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The Wraith Chronicles #1
Darkness
The ancient vampire hunting order known as the Gwyliad Wriaeth has a dark secret. It's enwined so deeply in the order that very few know about it, but it threatens to unravel everything they stand for. We are those who are to blame. As each new student graduates from training they must take part in a ritual steeped in shadows and mysticism that has become the source of the Wraith's strength, speed, and longevity. Emily St. Louise--Saint to her her friends--is ready. As the ritual begins, something goes terribly, terribly wrong.Saint becomes something more than human, more than vampire, more than Wraith. Now Saint will shake the foundation of the Gwyliad Wraith on her search for truth. Buried somewhere in the academy's walls are answers... But to gain the truth, she must first loose everything. Science Fiction/Fantasy author Terence West brings you the first thrilling novel from The Wraith Chronicles.
- GenresFantasy
169 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 13, 2006
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About the author
Terence West
24 books3 followersThe author of numerous novels including the best sellers Fallen Angels, Darkness, and Crusade, I’m a Gen X refugee that fears the day my generation will rule the world. In anticipation of the apocalypse, I’m currently stockpiling goods and supplies in Twin Falls, Idaho with my wife and mad scientist son, Jack.
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March 11, 2025
Hardly memorable except I read a better one of the series
November 4, 2016
Full of flowery language about vampires, fighting, and teenage angst…it’s like an Anita Blake novel was partially burned then published after being added to by a teenager that just saw Interview with a Vampire. The main character is a bit less of a Mary Sue though as the youngest, best/newest mutation, best fighter, wanted by any available male…
This contains spoilers because there is no other good way to show how silly it is.
It starts like many a novel of an adolescent coming into their own...as a Wraith...along with her class introducing the other characters and setting the scenes. Full of telling the reader all about how she is the best ad nauseam till one wonders if the author was paid by the word. Then it quickly gets to the mystery of what the blurb says they tell the “dark secret” well before the middle of the book (for those who couldn’t at least half guess it by then). After they spill the beans about the dark secret no one knows right away...they take their new best hope they promptly shuttle her down for medical experiments. Instead of actually being human about the tests they just strap her down and drug her till the main antagonist finally shows up.
The antagonist shows up a bit earlier killing his way across the smartest, strongest, and oldest vampires every because…well he’s a mind controlling invisible-at-will super vampire that no one can seem to touch except for Mary Sue (of course). He even gets his own flowery language and detailed descriptions of his badassery. The character is written with a rare moment of sanity in groups of books obsessed with hacking at each other with swords when someone figures out what explosives are.
To the horror of everyone because single combat with swords is the only cool way to fight.
Then comes a point where the author kind of stops being able to move the plot along without just making things up. As example a main character starting a fight with suicidal odds that he cannot escape from (stupidity is not heroic), unseen forces directing their movements, and characters just sensing the next steps instead of writing the story. It becomes one big combat as the vampires come to get rid of the Wraith. Since why not keep the entire leadership in a sleepy town in England with seemingly a dozen guards?
Just to make it even better the day is saved not by Mary Sue fighting the super-vampire to a standstill…but by 2 werewolf “killing machines” from America that show up with automatic weapons out of the blue. Who decide to just let the antagonist go to come back another day like an 80’s cartoon after he murdered nearly the entire Wraith school.
I guess it makes sure people will buy the next book.
This contains spoilers because there is no other good way to show how silly it is.
It starts like many a novel of an adolescent coming into their own...as a Wraith...along with her class introducing the other characters and setting the scenes. Full of telling the reader all about how she is the best ad nauseam till one wonders if the author was paid by the word. Then it quickly gets to the mystery of what the blurb says they tell the “dark secret” well before the middle of the book (for those who couldn’t at least half guess it by then). After they spill the beans about the dark secret no one knows right away...they take their new best hope they promptly shuttle her down for medical experiments. Instead of actually being human about the tests they just strap her down and drug her till the main antagonist finally shows up.
The antagonist shows up a bit earlier killing his way across the smartest, strongest, and oldest vampires every because…well he’s a mind controlling invisible-at-will super vampire that no one can seem to touch except for Mary Sue (of course). He even gets his own flowery language and detailed descriptions of his badassery. The character is written with a rare moment of sanity in groups of books obsessed with hacking at each other with swords when someone figures out what explosives are.
To the horror of everyone because single combat with swords is the only cool way to fight.
Then comes a point where the author kind of stops being able to move the plot along without just making things up. As example a main character starting a fight with suicidal odds that he cannot escape from (stupidity is not heroic), unseen forces directing their movements, and characters just sensing the next steps instead of writing the story. It becomes one big combat as the vampires come to get rid of the Wraith. Since why not keep the entire leadership in a sleepy town in England with seemingly a dozen guards?
Just to make it even better the day is saved not by Mary Sue fighting the super-vampire to a standstill…but by 2 werewolf “killing machines” from America that show up with automatic weapons out of the blue. Who decide to just let the antagonist go to come back another day like an 80’s cartoon after he murdered nearly the entire Wraith school.
I guess it makes sure people will buy the next book.
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