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Reaper II: Neophyte
Samantha Bennet is not your normal, average, ordinary teenage girl.
She has a secret.
A very deadly secret she calls...the Dark Thing.
The Dark Thing saved her life a short time ago...it covered her body, armed her and gave her the courage, senses and strength to hunt down the three men who attacked her.
That fateful night, she went from victim to victor in bloodshed that not only seemed to nourish the Dark Thing, but ensured that those vile men could never hurt anyone ever again.
But now what?
The Dark Thing is still there, lying dormant under her skin, unless she wills it forth. It is a weapon, it is a shield, it augments strength and has a hunger for the blood of the guilty.
What is it for?
Where did it come from?
What does it want next?
Exactly how is she supposed to keep it a secret?
And how does it fit into her plans?
Especially now that she feels that its her civic duty to hunt the night for the most vile scum that the City can offer?
After all, the Dark Thing, well - it seems as though it needs to be fed...
She has a secret.
A very deadly secret she calls...the Dark Thing.
The Dark Thing saved her life a short time ago...it covered her body, armed her and gave her the courage, senses and strength to hunt down the three men who attacked her.
That fateful night, she went from victim to victor in bloodshed that not only seemed to nourish the Dark Thing, but ensured that those vile men could never hurt anyone ever again.
But now what?
The Dark Thing is still there, lying dormant under her skin, unless she wills it forth. It is a weapon, it is a shield, it augments strength and has a hunger for the blood of the guilty.
What is it for?
Where did it come from?
What does it want next?
Exactly how is she supposed to keep it a secret?
And how does it fit into her plans?
Especially now that she feels that its her civic duty to hunt the night for the most vile scum that the City can offer?
After all, the Dark Thing, well - it seems as though it needs to be fed...
- GenresFantasyParanormal
96 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 9, 2012
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About the author
Amanda M. Holt
28 books5 followersBorn in British Columbia, Canada in 1979, raised in Manitoba, Amanda Mary-Margaret Holt is the oldest of four children. She began writing at an early age, stories that always seemed to be of one paranormal genre or another. Sometimes these stories thrilled her teachers and parents...other times, they served only to horrify.
With no formal post-secondary training in English or literature studies, Amanda credits various teachers (Mr. Elliott and Mr. Ortwein, for example), her family, and her dear friend Ms. T with fostering her growth and development as an author.
Amanda worked a variety of jobs as a younger adult: she was a graphic artist, a bartender, an electrician's apprentice, a security guard, a graphic artist, a waitress, an adult novelty clerk, and at one point, even an Electrolux sales person. She recieved her Computer Programmer/Analyst diploma in 2003 and is now pursuing Bachelor of Nursing studies at the fourth-year level.
While dark fantasy is her favourite genre to write in, she has tried her hand at both mainstream erotica and contemporary romance and enjoyed those as well. So long as her heroine is a woman who is brave enough to face her darkest fears and bold enough to realize her innermost fantasies, therein lies a tale that Miss Holt aspires to tell.
You can email Amanda at holt_writer@hotmail.com or visit her webpage at www.amandamholt.com
Also writes as Alessandra Gayle
With no formal post-secondary training in English or literature studies, Amanda credits various teachers (Mr. Elliott and Mr. Ortwein, for example), her family, and her dear friend Ms. T with fostering her growth and development as an author.
Amanda worked a variety of jobs as a younger adult: she was a graphic artist, a bartender, an electrician's apprentice, a security guard, a graphic artist, a waitress, an adult novelty clerk, and at one point, even an Electrolux sales person. She recieved her Computer Programmer/Analyst diploma in 2003 and is now pursuing Bachelor of Nursing studies at the fourth-year level.
While dark fantasy is her favourite genre to write in, she has tried her hand at both mainstream erotica and contemporary romance and enjoyed those as well. So long as her heroine is a woman who is brave enough to face her darkest fears and bold enough to realize her innermost fantasies, therein lies a tale that Miss Holt aspires to tell.
You can email Amanda at holt_writer@hotmail.com or visit her webpage at www.amandamholt.com
Also writes as Alessandra Gayle
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September 7, 2016
First of all, the prologue for this book is actually the first book! Reaper I: The Beginning Which I must say is slightly strange!
Having read the first book in the series I thought that this book would carry on where the previous one left off. I was wrong! This book starts off several years after the end of the first, and while Sam's 'dark thing' is continuing to do a Dexter and slaughtering evil people, the majority of the book is taken up with Sam discussing working as a bartender and applying to get into a Police training course. This is fairly dull compared with the first, and although this book is marginally longer (1408 kindle locations)(partly due to the fact that it has the first book as a prologue!= 574 kindle locations) because of the change of pace it's actually worse than the first.
Overall this is an okay read for free, but I won't be reading the next installment unless it's free, and even then it will be fairly close to the bottom of the 'to read' pile. 2 out of 5.
Having read the first book in the series I thought that this book would carry on where the previous one left off. I was wrong! This book starts off several years after the end of the first, and while Sam's 'dark thing' is continuing to do a Dexter and slaughtering evil people, the majority of the book is taken up with Sam discussing working as a bartender and applying to get into a Police training course. This is fairly dull compared with the first, and although this book is marginally longer (1408 kindle locations)(partly due to the fact that it has the first book as a prologue!= 574 kindle locations) because of the change of pace it's actually worse than the first.
Overall this is an okay read for free, but I won't be reading the next installment unless it's free, and even then it will be fairly close to the bottom of the 'to read' pile. 2 out of 5.
January 30, 2012
Again, not really all that impressed with this series. It was a freebie from Amazon, and is one of the few freebies that I've gotten that didn't hold my attention, especially since the first part of it is the exact text from the FIRST BOOK used as a prologue before getting into the second story. Will the third book be the same way I wonder? God I hope not, but then again I highly doubt I will go through the effort of reading another book in this series.
November 13, 2016
Really enjoying this series (I read the first book - Beginnings as a separate book) Think they should make a movie out of this, along the lines of Charles Bronson's Deathwish.
Looking forward to the next in the series.
Looking forward to the next in the series.
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