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Hunters
Taagras, a place in which Vampires and Humans live in a quiet yet visible war, one Hunter has broken his vows to his sacred order in the pursuit of love.
Barros Toldar has only made one mistake in his life and that was marrying the vampire countess, Sophia. He thought he could tame her but the birth of their son, Abner, five years later sets off a string of catastrophic events. Now, he is not only fighting for his own life but also battling for the humanity of Taagras. But things just got more complicated. With Sophia producing an ancient item of great power, Barros realizes he needs to become more than the Hunter he used to be.
Hunters is a tale full of action, love, betrayal and a man fighting himself to overcome what demons are within him.
Barros Toldar has only made one mistake in his life and that was marrying the vampire countess, Sophia. He thought he could tame her but the birth of their son, Abner, five years later sets off a string of catastrophic events. Now, he is not only fighting for his own life but also battling for the humanity of Taagras. But things just got more complicated. With Sophia producing an ancient item of great power, Barros realizes he needs to become more than the Hunter he used to be.
Hunters is a tale full of action, love, betrayal and a man fighting himself to overcome what demons are within him.
215 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 10, 2015
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March 8, 2015
I was lucky enough to receive an ARC of this title, and off of its strengths, went ahead and bought it anyway. Already, at a very young age, this author demonstrates he’s a force to be reckoned with. I’ve read pieces of several of his other works premiering in serialized form on wattpad, and they too show tremendous promise.
The author pens Hunters with the same intensity and cinematic action style that governs his other works. He also demonstrates a real feel for this genre, or perhaps it’s more rightly referred to as a sub-genre piece since it involves the intersection of vampires and magic. As another reviewer has noted, these are not your Twilight-style, sparkly, cute, sexy vampires. These are hell spawn. Which is not to say they don’t have a beguiling face prior to turning. Or aren’t able to hypnotically lure their victims.
I found the world-building quite good, and the fight scenes well-rendered.
As to minuses, ironically, for a genre that requires a lot of action, I thought there might have been too much of it. I would have preferred more time and energy devoted to the B-story, to developing the romance elements and to fleshing out the characters more. Also, some of the magic surrounding the amulets, and what exactly is going on with them and with the complicated history between vampires, hunters, and mortals, left me scratching my head. Perhaps some of the more confusing plot points will get sorted in the sequel. Some story threads that were initially quite promising were just left dangling. Again, the writer might be holding off on advancing these subplots for the next installment.
I was on the fence between a 3 and a 4 star rating because the biggest challenge I had with the story was the number of logic gaps in evidence from very early on. I’m still not clear for instance on how a female vampire can drain five humans back to back of all their blood. Where does all the blood go? Perhaps there is some magical explanation that might suffice to get me to suspend my disbelief, but several happenings like that throughout repeatedly threw me out of the story. Because this is not a ten star system however that would let me score 3.5 stars, I rounded up to four based on the fact that even with the logic gaps, I thought this book had far more to recommend it than took away from it. Factor in that this is a young writer’s first novel, and the achievement is all the more remarkable.
The author pens Hunters with the same intensity and cinematic action style that governs his other works. He also demonstrates a real feel for this genre, or perhaps it’s more rightly referred to as a sub-genre piece since it involves the intersection of vampires and magic. As another reviewer has noted, these are not your Twilight-style, sparkly, cute, sexy vampires. These are hell spawn. Which is not to say they don’t have a beguiling face prior to turning. Or aren’t able to hypnotically lure their victims.
I found the world-building quite good, and the fight scenes well-rendered.
As to minuses, ironically, for a genre that requires a lot of action, I thought there might have been too much of it. I would have preferred more time and energy devoted to the B-story, to developing the romance elements and to fleshing out the characters more. Also, some of the magic surrounding the amulets, and what exactly is going on with them and with the complicated history between vampires, hunters, and mortals, left me scratching my head. Perhaps some of the more confusing plot points will get sorted in the sequel. Some story threads that were initially quite promising were just left dangling. Again, the writer might be holding off on advancing these subplots for the next installment.
I was on the fence between a 3 and a 4 star rating because the biggest challenge I had with the story was the number of logic gaps in evidence from very early on. I’m still not clear for instance on how a female vampire can drain five humans back to back of all their blood. Where does all the blood go? Perhaps there is some magical explanation that might suffice to get me to suspend my disbelief, but several happenings like that throughout repeatedly threw me out of the story. Because this is not a ten star system however that would let me score 3.5 stars, I rounded up to four based on the fact that even with the logic gaps, I thought this book had far more to recommend it than took away from it. Factor in that this is a young writer’s first novel, and the achievement is all the more remarkable.
August 8, 2015
Wow this was a different sort of book. Very detailed in the story. It is about a world where vampires are the bad guys and very difficult to kill. It starts out with the reader learning about a Hunter (of vampires) who has married a vampire and lived with her for 5 years culminating in the birth of their child which turns Sophia, the mother, back to her natural vampire self. She puts some kind of restraining spell on her husband, the hunter as she goes off to kill and gorge herself. In the meantime, Barros, her husband manages to shake the spell and tries to kill her when she returns, but can't quite do it. The story progresses to tell of the struggle between the Hunters and the vampires with Sophia as their leader. Barros emerges as a major player in the war and the story has so many unexpected twists and turns that the reader is kept continuously surprised at the turn of events. There seems to be a bit of antagonism towards females in general but it may be just the tones of the times and world in which the story takes place. It ends in a bit of a cliffhanger but not in an obnoxious way. It is not your usual vampire story!
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