A serialized novel, updating sporadically.
Note: Winter’s Mercenary contains some graphic violence and harsh language.
Author: Drew Daniels
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Listed: Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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Tags: action · fae · fantasy · humor · modern supernatural · online novels · romance · urban fantasy · vampires
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Once upon a time, vampires were monsters.
Now, they are beautiful "people" who, much like Romeo and Juliet, frequently find themselves falling in love with their dessert and, once they find themselves in such a predicament, begin to loathe their monster nature where all and sundry are invited to their own [more . . .]
Despite several great reviews on the Web Fiction Guide and umpteen star ratings I very nearly missed out on this one.
I enjoyed the first episode and the next couple had me a bit perplexed as to the type of story I was reading. It is worthwhile sticking with though because [more . . .]
We’ve all met the atypical brooding vampire. Vampires with souls. Vampires tormented by their bloodlust, striving to be better people. Vampires in love with mortals and deathly afraid of killing them, or turning them.
James Damian is not that kind of vampire.
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When I first encountered “Winter’s Mercenary”, I wasn’t too certain I’d be interested being that I understood the title was about a vampire who works for Queen Mab—for those not in the know, she’s got a lot of names in fantasy but is commonly the Faerie Queen of the Winter Court. Since I’m a strong reader of Irish and Celtic [more . . .]
I’ve read about monster vampires, slutty vampires, angsty vampires, indifferent vampires. We’ve all seen vampires hunted down by silly teenage humans in cheerleader dresses and vampires struggling with their bestial nature, always wanting to be human. Friendly neighborhood vampires so clean and piteous they squeak and undead abominations so monstrous no one would empathize with them.