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Outcast: Where Angels Dwell
“Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
An angel has fallen. Stripped of his station and imprisoned inside the vessel, never to be heard from again.
The vessel is not a box. It is not a building. The vessel…is a man. Friend. Brother. War hero. Werewolf. Nathaniel.
Nathaniel drifted through life, never finding a place he felt welcome. That was until he met her and his life changed. It didn’t matter to him that she belonged to a pack of werewolves. He would spend the rest of his life with her, either as a man or a beast. Then, as fast as it started, it came to a brutal end. She was murdered. Slashed to ribbons by a rogue werewolf, Stephen Taxton. Angry, grief stricken and ashamed that he couldn’t save her, Nathaniel left the pack in search of the murdering beast.
Unbeknownst to Nathaniel, Taxton wasn’t after the girl. He was after Nathaniel. Sent there on a secret mission to bring the vessel back to his employer, the maniacal sorcerer, Adrian Vandenberg.
Two years later, Nathaniel’s search has brought him to Hudson,
NY, where he learns the truth about his beloved's death, about the fallen angel locked inside him and the warlock determined to rip the power of the heavens from his cold dead body.
Where Angels Dwell reprints the first action packed installment of the Outcast Trilogy started in the No Vacancies Adventure series.
An angel has fallen. Stripped of his station and imprisoned inside the vessel, never to be heard from again.
The vessel is not a box. It is not a building. The vessel…is a man. Friend. Brother. War hero. Werewolf. Nathaniel.
Nathaniel drifted through life, never finding a place he felt welcome. That was until he met her and his life changed. It didn’t matter to him that she belonged to a pack of werewolves. He would spend the rest of his life with her, either as a man or a beast. Then, as fast as it started, it came to a brutal end. She was murdered. Slashed to ribbons by a rogue werewolf, Stephen Taxton. Angry, grief stricken and ashamed that he couldn’t save her, Nathaniel left the pack in search of the murdering beast.
Unbeknownst to Nathaniel, Taxton wasn’t after the girl. He was after Nathaniel. Sent there on a secret mission to bring the vessel back to his employer, the maniacal sorcerer, Adrian Vandenberg.
Two years later, Nathaniel’s search has brought him to Hudson,
NY, where he learns the truth about his beloved's death, about the fallen angel locked inside him and the warlock determined to rip the power of the heavens from his cold dead body.
Where Angels Dwell reprints the first action packed installment of the Outcast Trilogy started in the No Vacancies Adventure series.
194 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 13, 2010
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About the author
Lucien Black
13 books66 followersLucien Black is the author of the No Vacancies Adventure Series and the first installment of the werewolf horror trilogy, Outcast: Where Angels Dwell.
Black currently resides in Orange County, Ca with his wife and children. He continues to work on the No Vacancies series as well as the second installment of the Outcast Trilogy, Hell On Earth. .
Genres: Comic Books, Speculative Fiction, Paranormal Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Black currently resides in Orange County, Ca with his wife and children. He continues to work on the No Vacancies series as well as the second installment of the Outcast Trilogy, Hell On Earth. .
Genres: Comic Books, Speculative Fiction, Paranormal Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
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May 13, 2011
Outcast: Where Angels Dwell is a fast moving novella which clearly highlights Mr. Black’s creative instincts. Conceptually, it’s a four star read but some major technical problems brought it down to 3 stars for me. There were some editing problems that caused me to stop and re-read passages multiple times to figure out what was going on. In fairness, some of it may have happened during the conversion from PDF to Kindle but quite a bit of it was sloppy editing. It was not at deal breaker level so I went forward.
There were two major problem areas for me as a reader. First -- what I call the ‘Fellowship of the Rings Multiple Heroes Gone Awry” syndrome. I love having multiple people elevated to hero in a story provided their introduction to the story makes sense and is smooth. Being a novella, this story did not have the leisure to use this device at the level it was used. It made the story choppy. Second -- lack of character descriptions beyond age, hair color, and race. I could not visualize what these people looked like. The main hero is blond and could be anywhere from 30-40 and I am seriously guessing. He is described as ‘medium build’. I don’t know what that means, I don’t want to work that hard to figure it out, and it’s too subjective.
