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Triumvirate #4
Araknid
ARAKNID
The 3rd full-length novel in the Triumvirate series.
The hunger grows ...
Since returning from the Alaskan wilderness, zombie Trey Matthews has felt different. He hasn’t told his partners, the vampire Alistaire and the werewolf Sean, but a hunger is building inside him — a deep, cruel craving that he fears he won’t be able to control much longer.
The hunger grows.
A new monster is preying upon Los Angeles. Unprecedented and grotesque, an enemy born of voodoo — the dark magic that brought Trey back from the dead.
The hunger grows!
Now, surrounded by unfamiliar mayhem and too familiar sorcery, Trey Matthews will be tested like never before, as he is pushed from within ... pushed to feed!
The 3rd full-length novel in the Triumvirate series.
The hunger grows ...
Since returning from the Alaskan wilderness, zombie Trey Matthews has felt different. He hasn’t told his partners, the vampire Alistaire and the werewolf Sean, but a hunger is building inside him — a deep, cruel craving that he fears he won’t be able to control much longer.
The hunger grows.
A new monster is preying upon Los Angeles. Unprecedented and grotesque, an enemy born of voodoo — the dark magic that brought Trey back from the dead.
The hunger grows!
Now, surrounded by unfamiliar mayhem and too familiar sorcery, Trey Matthews will be tested like never before, as he is pushed from within ... pushed to feed!
358 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 24, 2017
About the author
Christopher Andrews
16 books17 followersChristopher Andrews lives in California with his wife, Yvonne Isaak-Andrews, and their wonderful daughter, Arianna. In addition to his duties as stay-at-home Dad, he is always working on his next novels, and continues to work as an actor and screenwriter.
Excerpts from all of Christopher’s novels can be found at www.ChristopherAndrews.com.
Excerpts from all of Christopher’s novels can be found at www.ChristopherAndrews.com.
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May 1, 2018
Christopher Andrews’ “Araknid” will not disappoint fans of his Triumvirate supernatural adventure series. While the first books focused more on the vampire and werewolf members of the team, this one dives deep into the mind of the resident zombie, Trey Matthews.
As a zombie, Trey is... well, zombie-like. He thinks slowly. He moves slowly. He likes to, you know, devour the flesh of the living. But the three members of the Triumvirate use their paranormal strengths to protect mankind against monsters like themselves. So the vampire only drinks blood from the blood bank, the werewolf locks himself up during the full moon, and the zombie satisfies his hunger with fistfuls of raw ground beef. And that worked out fine for Trey. Until that incident in book two (“Of Wolf and Man”) when he took a big ‘ol bite out of a werewolf and experienced what it was like to eat flesh straight off the (still living) bone. Suddenly dead cow wouldn’t cut it anymore. And things got... complicated.
As always, Andrews shows his strength for character building, giving what could have been a one-dimensional zombie stereotype a fully rounded struggle based on his personality and his wants and needs. The hunger within Trey grows so strong it literally becomes a voice in his head, mocking him and constantly pushing him to give in to his monster instincts. As they say on the internet, “The struggle is real.” Like, “Holy crap, that took a dark turn” real.
And that’s another thing I found exciting about this book: Nobody is safe. If you think a character is too important or too likable to die, prepare to get yourself George R. R. Martined. Because Trey isn’t the only monster lurking between these covers.
Trigger warning: If you can’t stand spiders, then PUT THIS BOOK THE HELL DOWN AND STEP AWAY SLOWLY.
While Trey is having his zombie identity crisis, there’s a new Voodoo Bad Dude in town putting every spider in Los Angeles into a tizzy. It’s like if you took “Arachnophobia,” multiplied it by a hundred, and then multiplied it by a thousand. The vivid descriptions of spider infestations swarming through homes and menacing hapless Angelinos made my skin crawl. In a good way! This book does such a good job evoking the creepy-crawlie feelings that I’d catch myself unconsciously hunching my shoulders and brushing off any exposed skin.
If you enjoyed the first two Triumvirate books, you’re in for a treat with the paranormal action and spider-infested horror of “Araknid.”
As a zombie, Trey is... well, zombie-like. He thinks slowly. He moves slowly. He likes to, you know, devour the flesh of the living. But the three members of the Triumvirate use their paranormal strengths to protect mankind against monsters like themselves. So the vampire only drinks blood from the blood bank, the werewolf locks himself up during the full moon, and the zombie satisfies his hunger with fistfuls of raw ground beef. And that worked out fine for Trey. Until that incident in book two (“Of Wolf and Man”) when he took a big ‘ol bite out of a werewolf and experienced what it was like to eat flesh straight off the (still living) bone. Suddenly dead cow wouldn’t cut it anymore. And things got... complicated.
As always, Andrews shows his strength for character building, giving what could have been a one-dimensional zombie stereotype a fully rounded struggle based on his personality and his wants and needs. The hunger within Trey grows so strong it literally becomes a voice in his head, mocking him and constantly pushing him to give in to his monster instincts. As they say on the internet, “The struggle is real.” Like, “Holy crap, that took a dark turn” real.
And that’s another thing I found exciting about this book: Nobody is safe. If you think a character is too important or too likable to die, prepare to get yourself George R. R. Martined. Because Trey isn’t the only monster lurking between these covers.
Trigger warning: If you can’t stand spiders, then PUT THIS BOOK THE HELL DOWN AND STEP AWAY SLOWLY.
While Trey is having his zombie identity crisis, there’s a new Voodoo Bad Dude in town putting every spider in Los Angeles into a tizzy. It’s like if you took “Arachnophobia,” multiplied it by a hundred, and then multiplied it by a thousand. The vivid descriptions of spider infestations swarming through homes and menacing hapless Angelinos made my skin crawl. In a good way! This book does such a good job evoking the creepy-crawlie feelings that I’d catch myself unconsciously hunching my shoulders and brushing off any exposed skin.
If you enjoyed the first two Triumvirate books, you’re in for a treat with the paranormal action and spider-infested horror of “Araknid.”
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