Blood of the Wolf

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Summary: Not just lycanthropes
Review: Blood of the Wolf, left me panting for more! The characters where well developed and showed distinct, individual personality's that you either loved or hated!

The story line was very gripping, a real page turner! Richard is a very natural story teller and I look forward to more tales from this creative novelist!

L.A.Mackay

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Summary: Chilling
Review: Blood of the Wolf, left me panting for more! The characters where well developed and showed distinct, individual personality's that you either loved or hated!

The story line was very gripping, a real page turner! Richard is a very natural story teller and I look forward to more tales from this creative novelist!

L.A.Mackay

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Summary: Not just lycanthropes
Review: Gripping horror is often about the desires, both positive and negative, surrounding the family. Such is the case with Richard Leefs novel, a tale of brotherly competition gone bad illuminated by the supernatural. When a down-on-his-luck photographer accidentally shoots photos of a murder, he becomes the target for supernatural vengeancecor was he the target to begin with? The werewolf is perhaps one of those classic monsters most rich with symbolic possibilities, and Lee employs here an interesting conceit. When horror works, it not only scares us, it illuminates something dark in all of us. We look forward to more from this writer

Rating:
Summary: Not just lycanthropes
Review: Gripping horror is often about the desires, both positive and negative, surrounding the family. Such is the case with Richard Leefs novel, a tale of brotherly competition gone bad illuminated by the supernatural. When a down-on-his-luck photographer accidentally shoots photos of a murder, he becomes the target for supernatural vengeancecor was he the target to begin with? The werewolf is perhaps one of those classic monsters most rich with symbolic possibilities, and Lee employs here an interesting conceit. When horror works, it not only scares us, it illuminates something dark in all of us. We look forward to more from this writer

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Summary: Can't understand the rave reviews
Review: I just can't understand why the reviewers here like this book so much. Character development is weak at best. The pacing is disjointed and jerky. The dialog is stilted. I can't remember who talked about "disbelief suspended by the neck until dead, dead, dead", but it seems appropriate here. Supernatural, quasi-natural and pseudo-scientific explanations are jumbled together without any thought or consistency. The villains are cardboard, but that's alright because everyone else is.

It's just a bad book overall. And it's not even frightening.

Customers should save their money and avoid this book

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Summary: AuthorZone.Com Book Review
Review: Reviewed by: Stephanie Simpson-Woods And Bad Bob
When I think of the word "fear" Richard Lee immediately comes to mind. In Blood of the Wolf, Richard doesn't hold anything back. It had all of the elements I personally look for in a horror novel: It was fast paced, graphic and the plot was terrifyingly gripping.
Blood of the Wolf isn't your typical werewolf tale. You know the story about the man bitten by the monster and soon turning into one. Who hasn't? When I first started reading the book, it had that feel to it, but I was in for quite a surprise.
The story revolves around a man by the name of James Dennett, a photographer trying to pave his way into the mainstream, only to receive a hand full of rejections. He finally gets his big break when he receives a letter from a photography magazine requiring his services.
The job was simple enough: pick up the supplies he needed and head out to a beach near the caravan park in which he resided called Opera Sands. He would go at night to take photos of its evening landscape in hopes that his pictures would be chosen for the article. While he was shooting, his ears picked up the sound of innocent lovemaking in the darkness. As he took the pictures of the unknown couple, the muffled moans abruptly stopped and he found himself being attacked by some kind of deranged animal.
He eventually wakes up in a hospital, his body covered with huge, bloody gashes, the kind of wounds only a large, clawed animal could create. During his stay, James is visited by a doctor by the name of Carol Stevens who wants to help him remember that freakish night so the police could find the attacker, but she doesn't like what he tells her, that the attacker wasn't a person at all, but a Lycanthrope, or what most people would refer to as, a werewolf.
The twist that makes this story so unique is the fact that the werewolf isn't a werewolf, but his long, lost half brother, Alan Sheriff who is out for the ultimate revenge and at one time a patient of Dr. Stevens. He believes he is being righteous by killing the few people in James' life and waiting for that final moment when him and his brother are face to face so he can finish the blood trail he started.
You are probably wondering if there are any werewolves in this book. The answer is within another twist the book has to offer. Their Father, Duncan McDennett is a werewolf from a line of lycanthropes, who has kept tabs on the entire situation.
Blood of the Wolf is quite the tricky novel. You don't know what to expect while you're scanning the pages. The action in the book is finely detailed and the murders are extremely grotesque. The writer of fear, Richard Lee does an excellent job painting a vulgar picture of death and betrayal within the mind.

Usually novels that are heavy on character development are not my cup of tea. Blood Of The Wolf is an exception for some very good reasons. This novel takes place in a setting that I'd never been to and was illustrated for me extremely well. New Zealand is shown to the reader from the point of view that the ordinary person visiting there would see. Also, the violent scenes were choreographed very well and spaced wide enough apart so that suspense was created because all the cues were inserted just right to have me waiting for the next explosion to happen. Last but not least is the bad guy. He was a twisted soul who you really did want to see dead before the end of the book.

Everything in Blood Of The Wolf was described meticulously. If I have one complaint it's just that sometimes too much analysis and description was given. It slowed the story a little. That said, the realistic descriptions of New Zealand made me feel like I'd been on holiday there. Of course I could do without the maniac after my blood part of the trip for my vacation.

In Blood Of The Wolf what is most important is how the character of James Dennett is shown to us and what changes he goes through during the ordeal he survives. And what an ordeal it is. Dennett doesn't know it but he has a half brother that is tracking him and is killing everyone he cares about. Of course James Dennett is last on the list of his brother's victims.

Blood Of The Wolf was an intense book. Alternately moody and introspective, this time we're shown the inner workings of the mind of a victim who decides to fight back. This novel has a complicated plot with more twists and turns than you'd expect in a book of this size. The suspense throughout Blood Of The Wolf was as thick as a London fog and the action scenes were realistically graphic. If you want a book that will hook you and keep you on edge then Blood Of The Wolf is a novel you shouldn't miss.

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Summary: Could of been great
Review: The first seven pages of this book made me believe it would be a real page turner. After that things went amiss. You never really discover what motivated certain main characters to behave the way they did, or why. You also never find out what happened to certain characters, they are just dropped. I also expected a book that involved werewolves throughout, although that too left me disappointed. The worst of it was all the type o's I found. It got to the point where I just wanted to start circleing them out of frustration. I could go on but then I would give away the entire story line and if any one is still interested in reading this book that would be unfair.

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Summary: This Book Rocks
Review: This is a great story. Classic horror where anyone could be ripped to shreads at any moment. If you read this book, don't get to like any of the characters too much, they might very well be next on the butcher's list!