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Santa Saves Christmas #2
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like RAPTORS
A time-traveling raptor...
Prehistoric portals...
It's a Dinopocalyptic Disaster!
Santa Claus just saved Christmas, so why are there dozens of prehistoric nightmares ravaging the streets of Moscow on Christmas Day? With his reindeer team restored and Snoot at his side once again, Santa springs into action, only to find a nefarious force eager to destroy not only Christmas but also the entire human race.
As the Lord of Time and Space, the Time Raptor has inherited cosmic powers far beyond his control. Recognizing the evils mankind has perpetrated upon the Earth, the Time Raptor knows he must act to save the planet from its modern-day humanity.
With the true power of the cosmos calling to him, the Time Raptor summons an army of dinosaurs and initiates a scheme to slaughter every soul on Earth so his scaly siblings can escape their prehistoric fate and reestablish their rule over the planet.
Can Santa, Snoot, and their friends stop the Time Raptor's dastardly plan? Or will the coming Dinopocalypse change the face of human history forever?
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like RAPTORS is the second book in the hilarious Santa Saves Christmas series, a mashup of urban fantasy and time travel genres. Readers of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series and Shayne Silvers’s Nate Temple series will love these books.
Curl up by the fire with a mug of heavily spiked hot chocolate and start reading now!
Prehistoric portals...
It's a Dinopocalyptic Disaster!
Santa Claus just saved Christmas, so why are there dozens of prehistoric nightmares ravaging the streets of Moscow on Christmas Day? With his reindeer team restored and Snoot at his side once again, Santa springs into action, only to find a nefarious force eager to destroy not only Christmas but also the entire human race.
As the Lord of Time and Space, the Time Raptor has inherited cosmic powers far beyond his control. Recognizing the evils mankind has perpetrated upon the Earth, the Time Raptor knows he must act to save the planet from its modern-day humanity.
With the true power of the cosmos calling to him, the Time Raptor summons an army of dinosaurs and initiates a scheme to slaughter every soul on Earth so his scaly siblings can escape their prehistoric fate and reestablish their rule over the planet.
Can Santa, Snoot, and their friends stop the Time Raptor's dastardly plan? Or will the coming Dinopocalypse change the face of human history forever?
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like RAPTORS is the second book in the hilarious Santa Saves Christmas series, a mashup of urban fantasy and time travel genres. Readers of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series and Shayne Silvers’s Nate Temple series will love these books.
Curl up by the fire with a mug of heavily spiked hot chocolate and start reading now!
278 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 15, 2021
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About the author
Ben Wolf
99 books120 followersAt the age of nine, Ben Wolf slayed his first dragon.
As the dragon perished, it bequeathed a measure of its power to Ben.
It told him, "You now have the ability to lie more creatively than any other being on this planet--except for politicians. Use this power wisely."
The dragon died with one final puff of smoke from its lungs, but Ben Wolf lived on.
For years, Ben honed his craft. At the age of twelve, he lied to his sister about having thrown darts at a poster of her favorite boy band.
At the age of sixteen, he lied to a policeman who'd pulled him over for speeding, and it got him out of a ticket.
At the age of eighteen, he lied to himself about what a good decision it was to go to Bible college and major in Pastoral Studies (that one has come back to haunt him several times).
Given the unique power he'd inherited from the dying dragon, Ben Wolf had expected his life to look very different from how it did when he turned twenty-three.
Then the dragon's words regarding his power returned to him: "Use this power wisely."
The truth was, Ben hadn't been using the magnificent power wisely. He'd been using it for personal gain, and to dig himself out of bad situations (or, in the case of Bible college, to get himself into them).
So he asked himself, "What would be a wise way to use this power?"
At that very moment, a bus drove past the street in front of him. On its side was emblazoned the phrase, "You should write a novel!"
Having graduated from Bible college a year earlier, Ben took it as a divine message. What's more, he'd already written one novel at that point, and he'd enjoyed it, so he figured he might as well write a few more.
That was 2009. Now, more than ten years later, Ben has written north of ten books, including an award-winning children's book and an award-winning novel.
Awards are great, but what Ben has found even more reassuring is the consistently great feedback he's gotten from readers. They've raved about his work and told him he was the best, most creative liar they'd ever heard of.
