's character. He has a great sense of humor both about his occupation as a Production Assistant on a syndicated television show and about himself. I also really like the dynamic between Tony and Henry, with Henry really trying to do the friend thing when his primal instinct is more of a predator/prey/possessive thing. The television studio setting is fascinating, with lots of behind the scenes looks at the show production that I found intriguing. There were certainly parts of the story I wish the author had offered more illumination on, but generally I was much more satisfied with the writing overall. It was one of those rare books where once I got to the end I was sad it was all over. Needless to say I will be moving on to the next book in the series and am really looking forward to reading more about Tony along with his experiences, both in the surreal world of television and in the realm of the paranormal.
    • 3/5
      This series follows Henry Fitzroy and his friend and ex-lover Tony. Unfortunately I just wasn't interested in them and found Arra a much more interesting character - wish Tanya Huff would write about her.
    • 5/5
      Oh, man. Seriously, I love Tanya Huff's books. I liked Vicki and Celluci a lot (in the Blood books and the TV show), but I really adore Tony. My sister pretty much told me I would, and it was nice that Smoke and Shadows didn't let me down. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
    • 4/5
      Smoke and Shadows is a spinoff from Tanya Huff’s other series, the Blood Books. I haven’t read the Blood Books but I didn’t feel they were necessary to understand this new series. In Smoke and Shadows, Tony Foster and vampire Henry Fitzroy have relocated to Vancouver where Tony is working as a production assistant in a low-budget TV show. Trouble has relocated as well; Tony begins to notice shadows acting strangely and cast and crew getting possessed. He then becomes involved in the drama of a wizard turned special effects specialist, and a dark lord trying to break across dimensions.Smoke and Shadows reads a lot like a pulp novel, or a B-list horror story similar to the very show that Tony works on. However, it’s aware of its own cheesiness and runs with it. Tony tosses one-liners and jokes even when the going gets tough, and his situations parody the over-the-top antics of the fantasy and horror genres. Dark lords? Evil shadows? Vampire detectives? High literature this ain’t, and it never tries to be. Instead it’s just plain old fun and hijinks.Sometimes it fails. Sometimes the cheesiness stops being amusing and gets annoying. But most of the time it works. Smoke and Shadows also has interesting characters that I would like to get to know better in the future books– how often do you get a gay, ex-street boy protagonist? Or a grouchy old woman who blows things up for a living? Also, bonus points for being set in Canada and making jokes about Canadian cinema and other Canadian quirks. Saving the world by public transportation!
    • 5/5
      This is the first of a trilogy, though it uses some of the characters from Huff's Blood Ties series. The focal character is Tony Foster, the gay street kid from Toronto. He now lives in Vancouver, as does Henry Fitzroi, the vampire who started life as the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII of England. Tony is now working as a production assistant on a third-rate TV show about a vampire detective. Things get stranger than usual when Tony notices shadows behaving in an un-shadowlike manner. The plot involves a wizard and a Shadowlord from another world. Sounds cheesy, perhaps, but Huff is an excellent writer, and the characters and plot are up to her usual standards.
    • 4/5
      As an offshoot of the Blood books this beginnings of a new series stands on its own while still paying homage to its predecessor.
    • 4/5
      First book in the Smoke Trilogy, sequel to the Blood books. More vampire Henry Fitzroy. So far they're just as much fun as the first series, although I miss Vicki and Mike.
    • 2/5
      Light entertaining fun. I had a great time reading it and couldn't put it down.
    • 4/5
      It doesn't have Vicky Nelson, but it's the same world. Henry the vampire and a new sidekick sort out an invading wizard. Some rather fun depictions of making TV from an insider bottom-feeder point of view (Production Assistant) and some nice little twists and turns too.
    • 4/5
      Tony is now working for a tv show, the show is about a vampire detective, he's also trying very hard to avoid Henry. Mostly because how he feels about him.When a murder happens Tony suspects that it might be something to do with how shadows are behaving strangely around the studio, and when he discovers that the Special Effects Wizard is a real wizard his suspicions are confirmed. She escaped from another world to get to this one away from the shadows and now she has to fight them again, her instinct is to run again, will Tony sway her?A sequel to the Blood series and interesting in how the characters have developed.
