Book
Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: Wolf Tears
Subtitle: Horror of the
Jester
Author: Koos Verkaik
Genre: Young Adult
Part of a series? No
Order in series:
Best read after earlier
books in series?
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57987774-wolf-tears
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 5/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
This is a supernatural story. The principal
characters in the book were born in the 15th century and ingested
the elixir of life. They started as three friends, but now two of them need to
hide from the third as he wishes to exploit them. An action-packed page-turner
of a book follows.
What
I liked about the book:
It was action-packed and full of suspense.
What
I didn’t like about the book:
There was nothing to dislike about the book.
My
favourite bits in the book:
I enjoyed the book in its entirety.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
There were none.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
This author has written many novels for young
adults. Judging by this book, they would be well-worth a read.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This book reminds me of the style of some
early Dutch novels I’ve read many years ago.
Recommendation:
In
summary, I would recommend this book for the following readers:
|
Children |
No |
|
Young
Adult |
Yes |
|
Adult |
Yes |
If
you like action-packed suspenseful novels with a
supernatural twist, this book may be the book for you.
I’m
certainly looking forward to reading more by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
A mesmerizing supernatural tale of immortality,
jealousy and tortured love, a hunger for blood and the appearance of a scary
jester…
Wolf Tears is the story of Paul Brand, who
comes to the incredible realization that he has been reinventing himself for
centuries in order to keep the knowledge of his immortality a secret, even from
himself.
Brand, a talented musician, is befriended by
Francis Beck, a world-famous composer who possesses a unique psychic power to
make his audience see, think and feel whatever he wishes through the music he
plays. Terrifying visions, rapturous love, his listeners are his unwitting
pawns.
When Beck is apparently killed in an
automobile accident, Brand opens an envelope left for him by Beck and finds
inside a photo of the two men taken in 1932 – long before Brand thought he was
even born.
This is a tale of jealousy. A terrible clash
over a beautiful woman, that leads three friends, Brand, Beck and Miethe, to an
alchemist’s lair in the woods of Germany, where they are given the gift of
almost eternal youth.
Koos Verkaik is a master in his genre (magic,
mystery and adventure) and one of the hardest working authors of this time. He
now he has over sixty titles in publication. If you like Wolf Tears read his
imposing novel All-Father.
About
the Author:
Koos
Verkaik started to write at the age of 7, published his first work (comics, 3
pages each week in a magazine) at the age of 16, his first novel was published
at the age of 18.
Over
60 different titles are published now, both in The Netherlands and the USA.
Koos
is a master of magic, adventure and mystery, writes many urban fantasy books
and children's books.
The
publisher for his novels is RIGHTER'S MILL PRESS in Princeton, USA. For film:
Three Corners Entertainment, USA.
His
new series for children, ALEX AND THE WOLPERTINGER, is published internationally
and there will be at least 30 different titles.
Outer
Banks Publishing Group, USA, publishes the series of children's books Alex and
the Wolpertinger and Saladin the Wonder Horse.
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