So now Ben is on the cusp of making serious headway with his lying skills. His debut fantasy saga, the Blood Mercenaries series of dark/epic/sword & sorcery novels, is raking in tons of stellar reviews from readers everywhere.
And now you can be a part of his creative lying journey. If you've read Ben Wolf's work, love him as a person, or plain old just think he's a handsome guy (he is, and he is now making it known that it wasn't him who wrote this (but it was actually him)), then please review his books here and on Amazon.com.
Ben, who we swear didn't write this, thanks you.
As the dragon perished, it bequeathed a measure of its power to Ben.
It told him, "You now have the ability to lie more creatively than any other being on this planet--except for politicians. Use this power wisely."
The dragon died with one final puff of smoke from its lungs, but Ben Wolf lived on.
For years, Ben honed his craft. At the age of twelve, he lied to his sister about having thrown darts at a poster of her favorite boy band.
At the age of sixteen, he lied to a policeman who'd pulled him over for speeding, and it got him out of a ticket.
At the age of eighteen, he lied to himself about what a good decision it was to go to Bible college and major in Pastoral Studies (that one has come back to haunt him several times).
Given the unique power he'd inherited from the dying dragon, Ben Wolf had expected his life to look very different from how it did when he turned twenty-three.
Then the dragon's words regarding his power returned to him: "Use this power wisely."
The truth was, Ben hadn't been using the magnificent power wisely. He'd been using it for personal gain, and to dig himself out of bad situations (or, in the case of Bible college, to get himself into them).
So he asked himself, "What would be a wise way to use this power?"
At that very moment, a bus drove past the street in front of him. On its side was emblazoned the phrase, "You should write a novel!"
Having graduated from Bible college a year earlier, Ben took it as a divine message. What's more, he'd already written one novel at that point, and he'd enjoyed it, so he figured he might as well write a few more.
That was 2009. Now, more than ten years later, Ben has written north of ten books, including an award-winning children's book and an award-winning novel.
Awards are great, but what Ben has found even more reassuring is the consistently great feedback he's gotten from readers. They've raved about his work and told him he was the best, most creative liar they'd ever heard of.
So now Ben is on the cusp of making serious headway with his lying skills. His debut fantasy saga, the Blood Mercenaries series of dark/epic/sword & sorcery novels, is raking in tons of stellar reviews from readers everywhere.
And now you can be a part of his creative lying journey. If you've read Ben Wolf's work, love him as a person, or plain old just think he's a handsome guy (he is, and he is now making it known that it wasn't him who wrote this (but it was actually him)), then please review his books here and on Amazon.com.
Ben, who we swear didn't write this, thanks you.
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December 16, 2024
Book 2 of Ben Wolf's 'Santa Saves Christmas' trilogy starts off almost immediately after the events What The Frost? It's Christmas Day. Dinosaurs are running amok in Moscow and Santa Claus might have something to do with that. As he arrives in Russia with his trusty triple barreled shotgun, a whip made of a strand of holiday lights and his genius tech-savvy elf Snoot, Santa comes face-to-face with a new terror: a talking Utahraptor with the ability to bend time called the Time Raptor.
Feeling strongly that dinosaurs deserve another chance as the dominant species on Earth, the Time Raptor has opened a series of quantum portals back to prehistoric times, herding dinosaurs of all shapes, sizes and levels of death and destruction to make sure that this is mankind's last Christmas ever!
All of the main characters from the last book are back. Mrs. Claus and several of the elves have bigger roles this time around. And it doesn't read like book 2 is a rehash of the first volume. But it sure started that way.
While dinosaurs are not the main antagonists of the first book, they do play a big roll in the third act. Having Santa Claus and his allies battle the thunder lizards again felt stale. I would have liked the opening 30-40 pages of this book a whole lot better if we hadn't already had dinosaurs already. The Time Raptor was an interesting twist. However, there's a scene where the new villain goes to Jamaica in order to feed and what the Time Raptor does or more specifically doesn't do, pretty much told how the book was going to end.
What really saves this book is the banter. Snoot is hilarious. Santa's unlikely ally in the battle against the dinosaurs is a great character as well. But I don't want to spoil who that character is. New developments in Santa's time piece which allows him to slow down time in order to make all his deliveries in a single night where pretty cool and we've yet to see everything that specialized stopwatch can do.
