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Silver Bullet
In the quaint town of Huntly, a moonlit ritual is observed by a Professor of Anthropology from a prestigious London university. Protected by the cover of darkness, he believes he is safe from prying eyes.
But those involved in the spectacle are not ordinary creatures, and their senses are more acute than he has given them credit for.
Unsatisfied with the response from the local police force, Jenna Wilkinson arrives in Huntly to search for her missing uncle. There, she meets the Detective Constable in charge of the case, Alan Young, and together they set about trying to uncover the professor's disappearance.
One by one, more victims follow, and they'll have to put aside their beliefs and superstitions to save the town. But can they escape a fate worse than death?
But those involved in the spectacle are not ordinary creatures, and their senses are more acute than he has given them credit for.
Unsatisfied with the response from the local police force, Jenna Wilkinson arrives in Huntly to search for her missing uncle. There, she meets the Detective Constable in charge of the case, Alan Young, and together they set about trying to uncover the professor's disappearance.
One by one, more victims follow, and they'll have to put aside their beliefs and superstitions to save the town. But can they escape a fate worse than death?
- GenresHorror
476 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 18, 2020
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March 16, 2024
Definitely, A Fast Read!
This story centers on a young lady and a young detective, who are searching for her missing uncle. When they visit the town in which her uncle is investigating, they run into the leader and her pack.
Unlike other werewolves, the ones by L’estrange needs more than a silver bullet to die. The silver must first be blessed. And you must kill the leader of the pack, which will automatically kill the others.
In L’estrange’s werewolf mythos, werewolves have self-awareness. Those that turn into werewolves are not only aware that they are turning, but continue to be aware of themselves in their new state of existence.
Like other descriptions of the mythos, the werewolves are highly sexual, and engage in a lot of sex...and orgies.
Although the book is not more defined with the status quo of the mythos, l still found the book very interesting and enjoyable. Part of the reason is its originality.
It is a quick and wonderful read and worth every star that I’m giving it.
Five stars. ✨✨✨✨✨
This story centers on a young lady and a young detective, who are searching for her missing uncle. When they visit the town in which her uncle is investigating, they run into the leader and her pack.
Unlike other werewolves, the ones by L’estrange needs more than a silver bullet to die. The silver must first be blessed. And you must kill the leader of the pack, which will automatically kill the others.
In L’estrange’s werewolf mythos, werewolves have self-awareness. Those that turn into werewolves are not only aware that they are turning, but continue to be aware of themselves in their new state of existence.
Like other descriptions of the mythos, the werewolves are highly sexual, and engage in a lot of sex...and orgies.
Although the book is not more defined with the status quo of the mythos, l still found the book very interesting and enjoyable. Part of the reason is its originality.
It is a quick and wonderful read and worth every star that I’m giving it.
Five stars. ✨✨✨✨✨
February 25, 2021
Here are my comments on the novel as I read it, modified slightly from https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I found an interview of this month's author. He comes across to me as really down to earth. I'd stake him a pint if I met him. I also like what he'd have written on his tombstone: https://authorsinterviews.wordpress.c...
There is a huge difference in price if you Kindle this book ($2.99) or buy the hardback ($21.90 plus tax and shipping). It's no contest this time. I wonder why the big difference. Anyhow, I'm going to read the first chapter as a bedtime story now.
The prologue chapter draws one in nicely. It really establishes a sense of danger and that at least some of the town's people know about the problem.
I do wonder about one main thing though. If people in the town know about a problem of this gravity, are they doing anything yet? That was a big question in Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf and most werewolf stories now that I think of it. What does the town know? When will they do something about it?
I am almost halfway through now and am thoroughly enjoying it. A literary masterpiece it's not, but then it doesn't pretend to be. I am engaged in the three stories being told. 1) The young woman in search of her missing uncle. Definitely the most compelling of the stories so far. 2) The seduced mama's boy who seems to be getting turned. And 3) I don't know what to make of these two young women with their very close relationship to one another yet.