    • 5/5
      This first in the series featuring Tony Foster was a very enjoyable read, and a book I am happy to have on my shelf. It had its moments of tension, though it?s chiefly action and humor. It also had touching scenes, though they were chiefly of the ?friends? variety between Henry and Tony. I prefer this book (and its sequels) to the Blood series which started the characters, probably because I empathize better with Tony than I did with Vicky.The plot and characterizations were solid, and though they sometimes fell back on clich?s it seemed intentional. I don?t know much about the lives of TV-show cast and crew, but I do have (stage) theatre background and so picked up on some of the inside jokes that way.There wasn?t really anything in this book that would make me hesitate to recommend it, unless you completely dislike magic. There?s not enough magic in it to be a hindrance to most people, but I have known a few that would hate it for the magical content. Other than that, I think it?s a book that everyone can love.
    • 4/5
      This is the most recent book in a series I?ve been following for a while. Huff built an intricate mythological world out of modern day Toronto and, in its turn, Vancouver. Henry Fitzroy, vampire, is the historical son of Henry the eighth who died at 18. He is short, cute, and ginger-headed, not at all the vampire type. And Vicki, a Toronto ex-cop who was discharged on disability, has no time for him or the stranger beings that come attached to the tail of his sports jacket. For a change of venue, in Smoke and Shadows we have no Vicki, and Tony, the gay street boy that Henry took under his protection in earlier books, is all grown up. After years of living with a little too much protection for comfort, he would really rather there was no Henry, either. But, darn it, with all these recent hauntings at work, who else is a guy to turn to but his pretty royal undeadness?
    • 4/5
      I find Tanya Huff a mixed bag. I liked all the Vicki Nelson books (even if some of the themes did get a bit disturbing by the time we got to Huff's riff on Frankenstein's monster) and the first Keeper book. I found the second in that series so-so and never finished the third. Most of her others haven't done anything special for me, although I did like her early pair of books about Crystal. All of this meant I ordered Smoke and Shadows when it came out, but didn't rush to read it. This is sort of a spin-off from the Vicki Nelson books in that it is about Tony, who moved to Vancouver with Henry after he moved on to leave the Toronto territory to Vicki. It's five years later now and Tony has moved out of Henry's place and is trying to make his own space in the world. He's working as a PA on the set of a syndicated TV show about - wait for it - a vampire detective. Tony was only a minor character in Vicki's books, but I liked him when we turned up and it is nice to see him finding himself now. The scars of his past haven't vanished, but he's dealt with a lot of them and the things he learned on the Toronto streets and in company of first Vicki and then Henry are going to help him out as he finds himself having his own mystical adventures. Ignore the blurb above; since the wizard in question is a she rather than a he and Tony is a pretty low-level member of the production crew, I wonder if the person who wrote it even read the book. Henry is less of a presence here; he's a main character, but he's playing second fiddle to Tony - something he probably wouldn't appreciate if he knew about it. The secondary characters are all well drawn, although some are more fleshed out that others. The wizard, Arra, is a nicely motivated character even if those motives are less than pure and the more realistic for it. This was a good, solid and enjoyable read. It was nice to see familiar character again, and better that their previous adventures had changed them enough that they were also new characters at the same time. There are a few pop-culture references that readers may or may not get (I did like Tony's comment that with everything that was happening and likely to happen, he had a lot more sympathy now with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season six version of Buffy Summers) but they don't overwhelm the story enough to be annoying. This was part of my summer reading and it has been perfect for that. While there are references back to the Vicki books, you don't need to have read them (although they are worth the time), so get out and give this one a go.
    • 1/5
      This book seems like one the author wrote in a rush to meet contractual obligation. This is the first book of Huff's that I've read, so it is possible it's just her style that's off-putting. This is the first book in a new series, but the main character appeared in a previous series; the secondary character was the main character of that series. I thought frequently about abandoning this book early on, but finished it because for the sole sake of completion.