The Vampire Clan Novel series broke all records for World of Darkness fiction when, throughout 1999 and 2000, it told an epic story through cross-cutting novels and carefully time-stamped chapters. Now, the entire epic is represented in four beautiful trade format volumes. The Clan Novel Saga reorganizes the chapters from all 13 novels (and the Clan Novel Anthology) in strict chronological order, showing the progress of the epic night by night and even minute by minute.
Bloody September
Volume Three covers August and September of 1999: The vampires of the Sabbat continue their advance up the East Coast, into Buffalo and Hartford; the Camarilla struggles to hold Baltimore and reels from the news of a greater threat still: the Eye of Hazimel. Assassins, spies and schemers all work to gain possession of this cursed artifact, all of them paying a cost in blood.
The Malkavian and some of the Tremere sections were still unnecessarily mystified mumbo-jumbo (which is particularly bad for the Tremere, who should be analytical about their stuff), but overall good action and good story. I find it funny that I'm 3/4 through the series, and the big bad is still barely mentioned (I assume that thing underground will be more relevant than the Eye in the end). Seemingly everything is more important than that thing.
Hannah's contingency plan with the statue is a slow burn. Victoria is still an annoying twat, zero sympathies there. Ramona is less relevant in this than in book 2, but still there and kicking. Lucita I really hate though. Not because of her character, but how her action scenes are written. Tally by all accounts should have beaten her, but for every action he does, Lucita has like three. He attacks her, she parries, and by that she gets time to do something else, and then some. I wanted some great showdown between the two, and I got some dumb fight. Fatima should go and eat grass. You are an experienced and more important disciplined killer. Lucita, one of your targets is right there, weakened. You kill her. But no, she has feelings. You are hundreds of years old, get the hell over them and kill the easy mark when you can. How the hell did she get to her position is a mystery. Hesha is boring as usual.