L'estrange knows how to really keep the suspense going and how to bring a novel to a satisfying conclusion. He invented some of the rules, but with werewolf lore there is some fluctuation. So I don't mind that he seemed to make some of the rules up on the fly. He was self-consistent, which is all I think one can ask.
The one thing I think was overdone a bit was all the sex, as much of it consensual as non-consensual meaning violent. I'm not a prude or anything, but I am cognizant that his work will attract an under-17 crowd because of its subject matter. R. L. Stine to L'estrange is not a bridge I'd recommend for anyone, yet I am concerned this will happen. Also, I hope for L'estrange's sake his mother has passed. Otherwise the conversation at his Christmas dinner table could get really awkward. "Uh, no, Mom. It's purely fictional. Nothing autobiographical or wish fulfillment in the content whatsoever."
Questions I'd have for L'estrange based on my reading of Silver Bullet:
1) Is Huntley a real place or based on a real place? Is it near where you live?
2) What happened with your two characters Becky Graham and Stella Braithwaite? You got me interested in their story right when they dropped precipitously out of the novel. Did you have other intentions for them when you created them and just decide not to continue?
3) I'm not sure I like the addition of the silver bullet used to kill werewolves having to be blessed. Isn't just getting a silver bullet hard (and expensive) enough already? Where did this addition come from? Your imagination? Or was it based on a film that incorporated it that you saw?
4) An addition of yours to werewolf lore I really like, by the way, is the incorporation of the rule that whatever werewolf is killed automatically kills the wolves he/she turned as well. That's an additional rule I think any author should like to keep in their work. You can have more people turn that way and not have to worry about getting each and every wolf dead (or accounted for) by book's end. Is the idea for this rule original with you?
5) Your being a self-confessed Luddite really comes through in your writing. Your characters use cell phones, but few Google much, use GPS very effectively, or have anything to do with social media--all of which is perfectly cool with me. Another way you write in very old school fashion is you don't re-use your characters. Don't you know that every author never writes in anything shorter than a trilogy these days? I bet your publishers are hounding you to consider writing in series. Seriously, the main advantage for you and your readership is that you don't have to do all that background work of establishing characters and setting any more. You can get straight on to your stories. I would love to see a sequel to Silver Bullet some day to read about the further adventures of Jenna and Alan Young. Is Trish truly gone, never to be saved? Have they heard the last of Roger the tool? He was a wonderful sub-plot villain by the way. Who was really behind these wolves? Katerina seemed too mercurial to have true leadership. Audrey on the other hand.... Anyhow, you have room for a sequel here.
6) Why is every other minor character named "Pete?" I counted no less than three different Petes in this novel.
I look forward to reading my next L'estrange book.
I found an interview of this month's author. He comes across to me as really down to earth. I'd stake him a pint if I met him. I also like what he'd have written on his tombstone: https://authorsinterviews.wordpress.c...
There is a huge difference in price if you Kindle this book ($2.99) or buy the hardback ($21.90 plus tax and shipping). It's no contest this time. I wonder why the big difference. Anyhow, I'm going to read the first chapter as a bedtime story now.
The prologue chapter draws one in nicely. It really establishes a sense of danger and that at least some of the town's people know about the problem.
I do wonder about one main thing though. If people in the town know about a problem of this gravity, are they doing anything yet? That was a big question in Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf and most werewolf stories now that I think of it. What does the town know? When will they do something about it?
I am almost halfway through now and am thoroughly enjoying it. A literary masterpiece it's not, but then it doesn't pretend to be. I am engaged in the three stories being told. 1) The young woman in search of her missing uncle. Definitely the most compelling of the stories so far. 2) The seduced mama's boy who seems to be getting turned. And 3) I don't know what to make of these two young women with their very close relationship to one another yet.
L'estrange knows how to really keep the suspense going and how to bring a novel to a satisfying conclusion. He invented some of the rules, but with werewolf lore there is some fluctuation. So I don't mind that he seemed to make some of the rules up on the fly. He was self-consistent, which is all I think one can ask.
