In the name of blood

Self-Published

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Description

Geoffrey Robertson, whose real name is Alexey Ris, carries his secrets, and on top of an adventurous spirit also a positive attitude towards meat. Bloody meat. After years with the British special forces, he's getting bored and is looking for something more interesting, more fun.

However, he receives a simple message - they need help at home. Although he hasn't seen his blood relatives for more than a generation, he returns to his native hills and almost dies…

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: thehumaenist

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 21
Views: 16,390

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Community Reviews(2)

Dreamwolf969Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The author really knows to "show, don't tell" in this story about a slightly non, but still mostly human MC who receives a message that something is wrong with his family back in middle Europe and travels home only to be attacked by unknown parties.
I binged the first 25 chapters and was impressed by both the narration and the language. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes a well worded mystery.
Louis BulaongRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The author did a great job introducing this enigma of a main character. We don’t see him yet in action, but the narration and his interactions did a great job in creating the mystery of what he could do, kind of a bit like Jack Reacher, making you feel excited for what might happen next. It also took its time slowly hinting on the supernatural/magical aspects of the universe, though granted I was caught off guard when Robertson suddenly mentioned vampires. Nonetheless, the author did a great job describing the environment Robertson is in. People's behaviors, interactions, simple movement of the objects, were well-described and felt alive, similar to a noire story.
The only improvements I believe the fiction could use is on the sentences that starts with And and But. Nothing wrong with this per se, I’m not really affected by it, and it’s pretty common in many first person stories (specifically YAs). However, some readers are critical of this, and it can be over abused, as seen in some paragraphs where there are like two to three sentences starting with these words. There’s also some minor spacing errors between the ending quotation mark and the first letter (but not that problematic).
Still, these are only minor problems. The story and the narration is still some of the best I have read so far.