I liked what I read enough, despite the slight repetitive nature of the presence of ancient reptiles (or birds, depending your school of thought), to order the third and final book before I finished this one. I had about 120 pages to go and I didn't want to waste a day or two waiting to know what happens next. Though at the time of this review, I've not read as much of that last book as I'd like as holiday happenings and a couple of unexpected events have eaten into my reading time the past couple of days. But at least I've not been left in the cold unable to see what comes afterwards. I'm just going at a much slower pace than I want right now.
Another fun book filled with holiday laughs and Jurassic Park level gore.
Feeling strongly that dinosaurs deserve another chance as the dominant species on Earth, the Time Raptor has opened a series of quantum portals back to prehistoric times, herding dinosaurs of all shapes, sizes and levels of death and destruction to make sure that this is mankind's last Christmas ever!
All of the main characters from the last book are back. Mrs. Claus and several of the elves have bigger roles this time around. And it doesn't read like book 2 is a rehash of the first volume. But it sure started that way.
While dinosaurs are not the main antagonists of the first book, they do play a big roll in the third act. Having Santa Claus and his allies battle the thunder lizards again felt stale. I would have liked the opening 30-40 pages of this book a whole lot better if we hadn't already had dinosaurs already. The Time Raptor was an interesting twist. However, there's a scene where the new villain goes to Jamaica in order to feed and what the Time Raptor does or more specifically doesn't do, pretty much told how the book was going to end.
What really saves this book is the banter. Snoot is hilarious. Santa's unlikely ally in the battle against the dinosaurs is a great character as well. But I don't want to spoil who that character is. New developments in Santa's time piece which allows him to slow down time in order to make all his deliveries in a single night where pretty cool and we've yet to see everything that specialized stopwatch can do.
I liked what I read enough, despite the slight repetitive nature of the presence of ancient reptiles (or birds, depending your school of thought), to order the third and final book before I finished this one. I had about 120 pages to go and I didn't want to waste a day or two waiting to know what happens next. Though at the time of this review, I've not read as much of that last book as I'd like as holiday happenings and a couple of unexpected events have eaten into my reading time the past couple of days. But at least I've not been left in the cold unable to see what comes afterwards. I'm just going at a much slower pace than I want right now.
Another fun book filled with holiday laughs and Jurassic Park level gore.
December 23, 2021
A T-Rex has taken over from Father Time as the Time Raptor and is leading his army of dinosaurs into Moscow as a prelude to wiping our mankind and taking over the world. Think Home Alone meets Jurassic Park with lots of gore.
This book is as crazy as the description sounds but does have its moments.
Shelly shouldn’t get so upset when Santa doesn’t tell her every detail of what happen. It may not be because he’s hiding something, but that it just wasn’t important enough to notice or relate. After all, if you’re fighting and running for your life, you may not actively notice a room is blue. But not telling someone about it doesn’t mean your hiding it. Besides, she wasn’t telling him everything either.
Footnote: 1) Down in a dark underground complex there just happens to be an old roll of duct tape laying around. Yeah, right.
Fave scenes: the raptors chasing them through the palace, Santa finally sharing everything with his wife, the effects of the aquamarine crystal and comparison between humans & bacteria.
This book is as crazy as the description sounds but does have its moments.
Shelly shouldn’t get so upset when Santa doesn’t tell her every detail of what happen. It may not be because he’s hiding something, but that it just wasn’t important enough to notice or relate. After all, if you’re fighting and running for your life, you may not actively notice a room is blue. But not telling someone about it doesn’t mean your hiding it. Besides, she wasn’t telling him everything either.
Footnote: 1) Down in a dark underground complex there just happens to be an old roll of duct tape laying around. Yeah, right.
Fave scenes: the raptors chasing them through the palace, Santa finally sharing everything with his wife, the effects of the aquamarine crystal and comparison between humans & bacteria.
December 16, 2025
Still has the same comedic writing and thought processes as the previous book. The fight scenes here though felt a bit dragged out, but overall still a good read around the holidays. Would've been nice to learn more about the antagonist, but that may pick up in the 3rd.
January 21, 2022
Lots of fun! A great sequel
This book was a great sequel. I love the hilarity of the story. The author wrote a great book that is like Christmas meets 1950 scifi.
This book was a great sequel. I love the hilarity of the story. The author wrote a great book that is like Christmas meets 1950 scifi.
January 1, 2024
Another fun book to finish out 2023.
December 17, 2024
My thoughts are about the same as the first book.
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