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Muttopia #1
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Kaidlyn Durant survived the apocalypse to become the most celebrated gunslinger in the Federal Bureau of Human Safety, an organization sworn to protect her country from an insidious plague.
While citizens cower behind the iron gates and machine gun turrets of a police state, Kaidlyn’s team fights an endless parade of beasts. Mutts, the unfortunate creatures infected with lycanthropy, masquerade as benign humans until their dark urges inevitably overwhelm their humanity. Like time bombs with teeth, eventually all mutts rampage and leave a trail of body parts.
No matter how many monsters she kills, Kaidlyn can’t save everyone. A string of gruesome murders ensnares her in an investigation that will change everything she believes. Again.
She finds allies where she least expected: an L-positive smuggler who can answer her most burning questions. For a price.
Rainer, a dissident familiar with the black market, discovers one of Kaidlyn’s illicit secrets and plans to leverage his findings to gain her cooperation. If he can survive her temper long enough to convince her that not all mutts are evil, they might change the world.
The two unlikely compatriots unite in a gamble of redemption and hope. With any luck, they’ll make a difference before they find themselves in front of a firing squad.
While citizens cower behind the iron gates and machine gun turrets of a police state, Kaidlyn’s team fights an endless parade of beasts. Mutts, the unfortunate creatures infected with lycanthropy, masquerade as benign humans until their dark urges inevitably overwhelm their humanity. Like time bombs with teeth, eventually all mutts rampage and leave a trail of body parts.
No matter how many monsters she kills, Kaidlyn can’t save everyone. A string of gruesome murders ensnares her in an investigation that will change everything she believes. Again.
She finds allies where she least expected: an L-positive smuggler who can answer her most burning questions. For a price.
Rainer, a dissident familiar with the black market, discovers one of Kaidlyn’s illicit secrets and plans to leverage his findings to gain her cooperation. If he can survive her temper long enough to convince her that not all mutts are evil, they might change the world.
The two unlikely compatriots unite in a gamble of redemption and hope. With any luck, they’ll make a difference before they find themselves in front of a firing squad.
382 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 22, 2014
About the author
Elizabeth Blake
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I'm currently working on two conjoined series:
The Exalted series features a young man, Simon, who faces a crisis of faith in a world of vampires, miraculous genetics, and the pending apocalypse.
This series preludes my Muttopia series, which features the post-apocalyptic gunslinger Kaidlyn Durant.
Favourite books:
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Anthem, 1984, Farewell Waltz, Meditations on Violence.
Biography
Elizabeth's a great writer, but she sucks at self promotion. Hi, I'm Solomon, her husband ^_^ I'll be introducing Elizabeth to you.
Elizabeth is a home-grown girl, born in Alaska, raised in Michigan by AMAZING, down-to-Earth parents, alongside two brothers. She's been writing since she could hold a pen, and has a brain full of incredible and unique ideas.
Somewhere along the line I convinced her to marry me, and now we live in Arizona with five cats and a cow of a dog, named Luna. She's her baby.
Oh yeah, Elizabeth's also done hard time in university and earned a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and World History. That's important. I think.
Stay tuned for musings on my creative process and updates on projects and new releases.
BRING ME COFFEE! =)
I'm currently working on two conjoined series:
The Exalted series features a young man, Simon, who faces a crisis of faith in a world of vampires, miraculous genetics, and the pending apocalypse.
This series preludes my Muttopia series, which features the post-apocalyptic gunslinger Kaidlyn Durant.
Favourite books:
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Anthem, 1984, Farewell Waltz, Meditations on Violence.
Biography
Elizabeth's a great writer, but she sucks at self promotion. Hi, I'm Solomon, her husband ^_^ I'll be introducing Elizabeth to you.
Elizabeth is a home-grown girl, born in Alaska, raised in Michigan by AMAZING, down-to-Earth parents, alongside two brothers. She's been writing since she could hold a pen, and has a brain full of incredible and unique ideas.
Somewhere along the line I convinced her to marry me, and now we live in Arizona with five cats and a cow of a dog, named Luna. She's her baby.
Oh yeah, Elizabeth's also done hard time in university and earned a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and World History. That's important. I think.
