Yikes!! Too much, I thought. So, going into my typical angst of: "How can I shorten this and keep it simple," it dawned on me.
I am not a journalist, a critic, a professional reviewer, or a paid synopsis writer.
I am an typical book lover who just happens to be picky about what she reads. I'm a woman with two step-kids, a husband, and an 82-year-old mother-in-law to care for whilst trying to get our media company off the ground and write my own original stories and such.
I created this site out of my love for all things dark and spooky, without compensation or a paid professional editor or marketer. So, please keep that in mind.
If you want a synopsis, visit Amazon. If you want a professional critique or review, there are many out there. If you want to know why you should go out and buy The Vampire Earth books, I can help you with that.
Books are a way for me and most other book lovers, I'm sure, to escape into a different world. I just happen to like to escape into dangerous and scary places. The Vampire Earth is a dangerous and scary place.
From the first page of Way of the Wolf you are drawn into a post-apocalyptic world where humans are not only food, but an endangered species. A place where vampiristic aliens rule through subjugation and terror. Helped along by not only their blood-sucking puppets, the reapers, human traitors called quislings, but also a whole array of other nasty things. Put these elements all together and you've just stepped into a post-apocolyptic, vampire-infested world of hurt.The world is complex, multi-layered, and if made into a good movie, would make for one hell of a blockbuster.
As you are led from book to book in the series, the world gets richer, deeper, and even more complex until finally you are drawn in so completely that you can imagine the whole circumstance surrounding the stories as being absolutely plausible.
The layers of this world are so deep that you can visualise every detail of it right down to a single strand of prairie grass. E.E. Knight weaves a tale so exquisite that your mind can even be tricked into thinking that you smell the campfires at Southern Command HQ, and feel the pain when David Valentine relives the murder of his family.
E.E. Knight has created a world that pulls you in, and no matter how bad things get you just have to keep reading like you are a part of it. You become the characters. You are David Valentine, Ahn-Kha, or Duvalier. You feel what they feel, experience the danger and excitement they do.
The characters are so well fleshed out that they could be people you know; your brother, sister or best friend. Even the alien vampires and their human minions are written so well that you hate them as much as the characters do.
So, if you want to be led on an adventure of a lifetime filled with darkness and light, struggle and hope, filled with real life characters that could be standing right outside your front door, pick up at least the first three volumes of The Vampire Earth. Once you read the first book you won't want to stop.
To find E.E. Knight online, visit my interview with him for links.
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