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Needs a lot of work

I read three chapters and sadly gave up on the book. Why?
1) No line justification
2) Bad sentence and paragraph structure
3) Way too much telling and random thoughts
4) Introduction of characters with zero background. I never knew who they were or why they were relevant
5) When only two people are talking, he said, she said, is not required

This book is at best, a good first draft. I hope the author finds a good proofreader/editor and cleans the work up. It needs it.


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The Gift of Fury The Count Albritton Series edition by Richard Jackson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Count Albritton is a paranormal private investigator. For example, he helps people figure out if they are really stalked by a vampire and what to do about it. As the story begins, we find Count in a hospital, a would-be assassin with a pillow and a knife at his side. Soon, he is embroiled with a lot more than saving his own skin.
On the plus side, there is a great cast of characters from the supernatural world guardian angel, immortals, demons, sorcerers, vampires,in a sort of D&D-ish world where it's all about the mission and not a lot of thought is put into planing.
On the minus side, I was annoyed with the many flashbacks. Going back and forth was really confusing and the connections between now an then were awkward. On at least two occasions, I found myself going back a few pages, trying to figure out just what was going on. There is also a lot left unexplained and probably not on purpose. It felt more like the author had the basis of his novel so clear in his head that he forgot that we didn't know what came before or who (or what) the characters really are.
For the same atmosphere, I suggest the Sandman Slim novels. There are better crafted and the writting is way superior.
If you're looking for urban fantasy with lots of action, and don't mind typos, this is well-worth your time.

Synopsis Count Albritton, a self-styled paranormal investigator, begins by looking into an attempted burglary at the NYC apartment of one of his sorcerer friends. It doesn't take long for this seemingly routine investigation to turn into a battle for the future of the world.

Storytelling five stars. I'm not a fan of clichés like "can't put it down," but that was almost how it was for me. I kept picking up my at odd moments during the day to take in a couple chapters. When my battery got low, I pulled it onto an iPad and kept reading. Lots of action and no long stretches of boredom to counter it. Sexual tension is present, but no explicit sex scenes for those who are offended by such. Character development was okay, we learn more about each of them as we go, but the villain was just a little too two-dimensional.

Writing four stars. If you are put off by a story told in first-person present tense, that's what this is. I didn't notice until I was a few chapters in, though. About a third of the story is a flashback to events that happened before (the story begins with Albritton in a hospital, recovering from various injuries from those events) -- that was a little gimmicky, but the story itself was strong enough to overcome it.

Editing three stars. No glaring continuity errors that I saw, the story itself holds together very well. There are far too many copyediting problems though dropped words, typos, and so on. That cost the book a five-star rating overall. I hope a second edition, and any sequels, addresses this issue.
I enjoyed The Gift of Fury. There's a solid story and characters that are well depicted. The writing is fairly tight even with the few typos that are mentioned in other reviews.

Here is what I liked - The Count is an intriguing person. I like that his knee is consistently bothering him throughout the story and that he actually gets injured and just doesn't walk it off. The supporting cast is rounded out enough to where they won't be confused with 2 dimensional cutouts. The relationship between Count and Kara seems ripe for further exploration with the complications of the Brazillian vampire and the Federal Agent. I also enjoyed the author bucking the trend of overdoing the sex that runs rampant through many novels in this genre. For a change, there's a story without all the explicit relationship details. It's a nice change of pace.

The way the author wove his "hidden world" into the "real world" worked very well. His magical system made sense and the way most normal people ignore the things they don't want to see was executed nicely. The world building is one of the best parts of the story and leaves ample room for exploration in the future.

Here's what I think can be improved - The fight scenes didn't get my blood pumping. I felt the ones in this novel came close, but didn't quite make it over the threshold. In the sequels, I hope the author can develop his skills in this area further. I think there could have been a bit more of Jennifer Marino in the beginning. She kind of snuck out of the narrative in the last quarter of the story and it came off as rushed to me.

Best of luck to the author in future volumes.
An original slant on demon/vampire/fae/magic stories. Seemingly there
are two sides in this story the dragons and the seven. The dragons
are sort of good and the seven are sort of bad. The hero is the
agent of the dragons (sort of a surprise to him) and has as such
a shield, a weapon, and an advisor (the advisor is a ``valkyrie''
guardian angel). In this story the hero gets his act together
and manages to keep the seven imprisoned, though they have woken up.

The action was fast and there were interesting supporting characters.
I was sorry the book ended and will buy the sequel certainly rates
five stars.
Needs a lot of work

I read three chapters and sadly gave up on the book. Why?
1) No line justification
2) Bad sentence and paragraph structure
3) Way too much telling and random thoughts
4) Introduction of characters with zero background. I never knew who they were or why they were relevant
5) When only two people are talking, he said, she said, is not required

This book is at best, a good first draft. I hope the author finds a good proofreader/editor and cleans the work up. It needs it.