Official Review: The Story of Lucius Cane by Vanya Ferreira
Posted: 20 Mar 2016, 19:56
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The Story of Lucius Cane" by Vanya Ferreira.]
1 out of 4 stars
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1794 London: Lucius Cane is a vampire of an original sort. He prefers vampire blood, rather than human, and seems to have an inner voice named Tonas – though that is a story for a different time.
Jack “The Hound” Estenborugh is a violent man, a pirate with a terrible reputation. He also happens to be a lycanthrope – of sorts. Jack is propositioned to take out Lucius to pay back an old debt. However, the battle will not be easy. Lucius is no youngling; he has recently fed and is up for a good battle. When these two superhumans battle, there is sure to be destruction and pain. And no one can predict the outcome.
The Story of Lucius Cane is a short book about vampires and a lycanthrope. Ferreira does a good job at describing scenarios and making them easy to see in the mind’s eye. The dialect makes you believe you are in 1794 London and the fight scenes seem to be well thought out.
However, the book itself is very short – making it hard for the reader to establish a relationship with the characters. While we receive a background on Jack “The Hound” Estenborugh, on how he became a lycanthrope, and how he got his reputation, we receive absolutely no insight at all into Lucius Cane. This makes it feel like Cane is a supporting character instead of the book’s titular character. Also, there is a character in the beginning of the book, Anna, who seems to be just a passing character, but we get a good bit of information that wasn’t necessarily needed. Also, there are some missing and misplaced punctuations.
I would recommend reading this after there are a few books released in the series. Otherwise, the reader may be left with too many questions and not enough answers. The potential is there but there just isn’t enough in this particular book to form a rapport with the characters or get into the storyline. Nothing that grabs at you and makes you rush to get the next book in the series
After a lot of thought and contemplation, I have to give this book a rating of 1 out of 4 stars. There were just so many questions left unanswered, the readers only get to know one of the characters, and there is not much plot development. Therefore, this book could not stand on its own; you would have to have more than this first book to get a relationship with the characters and any plot development.
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1 out of 4 stars
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1794 London: Lucius Cane is a vampire of an original sort. He prefers vampire blood, rather than human, and seems to have an inner voice named Tonas – though that is a story for a different time.
Jack “The Hound” Estenborugh is a violent man, a pirate with a terrible reputation. He also happens to be a lycanthrope – of sorts. Jack is propositioned to take out Lucius to pay back an old debt. However, the battle will not be easy. Lucius is no youngling; he has recently fed and is up for a good battle. When these two superhumans battle, there is sure to be destruction and pain. And no one can predict the outcome.
The Story of Lucius Cane is a short book about vampires and a lycanthrope. Ferreira does a good job at describing scenarios and making them easy to see in the mind’s eye. The dialect makes you believe you are in 1794 London and the fight scenes seem to be well thought out.
However, the book itself is very short – making it hard for the reader to establish a relationship with the characters. While we receive a background on Jack “The Hound” Estenborugh, on how he became a lycanthrope, and how he got his reputation, we receive absolutely no insight at all into Lucius Cane. This makes it feel like Cane is a supporting character instead of the book’s titular character. Also, there is a character in the beginning of the book, Anna, who seems to be just a passing character, but we get a good bit of information that wasn’t necessarily needed. Also, there are some missing and misplaced punctuations.
I would recommend reading this after there are a few books released in the series. Otherwise, the reader may be left with too many questions and not enough answers. The potential is there but there just isn’t enough in this particular book to form a rapport with the characters or get into the storyline. Nothing that grabs at you and makes you rush to get the next book in the series
After a lot of thought and contemplation, I have to give this book a rating of 1 out of 4 stars. There were just so many questions left unanswered, the readers only get to know one of the characters, and there is not much plot development. Therefore, this book could not stand on its own; you would have to have more than this first book to get a relationship with the characters and any plot development.
******
The Story of Lucius Cane
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