Blood Moon Wildcat Wizard Book 1 edition by Al K Line Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Meet Arthur "The Hat" Salzman. Gangster. Wizard. Screwed.
When I was killed for the fifth time, and before breakfast, I knew for sure I'd made a terrible mistake.
It was meant to be a simple job. Steal item, deliver said item to my posh broker, get paid. Easy peasy wizard squeezy.
Blame it on the insomnia, my own greed, or maybe just stupidity, but I swear on my wand I didn't know what was in the bag. If I had, I'd never have got involved.
Soon, every gangster, spook, and magic abuser in the city wanted what I had. But they went too far, broke the Code. Backed up by my faery godmother, and a Stepford mom who's main goal in life was to be my sidekick, the body count escalated as the truth was revealed. And they all forgot one important thing.
The Hat's a goddamn Wildcat Wizard!
Blood Moon Wildcat Wizard Book 1 edition by Al K Line Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I have been a huge fan of Jim Butcher's, The "Dresden Chronicles". I found Mr. Line's book, "Blood Moon", equaling enjoyable and found Arthur Saltsman to be a very compelling character. I don't really know why, and I am certainly not a fan of fantasy, but there is just something about a wise guy wizard that I find very amusing!!Product details
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Blood Moon Wildcat Wizard Book 1 edition by Al K Line Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I'm very glad I gave this a chance. I kept passing over it in my queue because of the reading sample, despite being intrigued by the reviews. The first three chapters or so are a bit misleading in tone, the action & characters being somewhat "madcap". But the book, & the series, becomes much more complex than this might lead one to believe - without losing the promising originality of the opening. The tone of the book does vary a good deal, but this is due to the complexity of the narrator's character & relationships. There's an increasing cast of interrelated & well developed relationships with characters from surprising backgrounds. These are rooted in a complex, 'believable' & mostly well-revealed world with no info dumps. I was frequently surprised by the direction of the action, the motives of characters & the content of the narrator's internal monologue. I strongly recommend giving it a chance & think the series only gets better as it goes along.
The story itself isn't bad, if lacking in originality, but the writing got in its own way and stopped the action time and time again while I tried to puzzle out what the author was saying. Mr. Al K. Line (not to be confused with Mr. Al K. Hollick) has an unfortunate habit of introducing a character then describing them well after the fact, sometimes pages later. For instance, Arthur talks to a just-introduced character "Pepper" during an entire action sequence without ever saying what Pepper is a man, woman, duck, badger, goblin, are they young, old, what? And Pepper replies back, what does he/she/it sound like? Look like? Are they scared, excited, bored? You'll have to wait until the next chapter to find out. By then I'm utterly distracted with trying to figure out what Pepper is or is not that I've lost track of what was happening.
Similarly, the author will have a character do something now but describe it later, in such an awkward way you have to go back and re-read to get what just happened. Add in, his daughter hands him "something so wonderful and perfect" that he could just kiss her for it. What? What did she hand him? Well, paragraphs later, we learn it was a cigarette. The author never mentioned the wizard was a smoker before, so the reader had no idea this would be a big deal. (Hope that doesn't spoil the 'surprise.')
Then there's the writing itself. It's... not good. There's pages and pages of frenetic activity, then entire chapters of exposition on magic, or meditation, or eating disorders, or vampires that bring the story to a screeching halt The author doesn't seem skilled or confident enough to weave this information into the storline, so he has his hero stop several times to fill us in on things we didn't need to know. And it's repetitive. Arthur's not a good father. Arthur should do better by his kid. Arthur feels bad that his kid isn't safe because he's a bad father who puts her in danger. (Yes, ok, we got it.)
Run-on sentences and sentence fragments, slang, and rather tepid humor are other problems that bog down the book. Here's an example of two of the former
"The story went it took a long time for him to realize his true potential, and only after many years did he understand what it was he had become. Slowly losing the battle with his body and mind, until eventually he died and was reborn as a being at one with the creature he'd unleashed and battled before somehow sending it back to a corner of the Nolands it called home."
That's verbatim.
Next, in terms of slang "we loves us some steam" and "I done summat wrong," when the character doesn't otherwise talk that way, was annoying. And that brings us at last to the humor.
Let's put it this way if you thought "Al K.Line" was a clever play on words, you might find some laughs in this book. The hero thinks giving his friend a coffee cup that says, "I'm a mug, get over it" is hilarious. He "wisecracks" his way out of difficult situations. He clearly believes his repartee is witty in the extreme. Sadly, I don't happen to agree with him.
This was a kindle unlimited choice and unfortunately finding a decent read that way is getting harder and harder. It's nice that "Mr. Line" is writing books, but he really, really should get a professional editor to help pull his story together coherently and eliminate the unnecessary exposition. Taking a few writing classes would help as well. And please don't try so hard to be funny.
I gave Blood Moon a very kind two stars and won't be reading the next in the series. A good rewrite and restructuring might help make this a more enjoyable read.
Thanks Al. Love it! Keep writing great stuff.
Al's done it again, sucked me into a new world slightly more interesting than the Dark Enforcer series world dark and filled with proper baddies. Arthur the hat is a well developed character with some unusual quirks. Most unusual for a wildcat wizard a teenage daughter. Great read and disappointing that the waiting is so long for the next story.
Meh. Flashes of wit, colourful walk-ons. Much laboured twists. Predictable hobby-horses,
dubious motivations, flimsy support/ background. Won't be reading the others.
A great read and I can't wait for the next. Please hurry !
An interesting new world. I liked Arthur and his daughter George. There are hints of other detective magic stories but this is somehow gentler. There are questions I still have about the characters but that's ok.
I have been a huge fan of Jim Butcher's, The "Dresden Chronicles". I found Mr. Line's book, "Blood Moon", equaling enjoyable and found Arthur Saltsman to be a very compelling character. I don't really know why, and I am certainly not a fan of fantasy, but there is just something about a wise guy wizard that I find very amusing!!
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