Reviewed by Cindy
TITLE: Midnight at Ravenbrook
AUTHOR: Sam Burns and W.M. Fawkes
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 67 Pages
RELEASE DATE: December 5, 2024
BLURB:
Nothing in this world means more to Knox than saving his baby sister from the mess she’s slipped into. Fresh out of prison and staring down her five-figure debt, Knox knows he has to do whatever it takes to keep her safe—and make up for the years he left her alone.
One more job.
One last haul.
Then, they’re getting the hell out of dodge and he’ll see his sister sober again.
But when he hits an old mansion, Knox gets more than he bargained for. The creatures inside are anything but human, and when the job takes a devastating turn, pale Emmanuel offers Knox everything he’s been fighting for.
Knox has always been okay with a little bloodshed, but Emmanuel’s demands push him to his limits . . . and offer him an alluring new gift: eternity.
Midnight at Ravenbrook is an extra-spicy novella featuring one sharp-edged ex-con, a vampire starving for more than blood, and a battle for control that promises both of them everything they never knew they needed. It was originally published on our Patreon page.
REVIEW:
This story get’s very interesting, very quickly.
Knox’s character is easy to understand. His motivation is clear and you can’t help but feel sorry for him. His life has never been easy and it he feels like he never really had a chance to make a better life for himself or his sister.
Emmanuel is easy to relate to. Having been a prisoner in his home his whole life, Knox’s arrival is shocking and liberating at the same time.
This is a very short story so I have to be careful not to spoil anything. What I will say is that I’m very disappointed that the authors didn’t take the opportunity they afforded themselves to expand on this story and really put some meat on it’s bones.
Its a full story I suppose but it has the potential to be so much more. This feels like an appetizer that just leaves you hungry for a full 6 course dinner.
As always there is fantastic character development and wonderful world building and I think that’s why I was left wanting for so much more. The sex is definitely at the top of the heat scale and for once I’m not complaining because it works with the whole of the story without taking it over.
Sam Burns and W.M. Fawkes have never let me down story wise. They are the perfect duo, especially when it comes to certain supernatural elements. The only reason it’s getting a 4 instead of a 5 is because I truly think that making this such a short story is really doing the little novel such a disservice. By making it so short, they are really lessening the impact of the main discoveries that happen and the potential of where it could go. Given the time for anticipation to build and tensions to rise, this book could have been explosive.
If they ever decide to expand on it, I will be the first one in line to buy it and read it.
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