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Review by soumswriter -- The Witch of Endor: Vampires
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Witch of Endor: Vampires" by RK Wheeler.]
3 out of 4 stars
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The Witch of Endor : Vampires, is an entertaining fantasy novel written by R. K. Wheeler and it is in the genre of young adult.
Lilith is a witch who can speak with the dead. For her living, she sells amulets and charms and converses with the dead. Lilith falls in love with the handsome and cold, Lamech, who is also the first vampire to walk on Earth. Lamech is cursed to become a vampire when he kills his great-great-great-grandfather, Cain. After Lilith comes to know that Lamech is a vampire, she allows him to turn her into a vampire so that they can live together for eternity.
The surprising detail in this novel is that Lilith and Lamech have a child. This child is none other than Medusa, with her head full of venomous serpents and a human body with serpentine tail. For a mother, her child is the most beautiful person in the world, no matter how the child looks like. Lilith loves Medusa with all her heart, but Lamech detests the child. The family sets sail to Greece from Endor to escape King David’s troops, where a catastrophe befalls them and Lamech gets separated from Lilith and Medusa. The rest of the novel touches many aspects such as how Lilith and Medusa survive in Greece, how Lamech becomes adrift at sea and an introduction to the villain, Maldivar.
R.K.Wheeler seamlessly weaves vampires, werewolves, biblical and Greek mythological characters into the same tapestry. The characters captured my interest from the beginning to the end. The humanization of Medusa as a lovelorn teenager was unique. I also liked the short poem at the beginning of each chapter which introduced the content of each chapter.
I would give this novel a 3 out of 4 stars. The novel seemed professionally edited. A few words were repetitive such as the sickle moon etc. Only one chapter was dedicated to early romance between Lamech and Lilith, I would have liked to read more. Also, a few chapters went into great unnecessary details such as the gladiator match and the origin of giants. The novel ended with the scope for a sequel but I felt the ending to be abrupt. Also the fate of one important character is not known at the end of the novel, which was disappointing for me. I also felt the biblical passages which showed up at a few locations to be distracting and difficult to read.
The novel will be of interest to young adult fantasy fiction readers who like witches, vampires and Greek mythology. This novel stretches the imagination, and one should be flexible to accept a few out-of-the-box concepts such as vampires and werewolves co-existing with biblical characters.
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3 out of 4 stars
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The Witch of Endor : Vampires, is an entertaining fantasy novel written by R. K. Wheeler and it is in the genre of young adult.
Lilith is a witch who can speak with the dead. For her living, she sells amulets and charms and converses with the dead. Lilith falls in love with the handsome and cold, Lamech, who is also the first vampire to walk on Earth. Lamech is cursed to become a vampire when he kills his great-great-great-grandfather, Cain. After Lilith comes to know that Lamech is a vampire, she allows him to turn her into a vampire so that they can live together for eternity.
The surprising detail in this novel is that Lilith and Lamech have a child. This child is none other than Medusa, with her head full of venomous serpents and a human body with serpentine tail. For a mother, her child is the most beautiful person in the world, no matter how the child looks like. Lilith loves Medusa with all her heart, but Lamech detests the child. The family sets sail to Greece from Endor to escape King David’s troops, where a catastrophe befalls them and Lamech gets separated from Lilith and Medusa. The rest of the novel touches many aspects such as how Lilith and Medusa survive in Greece, how Lamech becomes adrift at sea and an introduction to the villain, Maldivar.
R.K.Wheeler seamlessly weaves vampires, werewolves, biblical and Greek mythological characters into the same tapestry. The characters captured my interest from the beginning to the end. The humanization of Medusa as a lovelorn teenager was unique. I also liked the short poem at the beginning of each chapter which introduced the content of each chapter.
I would give this novel a 3 out of 4 stars. The novel seemed professionally edited. A few words were repetitive such as the sickle moon etc. Only one chapter was dedicated to early romance between Lamech and Lilith, I would have liked to read more. Also, a few chapters went into great unnecessary details such as the gladiator match and the origin of giants. The novel ended with the scope for a sequel but I felt the ending to be abrupt. Also the fate of one important character is not known at the end of the novel, which was disappointing for me. I also felt the biblical passages which showed up at a few locations to be distracting and difficult to read.
The novel will be of interest to young adult fantasy fiction readers who like witches, vampires and Greek mythology. This novel stretches the imagination, and one should be flexible to accept a few out-of-the-box concepts such as vampires and werewolves co-existing with biblical characters.
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