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Blood Moon Fever Kindle Edition

by Connal Bain (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
Crime ... Corruption ... Werewolves. Just another day in LA.

David Goodwin isn't having a good month. Sent on a manhunt after escaped felon 'Hard Time Jake' Griffon, he finds he has bitten off more than he can chew as he moves from the wooded Northern California wilderness to the mean streets of LA in pursuit of a man who has become something beyond human.

During Griffon's bloody prison break, something happened in the woods of the Modoc Forest. Something inhuman. Something evil. Something terrifying.

Now, as the full moon prepares to rise over the City of Angels, Goodwin must piece together elements of a puzzle involving a fugitive on the run, a crooked lawyer, a violent drug cartel, and a string of bloody corpses left in the wake of an ancient terror now awake and hungry for fresh carnage.

Combining the hard-boiled realism of Jim Thompson with the gritty horror of Jack Ketchum and Clive Barker, Bain introduces a new brand of horror noir.

Savagely dark and wildly inventive, Blood Moon Fever introduces a powerful new voice to horror and crime fiction. Winner of the 2018 Pinnacle Book Award.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GGZMXJ8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 14, 2018
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.8 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 159 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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Connal Bain

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Pinnacle Award winning novelist Connal Bain lives a peripatetic life in the Western United States. He has worked as a journalist, long-haul truck driver, chef, labor organizer, and bookstore clerk, and university lecturer. Traveling from job to job around the great American West has provided him the opportunity to spend much of his free time writing, often gathering story and character ideas from his experiences on the road.

Originally from a Boston suburb, Bain has firm roots in the right kind of clam chowder, the Bruins and Sox, and the Boston indie music scene. His time out West has broadened his horizons to border culture, fish tacos and the Padres.

An avid reader from an early age, he became a horror and mystery enthusiast upon discovering a treasure trove of paperback originals in his parents’ basement in junior high school, beginning with John D. MacDonald and Manley Wade Wellman and working up through King, Herbert, and the late great Jim Thompson.

His fascination with all things dark and creepy grew as he expanded his tastes to the classics and the pulps, always finding pleasure in the genre at hand. This brought him a great respect for the printed word, regardless of the merits of canonical “literary” value. Always in search of a tale well told, he began writing his own detective and supernatural horror stories in high school, and has been writing ever since.

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  • Karen Ingalls
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    This story has monsters, gruesome killings, tribal issues, and good versus evil. It kept my attention, and the legend of what created such a monster captivated me. However, editing and better structure or formatting is needed. There were many spelling errors and sentence structure issues. Despite these factors, I did enjoy the book.
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  • Horror_Lover
    5.0 out of 5 stars Action-Packed Werewolf Story
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Werewolves have been a favorite of mine since childhood, but I’m often disappointed by the way they’re portrayed in novels. Fortunately, Connal Bain avoided the cliche of making them nothing more than beasts. Instead, they’re written as the compelling creatures they’ve always been meant to be.

    In Blood Moon Fever, werewolves are driven not only by their animalistic urges but also their personal desires and vendettas. This is always a welcome approach that makes these creatures seem more realistic and easier to root for (or against). Bain also seamlessly weaved in a solid police procedural story (or, more accurately in this case, an FBI procedural).

    Combining werewolves, Native American legends, a group of prison escapees, a couple of money-hungry citizens, some interdepartmental bickering, and well-executed, highly-detailed action scenes into one entertaining book is a major accomplishment. All of this is made even more impressive by knowing that this is Bain’s debut novel.

    I loved the way the story ended. It’s resolved enough to be a standalone novel, but it also left the door open just wide enough to invite a sequel.

    I’d love to see Bain’s take on other classic monsters and would definitely read a sequel to Blood Moon Fever if he decides to release one.

    Highly recommended for werewolf, horror, and police procedural fans who want good action, a decent amount of gore, and a storyline that would have been intriguing even without the werewolves.
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  • TRVLR
    3.0 out of 5 stars A good read that feels unfinished
    Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018
    Format: Kindle
    Blood Moon Fever by Connal Bain is an action-packed and fresh approach to the lycanthrope story genre.