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February 20, 2016
(4.3) Amazzzinnggg ! It's like a better 5th Wave, better writing and better plot with some real actions ! You discover Kaidlyn, (who is also a bad-ass main character btw), a famous gunslinger working for the Federal Bureau of Human Safety to protect the citizens from a wild plague. She will have to investigate some gruesome murders while defending against the beast and has to search fon an unexpected ally. I don't want to reveal more about the book because I think it'll ruin the fun and the suspense ! You'll find actions, zombies killing style, vampires and werewolves, computer hacking genius, an alcoholic and junkie. Elizabeth Blake has created the perfect coolness in her characters and it made this read very pleasant. Big thank you to the author for giving me a free e-book copy in exhcange for an honest review.
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November 4, 2015
Synopsis:
A post-apolypse world where warewolves are real, there is an official governmet agency to hunt and kill them, and religious ferver has created an Orwelian police state.
Kaidlyn Durant is an agent with the Federal Bureau of Human Safety tasked with hunting and killing warewolves in the Phoenix, AZ area. And she’s got the scars that go with the job.
Rainer is a warewolf and a computer hacker that never leaves the fortified bunker beneath his porn shop.
While Kaidlyn and the FBHS crew go about killing warewolves with impunity, Rainer watches from behind the scenes. His anger with the relentless and coldbloodedness of the FBHS spurs him to harrass the agency’s ‘Princess’ so he goes after her money, then has mountains of porn shipped to her Post Office Box, then he gets someone to break into her home where they find a banned book, the Federalist Papers.
Kaidlyn comes home and instantly knows that someone was there. She inspects and finds they’ve discovered her contraband, but there are no government boots breaking her door down. As she spends her days gunning down some of the world’s monsters, and trying to discover who’s hunting warewolves for their skins, she also plays a bit of cat and mouse with her unknown pursuer.
The Good:
The characters the author creates are beliveable and also very cool. Kaidlyn is an alcoholic and a junkie who pisses everybody off at some point. However, she does have a softer side that we get to see just a bit of.
Rainer and his warewolf friends remind us that although warewolves are savage while ‘shedding’, they’re still humans who are infected with a disease.
The book is well paced with a good mix of action and narrative. It also switches first-person POV between Kaidlyn and Rainer and does a very good job of showing the reader the depth of both of these characters. Ultimately the meeting between Kaidlyn and Rainer happens and the outcome isn’t what you expected.
A post-apolypse world where warewolves are real, there is an official governmet agency to hunt and kill them, and religious ferver has created an Orwelian police state.
Kaidlyn Durant is an agent with the Federal Bureau of Human Safety tasked with hunting and killing warewolves in the Phoenix, AZ area. And she’s got the scars that go with the job.
Rainer is a warewolf and a computer hacker that never leaves the fortified bunker beneath his porn shop.
While Kaidlyn and the FBHS crew go about killing warewolves with impunity, Rainer watches from behind the scenes. His anger with the relentless and coldbloodedness of the FBHS spurs him to harrass the agency’s ‘Princess’ so he goes after her money, then has mountains of porn shipped to her Post Office Box, then he gets someone to break into her home where they find a banned book, the Federalist Papers.
Kaidlyn comes home and instantly knows that someone was there. She inspects and finds they’ve discovered her contraband, but there are no government boots breaking her door down. As she spends her days gunning down some of the world’s monsters, and trying to discover who’s hunting warewolves for their skins, she also plays a bit of cat and mouse with her unknown pursuer.
The Good:
The characters the author creates are beliveable and also very cool. Kaidlyn is an alcoholic and a junkie who pisses everybody off at some point. However, she does have a softer side that we get to see just a bit of.
Rainer and his warewolf friends remind us that although warewolves are savage while ‘shedding’, they’re still humans who are infected with a disease.
The book is well paced with a good mix of action and narrative. It also switches first-person POV between Kaidlyn and Rainer and does a very good job of showing the reader the depth of both of these characters. Ultimately the meeting between Kaidlyn and Rainer happens and the outcome isn’t what you expected.
November 3, 2015
If you are into fantasy, future, cop stories and the vampire/werewolf thing, you will enjoy this. If you are into stories with all of those elements plus strong themes and STRONG language told by a VERY strong female protagonist, you will LOVE this! This was fast-paced, full of action and fantasy at the same time with a protagonist dealing with the very human issue of alcoholism. A good read.
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