V is for Veritas (and Vivian Vande Velde)

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Secrets, duality, and truth have always been some of the my favourite literary themes, and every single one of Vivian Vande Velde's novels deals with these themes in some form. Whether it's vampires who are capable of love, people who don't know their own power, or (my personal favourite) dragons who turn out to have hearts of gold as well as scales, none of her characters are quite who they seem at first.