    Here Mr. Bain gives the reader a story that flows well, he provides us with believable characters, and for once we get a story about werewolves with a link to Native American mythology that feels more realistic, more plausible and gives an effective backstory that sets this story a world-apart from the whole Beauty and the Beast plot-line that inundates so many stories with paranormal topics. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the whole paranormal-romance genre but it’s also nice to read something that isn’t entrenched in that genre that still deals with this particular paranormal entity.

    Jake Griffon isn’t a good guy, not at all. He is an inmate at the Redwood State Penitentiary, doing hard time for theft and murder. But his days are numbered because the cartel he stole diamonds from has put a contract out on him and prison won’t stop them from getting to him. In there, he’s a sitting duck!

    In walks attorney Rachel Lewis, a tough woman who doesn’t exactly live by the law herself and who is facing potential disbarment for her own activities. She offers Jake a way out of his predicament...for a price.

    Neither of them could predict how the events that would unfold the night of the prison breakout as the blood moon rose into the sky would change both of their lives forever; setting set their life paths and that of an FBI Special Agent on an unexpected trajectory. So begins our story....and that is as much as I will give away.

    I enjoyed the pace of Blood Moon Fever, Mr. Bain has a nice natural flow to his writing and I found the dialogue between characters to be particularly believable. Conversations flowed well and felt natural. And while I have read a comment from another reviewer who did not particularly like “the language” in this story, I found it to be appropriate and believable for these characters. Jake, Rachel, FBI Special Agents and Cartel members aren’t Pollyanna’s; they live and breathe the criminal element. They simply would not have PG or PG-13 language. Having these characters speak in a manner that is more genuine to their circumstances simply feels more believable.

    I’ve said some good things about this story right? You may be wondering why I only rated it at 3 out of 5 stars. Well here’s why...it’s not finished. I wish it was, had it been I would have rated it higher.

    Perhaps Mr. Bain intends to do another story to follow this up. Okay, I can buy that and run with that possibility but even so, this book remains unfinished.

    When this story ended I was left feeling that it was only about three quarters of the way through the story arc; it ends far too abruptly even with the epilogue which is extremely short. The best way I can describe it is this...it felt as if I were watching a movie on television (which this probably would do well as)....and the movie ended at a commercial with 20 minutes left to go. We have the climax of the story and it ends. There’s no resolution or tie-up. To this reader if felt as though there was an entire chapter missing before the very short epilogue, or perhaps the epilogue needed to be longer and refer back to the story in contemplation of what had happened and how that particular character ended up where he was. I’m not sure, that would be up to the author of course....but more needed to be written.

    Along with that observation there are some editing and formatting issues that need to be addressed. These are simple things such as: misspelling, paragraph and eBook formatting inconsistencies, and chapter formatting. It’s perfectly fine to break a story into sections, but each section shouldn’t begin with Chapter 1. That would make the Table of Contents confusing. Oh and speaking of the Table of Contents, there wasn’t one of those either and there should be. Formatting issues like these prevent the story from flowing as well as it should and present the story in a less than professional light. This is why I urge so many self-published authors to use a professional editor and book formatter. These professionals know what to look for and what to help correct for the author so someone like me won’t be pointing them out in a review. Although I will say, I did not weigh these when it came to my star rating of the story itself...just in my opinion of the entire finished product.

    So, as always I will ask myself “would I recommend this book”? Yes, I would.

    I would like to see the author re think the abruptness of the ending or set it up for a follow-up but I do think it was an interesting read that fits well into the thriller genre. It’s a quick read (took me about three hours) that does keep you reading and I never felt I had to force myself through any slow spots. Those are all good things that would prompt me to say “read it”. So, read it....and tell me what you think of it as well.
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  • Thomas W. Wolf
    5.0 out of 5 stars Werewolves
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2019
    Format: Kindle
    Good book about werewolves, author knocked it out of the ball park.very good effort for first time author, but it
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  • Paula Kesler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2019
    Format: Kindle
    Short but very sweet, in the bloodiest and brilliant way. My arm is numb from reading all night. Thank you!
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