The one thing I think was overdone a bit was all the sex, as much of it consensual as non-consensual meaning violent. I'm not a prude or anything, but I am cognizant that his work will attract an under-17 crowd because of its subject matter. R. L. Stine to L'estrange is not a bridge I'd recommend for anyone, yet I am concerned this will happen. Also, I hope for L'estrange's sake his mother has passed. Otherwise the conversation at his Christmas dinner table could get really awkward. "Uh, no, Mom. It's purely fictional. Nothing autobiographical or wish fulfillment in the content whatsoever."
Questions I'd have for L'estrange based on my reading of Silver Bullet:
1) Is Huntley a real place or based on a real place? Is it near where you live?
2) What happened with your two characters Becky Graham and Stella Braithwaite? You got me interested in their story right when they dropped precipitously out of the novel. Did you have other intentions for them when you created them and just decide not to continue?
3) I'm not sure I like the addition of the silver bullet used to kill werewolves having to be blessed. Isn't just getting a silver bullet hard (and expensive) enough already? Where did this addition come from? Your imagination? Or was it based on a film that incorporated it that you saw?
4) An addition of yours to werewolf lore I really like, by the way, is the incorporation of the rule that whatever werewolf is killed automatically kills the wolves he/she turned as well. That's an additional rule I think any author should like to keep in their work. You can have more people turn that way and not have to worry about getting each and every wolf dead (or accounted for) by book's end. Is the idea for this rule original with you?
5) Your being a self-confessed Luddite really comes through in your writing. Your characters use cell phones, but few Google much, use GPS very effectively, or have anything to do with social media--all of which is perfectly cool with me. Another way you write in very old school fashion is you don't re-use your characters. Don't you know that every author never writes in anything shorter than a trilogy these days? I bet your publishers are hounding you to consider writing in series. Seriously, the main advantage for you and your readership is that you don't have to do all that background work of establishing characters and setting any more. You can get straight on to your stories. I would love to see a sequel to Silver Bullet some day to read about the further adventures of Jenna and Alan Young. Is Trish truly gone, never to be saved? Have they heard the last of Roger the tool? He was a wonderful sub-plot villain by the way. Who was really behind these wolves? Katerina seemed too mercurial to have true leadership. Audrey on the other hand.... Anyhow, you have room for a sequel here.
6) Why is every other minor character named "Pete?" I counted no less than three different Petes in this novel.
I look forward to reading my next L'estrange book.
June 19, 2020
A Werewolf story with real teeth!
Sorry for the pun, but this had an honest, followable storyline. The antagonists were complicated and evil. The protagonists were steady, multilevel, and good. The tale built well from the Uncle's investigations to the niece's loyalty, searching for answers to his sudden disappearance. I would definitely read more!
Sorry for the pun, but this had an honest, followable storyline. The antagonists were complicated and evil. The protagonists were steady, multilevel, and good. The tale built well from the Uncle's investigations to the niece's loyalty, searching for answers to his sudden disappearance. I would definitely read more!
February 22, 2021
very good British novel, interesting to see the difference in terminology. interesting different take on the werewolf story line , keeps moving right along maybe should be on adults only shelf however gets racy at times. ending is a surprise. some details a little sketchy but didn't hurt flow.
May 8, 2021
Brilliant Different and Entertaining Read!
Well thought out story line which had a romantic twist to it. Folklore meets present day, with believable characters and Entertaining STORYLINE👍
Will definitely read more books by this Author !!!
Well thought out story line which had a romantic twist to it. Folklore meets present day, with believable characters and Entertaining STORYLINE👍
Will definitely read more books by this Author !!!
August 2, 2021
ALL IT CLAIMS TO BE.
A great little read from start to finish. For 99p you can't go wrong with this one, especially if you love a good werewolf story and this one is just that. Enjoy.
A great little read from start to finish. For 99p you can't go wrong with this one, especially if you love a good werewolf story and this one is just that. Enjoy.
May 9, 2020
Ok read
Loved the love story... Not enough werewolf for me... A few surprises in the end of you want a steady paced book to read this is it
Loved the love story... Not enough werewolf for me... A few surprises in the end of you want a steady paced book to read this is it
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