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Sins of the 7
Shadow of Wrath: Part One: Caged [Part 1 of 5]
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If survival meant murdering an innocent person in cold blood every week, could you do it? Are you able to stick the knife into your opponent’s heart while they look at you with fear in their eyes? Life in the Arena turns everyone into sinners.
When a starving and homeless boy is kidnapped and brought to a modern-day gladiator arena, hidden deep within the abandoned city of Bimini, he is forced to fight for his life. The crude death matches are a source of enjoyment for Ryker, who resides over the Arena as its vicious master. Given the name Dog, the street boy must find a way to survive, even if it means murdering other innocent kids in combat at the expense of his humanity. With every dead body he leaves behind in the pit, the blood and the violence threatens to wake a beast inside him.Allegra, a slave girl in the pits and a victim of Ryker’s constant abuse, is his only key to salvation. She has lost everything already — her family, her innocence, and her dignity — while her will to live hangs on by a thin thread. Can she save Dog’s humanity before she too succumbs to the horrors of the Arena? With death casting it’s long shadow over everyone, how can anyone survive?A tale about survival, tragedy, and human perseverance, SHADOW OF WRATH allows us a glimpse into the world of the Sins of the 7.
The novelette Caged is the first part of Shadow of Wrath.
If survival meant murdering an innocent person in cold blood every week, could you do it? Are you able to stick the knife into your opponent’s heart while they look at you with fear in their eyes? Life in the Arena turns everyone into sinners.
When a starving and homeless boy is kidnapped and brought to a modern-day gladiator arena, hidden deep within the abandoned city of Bimini, he is forced to fight for his life. The crude death matches are a source of enjoyment for Ryker, who resides over the Arena as its vicious master. Given the name Dog, the street boy must find a way to survive, even if it means murdering other innocent kids in combat at the expense of his humanity. With every dead body he leaves behind in the pit, the blood and the violence threatens to wake a beast inside him.Allegra, a slave girl in the pits and a victim of Ryker’s constant abuse, is his only key to salvation. She has lost everything already — her family, her innocence, and her dignity — while her will to live hangs on by a thin thread. Can she save Dog’s humanity before she too succumbs to the horrors of the Arena? With death casting it’s long shadow over everyone, how can anyone survive?A tale about survival, tragedy, and human perseverance, SHADOW OF WRATH allows us a glimpse into the world of the Sins of the 7.
The novelette Caged is the first part of Shadow of Wrath.
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First published March 3, 2013
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About the author
L.W. Patricks
5 books108 followersLately L.W. Patricks has been telling everyone some half baked story of how he's the spawn of a typewriting chimp and a literary ninja while eating the soul of Unicorns to sustain his crazy imagination.
Here's the truth though: Ever since he opened that book of Fairy Tales when he was a kid, he loved reading and spent countless hours recreating a parallel universe where Red Riding Hood kung-fu kicked the wolf in the jugular and Snow White discovered a spell to merge all the dwarves together to form a Super-Dwarf that tossed the evil step-mother into the sun.
With this love for reading and writing, L.W. took it to the next level and published a book. Sadly no super human fairy tale characters (but it's always been on his radar).
His debut novel Shadow of Wrath is now published by Strange Crow Publications which can be described as "Hunger Games meets Gladiator -- a brutal young adult thriller."
Shadow of Wrath serves as a prelude to the Sins of the 7 series with Book One: AWAKE THE GHOSTS to be published late 2013.
His short fiction works has been published in multiple fiction magazines and enjoys writing contemporary fantasy with an emphasis on creating urban mythology for his stories.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario though he's travelled all over the world including Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, United Kingdom, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia just to name a few. His diverse experience amongst other cultures provides inspiration for his stories.
He currently live in Toronto with his wife where he enjoys the the hot summer days and the cold winter nights while his brain dances on a cloud against the backdrop of a shimmering starry night.
You can visit his website at www.lwpatricks.com or join his email list to receive some pretty awesome FREE stuff.
He promises that your email will never get spammed:
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Here's the truth though: Ever since he opened that book of Fairy Tales when he was a kid, he loved reading and spent countless hours recreating a parallel universe where Red Riding Hood kung-fu kicked the wolf in the jugular and Snow White discovered a spell to merge all the dwarves together to form a Super-Dwarf that tossed the evil step-mother into the sun.
With this love for reading and writing, L.W. took it to the next level and published a book. Sadly no super human fairy tale characters (but it's always been on his radar).
His debut novel Shadow of Wrath is now published by Strange Crow Publications which can be described as "Hunger Games meets Gladiator -- a brutal young adult thriller."
Shadow of Wrath serves as a prelude to the Sins of the 7 series with Book One: AWAKE THE GHOSTS to be published late 2013.
His short fiction works has been published in multiple fiction magazines and enjoys writing contemporary fantasy with an emphasis on creating urban mythology for his stories.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario though he's travelled all over the world including Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, United Kingdom, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia just to name a few. His diverse experience amongst other cultures provides inspiration for his stories.
He currently live in Toronto with his wife where he enjoys the the hot summer days and the cold winter nights while his brain dances on a cloud against the backdrop of a shimmering starry night.
You can visit his website at www.lwpatricks.com or join his email list to receive some pretty awesome FREE stuff.
He promises that your email will never get spammed:
http://lwpatricks.com/join-the-mailin...
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March 8, 2014
This book was extremely predictable, within the first two chapters I already knew the ending. It was a hard gritty kind of novel and I suspected immediately that there would be no happy ending. Even the twists and turns in the plot was predictable, and it was hard to find anything that really made reading this novel unique. Also, the "interludes" and "epilogue" for the book only confused matters, in that it was written from the POV of people who we never even see in the main story, and so I could care less what they had to say on the subject. It was also evident that this book still needs some copy editing work, as many times there were mistakes littered throughout that distracted even more from the story. As for family friendliness, I would say it is highly inappropriate for young kids and tweens to read this. If I had kids, this would be a novel that I would not allow them to read. However, it would be appropriate for college students and older.
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