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As the Resistance attempts to overthrow their vampiric alien masters, elite Cat force member David Valentine embarks on a terrifying journey in search of a long-lost weapon that will guarantee their victory-and the end of the Kurian Order's domination of Earth.
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E.E. Knight graduated from Northern Illinois University with a double major in history and political science, then made his way through a number of jobs that related to neither.
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New Orleans, January, the forty-eighth year of the Kurian Order: Formerly glorious in its decay, under the New Order the city transformed from an aging beauty into a waterlogged corpse. Read the first page
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New Orleans, January, the forty-eighth year of the Kurian Order: Formerly glorious in its decay, under the New Order the city transformed from an aging beauty into a waterlogged corpse. Read the first page
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Tale of the Thunderbolt is my favorite so far!!!!!!!!, April 10 2007
By Rhona L. Westbrook - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tale of the Thunderbolt: Book Three of The Vampire Earth (Mass Market Paperback)
I enjoyed Way of the Wolf and Choice of the Cat, but Tale of the Thunderbolt is my favorite so far. Maybe this is because I am not a sci-fi buff. Maybe it's because I dig dark and urban fantasy(where we like a fast moving story-line and sympathetic characters)or maybe it's because the plot is so much deeper and more fascinating.There were times in this story where goosebumps flashed across my skin. Other places where a lump came into my throat and still others, where I laughed out loud. What I loved most though, I think, are the supporting characters in this book. I grew very attached to some, like Ahn-Kah the 'golden one' and the half-drunk sailor who showed his true metal when the stakes were down. Tale of the Thunderbolt is chuck full of amazing characters. Some good, some bad and others who walk that gray line in between. That's the sort of thing I like to have in my stories.
If you dig fast paced action, suspense and gut-wrenching emotion...you'll dig this book.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not up to par with the previous two, May 17 2005
By Neker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tale of the Thunderbolt: Book Three of The Vampire Earth (Mass Market Paperback)
I could barely stand waiting for this next one in the series to come out. I so enjoyed the first two. The futuristic world created by Knight is entralling and even a bit scary. This book did not follow through on either one of those emotions.Basically Valentine has spent a year on a secret mission as a Cat to secure a strong enough ship to obtain a secret weapon to fight the Kur. Somehow the knowledge of this "secret weapon" had only landed in the revolutionaries laps recently. The weapon is located in Haiti and Valintine doesn't even know what it is, only that the "contact" whom never saw him before in his life would recognize him and contact him. Strange? Well, it was. This was only one of many loose strings throughout the story.
What I missed most about Knights writing was the incredible development of characters and realtionships with these characters. I didn't see any this time. Valentine takes up a bit of a romance in Jamaca, but if I was suppose to feel sorry for him for having to move on, well, I really didn't even know this new character well enough to even care.
Overall, I still enjoy this series and plan to continue reading them. I'm hoping the next one, Valentine's Rising, will pick back up where the first two left off.
Happy reading!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great filler book, Mar 2 2005
By Andrew C. Johnson "Readaholic" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Tale of the Thunderbolt: Book Three of The Vampire Earth (Mass Market Paperback)
Read it in one day. Great set up for the next book thank goodness it will be published this year also. I was hoping for a little more progression in Valentine though. At times it seemed that the Hunters arts had almost left him as a normal person. I was also hoping that he would have progessed to the next level of the hunters arts as a Bear but that will hopefully occur in the next installment. All the other books in this series have dealt with a new art each time but there really is very little information on the Bear caste that I would like to see very soon.
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