Good morning! Well I say good, but I don't have enough coffee in my system to really justify that statement. So perhaps it should be, Morning! Where is the coffee?
And here we go.....
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Title: Revenge of the Wolf
Author: Skyler Patterson
Genre: Paranormal Romance / Horror
REVENGE OF THE WOLF is a story of paranormal romance/action/horror. This story is set in the early settled New York. A wealthy shape-shifting young man named Justice Sorrowfell falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Angelica Innocenta. When the woman is murdered, Justice goes on a spree of vengeance against all outlaws, in the form of a wolf, and a werewolf. Justice is urged on to continue his revenge by his un-dead fiancé Angelica. This is the first book of a series. This is a tale that gives the message that death is not always the end. This tale shows that true love cannot ever die.—SKYLER PATTERSON
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Book Title: Revenge of the Wolf
Author: Skyler Patterson
Publishing Date: June 6, 2015
Page/Word Count: 300 Pages
BLURB:
This is a tale of
romance/paranormal/action/horror. A wealthy young shape-shifter named
Justice Sorrowfell falls in love with a beautiful woman Angelica
Innocenta. When she is murdered, Justice goes on a spree of vengeance
against all outlaws in the form of a wolf and werewolf. This tale takes
place in colonial New York. Justice is urged on in his revenge by his
un-dead fiancé Angelica.
Pros: Great ideas, good characters
Cons: Not a big fan of the writing style
Overall rating: Would recommend it to others
Impressions: Strong story idea, strong characters, hard format to follow because of the writing style
Review:
So I got this book in exchange for an honest review. I am all about honestly. This was a good book but not written in a style that I am a fan of. I am all for giving your readers more then one point of view, but I have a problem with the "journal/diary" format this was done it. It made it harder to follow at times. Especially when ti changed from that style to regular book formatting. I just got a little lost.
Other then the formatting this book was definitely a good read. I loved the ideas given during the book. I am all about a good paranormal book and I can see this being a good series to follow. I just think that cleaning up the format a little will help it be easier to follow. Yes, I know I am harping a little. I have to wonder if this was sent in for editing more the once, just to help with the flow.
I do think that this book has great potential to be one of those series that goes on for a while. Skyler has written some strong characters and that means great potential in my book. If you have strong characters you can take them anywhere and they can carry your story.
I think with a little more polish I could go back and change my rating. But over all I would definitely recommend this book to others.
Excerpt:
Many a soul may ponder how it was, that a man of my wealth and sense of adventure came to be in such a predicament. It is said that a man cannot ever truly know anyone less he has walked in his shoes. For surely the words hold irony. For not a man could think to judge me less he could walk on all four of my legs, and howl by the fullest of moons. I can recall it like it was yesterday. And yet in truth it was many years prior. I was just a young green lad. On a hunt I was. Twas me and my brave father. On the hunt for game we had no luck. until we were both set upon by a pack of bedeviling wolves. One of the grievous death hounds, jumped into my path. The creature crouched growling preparing to pounce. The beast’s eyes were like red hot fires, his teeth like icy white death! The creature leapt at me. I raised my rifle. However my courage possessed no conviction and there I stood paralyzed in my fear! The beast lunged at me but I felt no fangs, and felt no blood spilling from my veins. The creature did manage to bite my woolen coat. The only sound I heard was the crack from my dear father’s rifle. And then the resounding thud as the beast fell lifeless on the cold dark ground. It was then my father told me words that I would never forget: “The wolves are the most devilish creatures on the earth! The wolf is the beast that hunts not on his own but amongst a pack. He is the creature that kills not in the light but from the dark shadows, and the light of the moon”. For strange as it was there was beauty in this horror and a horror to this beauty. For in time the moon turned, the horses gave way to the great steel snake called the train. I became a great man. I hunted game round the world. I fell in love. I became a soldier, and I became what others dreaded most… I became a wolf. And then my life began… I was a young man and grew up in a mansion on the Hudson. Who am i? My name is Justice Sorrowfell. But let us go back to when I first became the beast. It was weeks after that dreaded hunt. I was in my bed chamber at the