Book Review: How Gods Bleed by Shane Porteous

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The werewolfking Gorgoza is dead leaving the west in turmoil. With the king's passing it isonly a matter of time before someone has claimed the western empire forthemselves, leaving the east ripe for invasion. Against the werewolf hordes noeastern kingdom stands a chance for survival. 

But all hope is not yet lost for there may be a way to destroy the monsters ofthe west. Such a chance comes from the most unlikely of sources, Cada Varl theImmortal, the being responsible for the creation of the werewolves. 


Accompanied by 6 of the greatest warriors of the great warrior society ofHelluv Cada Varl journeys into the west in the hopes of saving the east fromutter destruction. Facing impossible odds the group must journey across landsthat will offer nothing to them but misery and death. 
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REVIEW:
First off, Iwill not give this any star rating, because I didn't finish it. I gave How Gods Bleed plenty of time to catchmy attention and draw me in, and gave up after reading 66% of it on my Kindle.
I jumped at thechance to read this after seeing the word werewolf, but quickly found out thatit was more of a Lord Of The Rings/Fantasy/Exploring/Adventure and not theHorror/Blood/Guts/Terror that I usually read. I gave it a chance anyway,knowing I didn't like The Lord Of The Rings books, (I'm sure to never hearthe end of that.) but still found myself trying to drag myself through thisstory, hoping the werewolves would capture my attention. Don't get mecompletely wrong, I like action/fantasy movies, but I can never get into thebooks.
The story lineis basic enough. Cada Varl is an Immortal, and he holds the key to the completedestruction of the werewolf race. He asks for the help from a human society totrack down what he needs to complete this task. What follows is months oftromping through the wilderness, battling stray werewolves, and the mostawkward silent treatment amongst a group of seven people I've ever encountered.
I'm not a hugetalker myself, but this group doesn't have much dialog, and when it does it'smysteriously missing punctuation. Not just a few periods or commas, every lineof dialogue when attributed to a speaker is missing the ending punctuation. I'mnot sure if this was intentional, or an oversight of the author, but none-the-lessbaffling. At one point the book seemed to be missing several pages, and I felt I might have lost some important information there. Along with an overabundance of repetitive sentence starts, I found myself wanting to editthis book more than read it.
The book iscertainly action packed, with whole chapters written showing move by movethrough a battle scene, but it was just too much for me. Every strike betweenopposites was painfully narrated out, not only through every second, but theattacks were broken down into the ten things that were happening in the battlein a nanosecond.
I'd say overallthis book just wasn't meant for me, but with a good editing, there is a crowdof action/fantasy fans out there that would enjoy it. This book has greatpotential if it was executed properly. 

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