From the Romantic Times Sapphire award winning author of the Internationally best‑selling Elfhome series.
REBUILD A LIFE, SAVE A CITY
Silas Decker had his world destroyed when he was attacked by vampires outside of New Amsterdam. He has rebuilt his life a dozen times in the last three hundred years—each time less and less successfully. Now he lives alone, buried under a hoarding habit, struggling to find some reason to wake up with the setting of the sun.
Eloise is a Virtue, pledged to hunting evil. What she doesn’t know is how to live alone in a city full of strangers who know nothing about monsters.
Seth is the sixteen‑year old Prince of Boston, ward of the Wolf King. Now he is left in a city that desperately needs his protection with enemies gathering all around.
Joshua believes he is a normal, college‑bound high school senior. His life is shattered when he wakes up in a field, covered with blood, and the prom committee scattered in pieces about him like broken dolls.
These four must now come together to unravel a plot by Wickers, witches who gain power from human sacrifices and have the power to turn any human into their puppet. Four people who lost everything struggle to save Boston by saving each other.
-
WOW!!!!!!!!!In a story about monsters ,the book's main points are about how important good,loyal & loving families & friends are. And that the worst monsters are human shaped ones. I do agree that Wen Spencer has wrote a fun & wonder filed world
Posted on
-
Excellent new universeI love how Wen can build such a believable world, fill it with dramatic plot & still have character development & humor.
I just love how instead of a terrifying beast -- we have a confused teen being taken over by a puppy werewolf. The bunnies & "conflicted over running away" -- such an interesting twist on the urban fantasy setting.
Highly recommendPosted on
-
Fun! Quality! MetaReview based on the complete eARC and snippets from a possible sequel story.
My wife (a trained proof reader) has trouble reading an eARC, so she made me read aloud the Thanksgiving scenes after the fourth time I burst out laughing. The characters and dialogue are great.
Personally I love an author that gives you a decent Epilogue, or final chapter, one of Wen Spencer’s skill as an author.
Just like Wen Spencer’s popular Elfhome series, there are memorable character exploring a new world, with humor, high stakes, forging of friendships and allies helping solve the little problems (cooking a turkey) to huge problems (saving the Eastern seaboard of North America).
Wen Spencer is also skilled at writing stores were the characters are well versed in contemporary knowledge of Sci-Fi/ Fantasy and hooking her worlds on to anchors from a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie marathon, Ms. Peel from the original BBC Avengers, Lord of the Rings novels. Drawing parallels between the story and awareness of Sci-Fi/ Fantasy, then going in memorable direction. “Write what you know” in this case is expanded to “Write what you and your audience knows”. These real world details pull the reader into a world that feels whole, messy and complex without losing the reader in boring paragraphs of exposition.
Wen Spencer is always entertaining, but upon rereading you realize she hides some very deep thoughts and discussions in her books similar to Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, and Lois McMaster Bujold.
Because Baen always allows a generous amount of sample chapters, feel free to read them to check it out first.
http://www.baen.com/the-black-wolves-of-boston.html
FINPosted on
-
It's excellent but...First - my one and only reason for the 4/5 score - the world was not shown only through the eyes of the main character - it was shown through the eyes of several characters - every one of them with their own information, every one giving you a piece of the puzzle to put in a picture of the book world. Any maybe there's too much information coming in at once. In my opinion - getting to know the world only through the eyes of a person who just enters it - and knowing only as much as this person - would have made it easier on the reader to become part of the world. With that been said - the author yet again creates an universe that I wanna know about - the more the better - I wanna read the next book and the next. Yet again the author turns your world view around - the werewolves don't have their standard role, the vampire is a hoarder etc. Oh and maybe one last note - from a dude's point of view - too much love and romance - but maybe that's just me.
Posted on
-
Posted on
-
Posted on