manse, and noticed the puncture marks on my arm. I did not vex myself as I had felt no ill effects. It was many years later when I was entering manhood when I noticed a change. I went to sleep in my bed and awoke on the floor, curled up in front of my mirror. When I gazed into the mirror I saw not a young man but a wolf. I found that i could change into the beast at will. I also began to smell other beings and none of them were human. I could smell the horses in front of the estate. I could smell the mice within the cellar. I also could hear things from impossible distances. I also found that I could control other creatures. I could shape shift into bodies of Rats and birds; and I could have them to do my bidding. I told no one of my dark gift. It was my lone secret in all the world. I also developed an insatiable appetite for meat and none of it cooked. I began to have the house chef prepare for me meals of raw salmon fish, and other raw dishes. My dear father began to think me growing dim. For me it made no matter. It was soon after that I met an exquisite woman. In love I fell madly. This woman was the most beautiful creation that god did see fit to bestow to walk amongst this earth. Raven of hair she was. The woman had a round perfect face with cheekbones high. The woman was shapely as an hourglass. And indeed I did spend hours admiring her face and body. The woman had light grey piercing eyes. For this woman gazing upon me truly could never fail to pierce my heart, like a proper dagger. Angelica was her name. And in all truth god certainly removed an angel from his heaven that she could walk this earth with a soul such as myself. I courted her about the city. We dined in the finest eateries, and her arm stayed entwined in mine through the very best operas. It was in the hazy days of summer when I fell down into that blissful well called..love. Let us begin our story there. Let us begin when I was more happier than now. Let us go back to before things shattered like an expensive vase in my father’s Victorian den. Let us go back to when i first met..HER.
Stars: A very tentative 4 out of 5, I would say more like 3 1/2 but you can't do half on sites :)
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AUTHOR BIO:
How did I become a writer? My story
could be a book of itself. I will not lie. I am the “accidental
writer”. I have been working in health care for many years. It was
when i decided to read books on my way to work that I stumbled upon
the possibility of writing. How did it happen? I take the train to
get to my job in N.Y.. I had become bored with reading the daily
newspapers .It was then that I decided to read a book instead. Mind
you, I had not read a book in years! I proceeded to read books by
J.R. Tolkien, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, and George M. Martin. I found
those books sooo cool! I love fantasy fiction. It was when I became
addicted to a certain series; that it happened. I read every book
from that series and when I asked the book store clerk when there
would be more the man gave me terrible news. “Ha, that guy puts
out a book every five years. “WHAT”? I could not believe that. It
was then that I began to wonder what if I (yes me) could write a book
myself. This was a joke to me until I came up in minutes with a plot
for a fantasy fiction tale. HOW did I do that!? The plot was way TOO
COOL to just do nothing with. And I will not lie. I made every type
of mistake one could make in learning how to write. I have had no
formal training and I successfully dropped out of college, years ago!
That first idea became THE BOOK OF SWORDS, a medieval styled swords
and sorcery epic. That book gave me many headaches, before I learned
how to write it!(great e book that it is) So I took a break and
wrote: THE LAST KRAKEN, a tale of a giant, leviathan squid running
amok, in the 1800’s. It was when I was writing that book that I
began to realize that I had somehow in only a little more than a
year became an author. I finished that first book. I then proceeded
to test a chapter of it on my school teacher sister. My sister
invited me over to hear my tale. My sister gave me many words of
encouragement: “Let’s all have a good laugh”! were her words! I
read her a chapter. After I read that chapter my sister began to
stutter and jaws were dropping everywhere! “HOW IN THE HELL”?!
were her words! And then I began to write another book called REVENGE
OF THE WOLF. One day I passed my laptop to a girl I was dating and
asked her to read an emotional turning point of this
romance/action/horror story. As she was reading it; I was in awe as
the woman slowly began to cry! I then spent the rest of that year
writing many books. And here I am! I am in this for the long haul. I
am now an author/poet/songwriter. My journey just goes to show that
one can never truly know what they are capable of; until they give it
that one good try! I can truly say I LOVE WRITING.---SKYLER PATTERSON
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