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Summary: Very impressive new author
Review: I was very impressed with this book and the author. It appears that a lot of research has gone into this book. I get tired of the "same old vampire" books... I thought that everything had been used. I was wrong. "Way of the Wolf" is very unique. I could not put the book down.
I was not impressed with the description on the back of the book... but I am glad that I bought the book. Now I want to know what will happen next... and can't wait for the next book.
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Summary: Congrats to Mr. Knight
Review: I won't bore you with a long review. A nice read with a believable main character. Looking forward to the sequel in May of 2004.
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Summary: Don't Hesitate to Buy This New Author!
Review: I work in a bookstore; I can read anything I want and I chose this! This book is like a stone rolling down hill...the further you are, the faster you'll go. I thought at the beginning that it looked interesting. By the middle, I was thinking, "This is a great book!" and by the end I just couldn't put it down. I agree with other reviewers that it's hard to classify into any one genre. Sci-fi, fantasy and horror all apply. So do survivalist and adventure. Three more look to be in the works and I, for one, would love to see a fourth. There're a lot of intricate, supporting plot and character details that could be whole stories on their own. I don't do spoilers, so just get a copy and meet David Valentine for yourself. It's a great read.
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Summary: A very good read!! Original work!!
Review: I'm not into vampire stories and I loved this book. Knight did an excellent job with the plot and his characters are believable and mortal in every aspect. I normally dont read the vampire genre because most authors who write them tend to lack imagination and creativity, so when I read this book I was pleased to find it both imagnitive and creative. Nothing is worse then someone claiming there book is the next "lord of the rings" or the next "count of monte cristo"!! If I wanted a book like the lord of the rings, I would pick up Tolkien's work!! Nice twist on the "nosferatu" experience, very original and I'm glad this book wasn't a "run of the mill".
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Summary: Wonderful Book!!!!!
Review: If your a fan of Battlefield Earth and I am Legend I highly recommend this book. Wonderful story. Can't wait until the next one.
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Summary: HA
Review: If your not one of the pigeons, you'll like this original book.
Otherwise your just one of them
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Summary: A new writer to check out
Review: In 2022 the world as we know it comes to an end. Aliens who call themselves Kurians have taken over Earth. The Kurians are not harmless and have very sinister designs on humanity. Each Kurian controls a group of Reapers - a vampire like wraith who prowls the night stealing a human's lifeforce or aura. The auras are the means with which the Kurians remain immortal. The Kurians have some of humanity in league with them. Many people have agreed to help the Kurians by selling out their neighbors. Most of humanity is now a farm animal for the Kurians. David Valentine has had to grow up very fast. His entire family died a senseless death. It wasn't Reapers - but humans. Valentine was forever changed that day. When Southern Command, the remnants of the military protecting everyone from the Kurians, comes calling for volunteers, Valentine is intrigued. His father was a Wolf, an elite military unit that engages in guerrilla warfare. By becoming a Wolf, Valentine is driven to find a way to defeat the Kurians and salvage what is left of humanity. Way of the Wolf is the first of the Vampire Earth series. As such, much of the book is spent creating the post-apocalyptic Earth and setting up Valentine as our hero. Valentine is very well fleshed out and likeable character. He endears himself to the reader. The story line of Way of the Wolf is slow to start, but once the action begins, it does not let up. The action is gripping and enthralling. The dichotomy of an 'elite' group with immunity from the Kurians and all the other 'sheep' presents many opportunities for the story line to take unseen twists. Who is more devious and deadly? The Reapers or your neighbors? Way of the Wolf is E.E. Knight's first book. The sequel, Choice of the Cat will be published in May, 2004 with a third novel, titled Tale of the Thunderbolt to follow in 2005. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Lost Cult, an adventure in the Tomb Raider world will be published in August, 2004. E.E. Knight has a very extensive website at http://www.vampireearth.com/
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Summary: Book of the Year !
Review: It's a book to have. For me the book of the year. I can't wait for more from this VERY promising author.
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Summary: That Rare Thing in Vampire Fiction: a New Idea
Review: It's hard to find new ideas in vampire fiction. All the great stories have been told; even Anne Rice has become old hat. Finding a really good vampire novel that doesn't rehash old matter is a rare treat, and that's why I enjoyed reading Way of the Wolf. Not that this is a perfect volume. Author E.E. Knight seems to have reduced two volumes into one here. This book is divided in two unequal halves. The longer first half establishes the character, setting, and back story for an intended series of novels. The second half begins the real story arc, one that isn't completed in this book. The two stories aren't grafted together perfectly, and the first half seems edited down from what may have been a novel-length first draft. But the story is compelling, and the characters are engaging enough to draw the reader through some of the slower exposition in the first part of the book. Combining the vampire novel with another staple of fantastic fiction, the post-apocalypse, this novel is simultaneously reminiscent of Dracula and A Canticle for Leibowitz. A story this inclusive could easily devolve into tasteless pablum, but Knight is a strong enough writer to keep the work strong and flowing. The episodic nature suggests this book would translate well into a movie or, preferably, a TV mini-series, yet is literary enough to justify being written as a novel. Even the word choice is subtle enough to create moods without having to spell everything out all at once. I would have liked to see more of the plot threads from the first half of the novel carried into the second half. By this I mean Gabrielle Cho, who seems to disappear from the narrative when she's no longer an part of the direct action. However, for an action-driven novel, it's far superior to most of what gets produced today. This is the first novel in a series, and the debut novel from its author. It pops it's eminently readable, and it suggests wonderful future possibilities from Knight. I look forward to the second volume, and more, from this promising new author.
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Summary: really good book
Review: Knight, E.E. Way of the Wolf: Book One of the Vampire Earth. New York, 2003. 382pgs.
E.E Knight's novel Way of the Wolf: Book One of the Vampire Earth is an incredible sci-fi novel with a fantasy undertone and a military backbone. This is a story about David Valentine, a young man who has grown up on an Earth ruled by beings known as the Kur. The Kur are a race of super intelligent aliens that have learned to extend their already long life span to near immortality by living off the auras of other living things. The year is 2065 and David, left an orphan by lackeys of the Kur, has come of age and left home to join the ranks of humanity's last hope, the Hunters. Led by the Lifweavers, aliens who can enhance a human's natural abilities, David and his fellow Hunters battle the Kur's genetically created cloaked minions known as Reapers. David's journeys take him from the Northern Central Plains of America to the South and Back again all the while aware of the Kur's presence even in the most remote areas. With an emotional and action packed climax in the corrupted and rundown city of Chicago this book will have you racing to the bookstore to get the second installment.
From cover to cover this novel captured me and drew me into the story with an iron fist. The story is very in depth and goes back to before the time of the ancient Egyptians. It is very descriptive and I would not recommend it to the weak of mind and/or stomach. But if you like sci-fi or action, I predict that you will enjoy this.
Have you ever dealt with people who have lost everything in just an hour? In the morning you leave the house where your wife, your children, your parents live. You return and you find a smoking pit. Then something happens to you - to a certain extent you stop being human. You do not need any glory, money anymore; revenge becomes your only joy. And because you no longer cling to life, death avoids you, the bullets fly past. You become a wolf.
¯ Russian General Aleksander Lebed,
Veteran of Afghanistan
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