The Way of the Wolf
Book One of the Vampire Earth Series
Posted on 10/13/2003 5:03:31 AM PDT by Jeff Head
I bought and read E.E. Knight's (Freeper snake65), Way of the Wolf and promised I would review it for other Freepers.
This is that review.
The Way of the Wolf is the first in a three part series entitled, Vampire Earth.
This is not your typical vampire, guts, gore and supernatural book. Quite frankly, if it had been, I would never have read it.
This book is an exciting and compelling read about a fictional future where the legends of earth's vampires resulted from a prior contact between mankind and an alien race that is at war with itself over the use of human and other species life auroa.
In the book,the part of that race that has committed itself to using human life auroa to prolong its own life has taken over the earth and the story is set in that post apocalyptic era.
E.E. Knight spins about as exciting and interesting a yarn as you will read. It is one of the better sci-fi novels I have read in the last ten years and it is about the fight for liberty and freedom against almost unimaginable odds by a people determined to retain their liberty.
My only issue with the novel, and it is one admittedly of my own making, is that there was simply too much profanity and one fairly explicit sex scene for me or my family's personal values and faith.
I find myself feeling that it is, in a sense, too bad because I really wanted to find out what happens in the ensuing novels, The Choice of the Cat and. The Tale of the Thunderbolt. Not too bad that I have those values mind you...because our society is founded upon and based upon a retention of those values by the majority of the families and individuals in America IMHO...but too bad that such a rich and intriguing story found it necessary to include them.
All the same, I must say that E.E. Knight does tell a rich, intriguing, exciting and compelling story that is very hard to put down!
Another review I made of Freeper snake65's (E.E. Knight) book. His books, like yours, are also actually published by the traditional method...quite an accomplishment, and for good reason too.
Did you go the route of 'self publishing' or did a major house pick it up?
He was picked up (and very deservedly so) by a PenguinPutnam imprint called Roc.
Congrats are in order!
Actually it was kind of a strange road to publication.
Originally an experimental imprint by AOL/TW Book Group called iPublish put it out as an ebook/Print-On-Demand. It had an editor, cover art, all that, so it wasn't self published.
They imploded in Dec 2001 with a lot of other dot-coms...my agent reverted the rights to me again (because they failed to publish the second book) and we were able to sell it to Penguin Group (who put it out in September 2003 through Roc).
WOLF did well, it's in its third printing now and the next in the series, CHOICE OF THE CAT, seems to be selling well.
Anyway, that's my story. Thanks Jeff!
New book out! Cool, will go shopping this weekend.
I wish you the absolute very best as your series continues. I know you have a GREAT future in store.
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