Saint-Germain is good to the extent that he has almost nothing with which to revile himself after four thousand years of life. He never kills, he fights for truth and justice, and he fights evil human males, usually in hand-to-hand combat, in order to right the wrongs they have inflicted or wish to inflict.

He has been referred to by critics as the Robin Hood of vampires and the Prince Charming of the darker arts. No one has yet referred to him as the Lone Vampire and his faithful companion, but the comparison is tempting. Some readers find this revisionist vampire novel form to be fascinating; others will not even pick it up, on the grounds that the vampire element has become sanitized to the point that there is no longer any horror or sense of lurking threat, and that the vampire level of self-acceptance is too high...