Biff... Bam... Boom... Vampire Ash
Action is the first and last word for Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock novels.
several times in a couple books
Whatever. I looked up the Jane Yellowrock book to discover it's a popular, long running series. I decided to compare first and later mass paperback in the series because so many series lose their energy after a few books. Jane Yellowrock, a vampire hunter, stars in fourteen books and is still going strong, if you believe the reviews.
[I'm betting if you start the series, you'll continue reading the series.]
The first book in the series, Skinwalker, starts with Yellowrock's arrival in New Orleans. Her first encounter with her vampire employers doesn't go smoothly. The action just escalates as she hunts for a rogue vampire who is a danger to human and vampire, alike.
Skinwalker
provides a great launching pad for the series. Great secondary characters. Plot twists. And, did I mention action with plenty of mayhem?
Dark Queen is the twelfth book in the series. The action is still there, but the character development seems to have disappeared. Oh, the characters still have problems but, to me, they didn't grow like the characters in the first book, especially the secondary ones.
Yellowrock is
threatened by more than "death by vampire". She uses her ability to manipulate time while changing the odds of winning a fight in her favor. The cost is a fast-eating cancer that trreatens her life. She lives, obviously because there a subsequent books.
The problem with Dark Queen is all the backstory. Too many scenes just start with lists of who the players are and why they are important to the contest for who will rule the New Orleans seethe and Europe, combined. It slows down the read tremendously.
Still, I'm betting if you start the series, you'll continue reading the series. The reviews say the odds are in my favor of winning.I'd give Skinwalker 5*, Dark Queen only 3.5* because it was so slow in comparison. Read what others say on:
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My Writing Rut
Have been watching a lot of pig videos lately as a relief from marketing. It's nice to see that some pigs get to roam free again. Watch a video here -- if you want to look at happy, crate free pigs.If you a deep into regenerative farming, you can watch pigs raised in "forests" in a similar way as the pigs The Pig Wars were.
As for marketing, I'm doing better than I did with either There Be Demons or Running from Demons, but the ROI still leaves a lot to be desired. Sales for The Pig Wars isn't doing too badly. [It's ranking 89 in one category at regular price.]
When I advertise, it bounces regularly above 100,000 on the overall Amazon rankings, and above 100 in category rankings. Not bad for a hobby writer. Also, have eleven reviews in two months. You can check out the medieval fantasy novel here.
"The Last Battle to Save Magic", the prequel to The Pig Wars, is progressing. I sent the draft to my editor for its second round of content edits. Now I'm grumbling over the blurb which is confused since Mariah was appointed commander of the reinforcements, while Renna is the POV character. The initial prologue is now a seventy page novella.
Guess, I'll start with something like: Renna didn't mind when her friend, Mariah, was appointed leader of the magic-wielding reinforcements of the Half-Elven eastern defenses. She was going home and would see her father again.
Yeah, you just got a cover reveal.
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