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Genre: Dark fantasy, horror
Print length: 63 pages (15K words)
Age range: This is an adult book
Trigger warnings: violent deaths; implied bestiality
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Imagine if you had lived a life of cruel discipline from the time you were a child, and were constantly called upon to do battle for an emperor you had never seen. Now imagine that emperor orders you far off the map, into a frozen land where the sun never shines and the only light comes from the grinning moon. Imagine that once there, hundreds of miles from the warmth of civilization and the sun, you encounter supernatural beasts somewhere between wolf and man; cunning creatures who slaughter your comrades and lay siege to the fort you have built with your own hands. Imagine that one by one, your fellow legionnaires are torn to bits and consumed, or worse yet, turned into beasts themselves…until at last, only you remain. The sole survivor and inhabitant of Fort Luna. Now imagine that’s where the story begins.
PRAISE FOR WOLF WEATHER
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I had already read Watson’s other books, “Cage Life”, “Knuckle Down”, and “Sinner’s Cross”, so I was interested in what he would have to interest in the realm of horror. This is a boots-on-the-ground view of a most unpleasant situation for our protagonist, and it kept me gripped from beginning to end.” Amazon review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “In all his writing, Miles Watson is a master of liminal spaces, not just the worlds that we inhabit in the extremes of our experience but the other worlds just beyond those, the doors we don’t open. This brief novella takes you step by step towards those doors, opens them oh-so-gently, pushes you through, and closes the door. A chilling, disturbing, disorienting little book. Like everything by this author, well worth the journey” Amazon Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Miles Watson is one of the most successful independent writers of his generation. He holds undergraduate degrees in Criminal Justice and History and a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction, and served in law enforcement for nearly ten years before moving to Los Angeles, where he has worked on over 200 episodes of television and half a dozen feature films. But his first and last passion is writing. His various works have won the following:
CAGE LIFE – Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Runner Up (2016): Zealot Script Magazine “Book of the Year” (2017); Best Indie Book Award – Mystery & Suspense (2018)
KNUCKLE DOWN – Writer’s Digest S.P.B.A. Honorable Mention (2019); Best Indie Book Award – Suspense (2019)
DEVILS YOU KNOW – Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing Finalist (2019)
THE NUMBERS GAME – Pinnacle Book Achievement Award – Novella – (2019)
NOSFERATU – Pinnacle Book Achievement Award – Novella – (2020)
SINNER’S CROSS – Best Indie Book Award – Historical Fiction – (2019); Book Excellence Award – Action (2020); Literary Titan Book Award – Gold Medal (2020); Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards – Finalist (2020); Readers Favorite Five Stars (2021)
THE VERY DEAD OF WINTER – Literary Titan Book Award – Gold Medal (2022); Pinnacle Book Achievement Award (2022); Book Excellence Award Finalist (2023)
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| My review |
Wolf Weather. I must be honest, I'm not entirely sure whether I enjoyed this or not. Not the sort of story I would normally have picked up - but that is one advantage of agreeing to review books for book tours, you come across titles you wouldn't usually look twice at.
I'm not a great fan of 'horror/dark fantasy', so I started Wolf Weather with some trepidation. And found that I was soon sucked into the life of Crowning, a disciplined soldier who had been groomed to follow the rules to the letter, even when orders were questionable at best, dangerous at worst. His world is a frozen one of night, where only the stars and moon shine; no sun, no civilisation. No people. Just beasts, supernatural beasts. And he has to live through it, deal with it and attempt to survive it.
At around 65 pages this is a short but absorbing read (and I'm pleased to see that the Amazon price for such a short novella is reasonable). I admire the author's imagination, he creates Crowning and his environment very well, with exquisite detail.
So why am I not sure whether I enjoyed it or not? I found the story somewhat 'uncomfortable' in the sense that it was a little depressing and somewhat disturbing - but like I said I am not a particular fan of horror or novels that could potentially leave you with nightmares. I'm more of a historical fiction and cosy mystery reader. BUT readers who enjoy this sort of fantasy will, I think, thoroughly enjoy Wolf Weather as an absorbing, and cleverly written read.
**** 4 stars
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