Now to the good stuff!
A human turned werewolf hosting a fallen angel he doesn’t know about. The potential is limitless. His name is Nathaniel and he has lost his wife a few years earlier at the hands of an evil werewolf named Stephen working for a crazy power-hungry villain named Adrian with a nasty sidekick/bodyguard named Castor. Adrian is some sort of sorcerer that has magically taken on the strengths of a vampire. He is ever in the market for objects of power so of course he wants possession of the fallen angel lying dormant in Nathaniel. In the process of hunting Nathaniel for his boss Adrian, Stephen has killed anyone that got in his way. The story picks up with the murder of a cop’s family. The cop, Jackie, meets Nathaniel when he goes to her family’s crime scene to be sure it was Stephen’s bloody work. The number of characters just keeps growing so I am not going to get into who else shows up and for what purpose.
My favorite element was the use of a timeline. The story takes place over a day and a half. We are taken from scene to scene rapidly without losing the sense of place and time. The timeline helped to organize the story for me which was critical with so many characters in different locations most of the time. Also, there are many layers to this story which the timeline help to compartmentalize. Finally, the timeline gave it the feel of a graphic novel in how it moved forward. There is an abundance of action which I felt was well visualized and delivered. There were several nail-bitters for me.
I will probably read more of Lucien Black’s work. He packs a punch with the level of action and creative concepts that no one would think to try – a werewolf with angel wings and the power of heaven at his finger tips. Awsome.
There were two major problem areas for me as a reader. First -- what I call the ‘Fellowship of the Rings Multiple Heroes Gone Awry” syndrome. I love having multiple people elevated to hero in a story provided their introduction to the story makes sense and is smooth. Being a novella, this story did not have the leisure to use this device at the level it was used. It made the story choppy. Second -- lack of character descriptions beyond age, hair color, and race. I could not visualize what these people looked like. The main hero is blond and could be anywhere from 30-40 and I am seriously guessing. He is described as ‘medium build’. I don’t know what that means, I don’t want to work that hard to figure it out, and it’s too subjective.
Now to the good stuff!
A human turned werewolf hosting a fallen angel he doesn’t know about. The potential is limitless. His name is Nathaniel and he has lost his wife a few years earlier at the hands of an evil werewolf named Stephen working for a crazy power-hungry villain named Adrian with a nasty sidekick/bodyguard named Castor. Adrian is some sort of sorcerer that has magically taken on the strengths of a vampire. He is ever in the market for objects of power so of course he wants possession of the fallen angel lying dormant in Nathaniel. In the process of hunting Nathaniel for his boss Adrian, Stephen has killed anyone that got in his way. The story picks up with the murder of a cop’s family. The cop, Jackie, meets Nathaniel when he goes to her family’s crime scene to be sure it was Stephen’s bloody work. The number of characters just keeps growing so I am not going to get into who else shows up and for what purpose.
My favorite element was the use of a timeline. The story takes place over a day and a half. We are taken from scene to scene rapidly without losing the sense of place and time. The timeline helped to organize the story for me which was critical with so many characters in different locations most of the time. Also, there are many layers to this story which the timeline help to compartmentalize. Finally, the timeline gave it the feel of a graphic novel in how it moved forward. There is an abundance of action which I felt was well visualized and delivered. There were several nail-bitters for me.
I will probably read more of Lucien Black’s work. He packs a punch with the level of action and creative concepts that no one would think to try – a werewolf with angel wings and the power of heaven at his finger tips. Awsome.
July 21, 2012
Another great reason to try something new. Lots of great authors out there people. Interesting characters, story kept me turning the pages into the wee hours of the morning. Thats all I ask, and this book delivered. Another good sign - Im waiting to see what happens next. :)
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