Lucian's Revenge (Rise of the Alpha Series) - Helen Dhanoya

A brutal slaying, a broken mind and the rise of true evil.

This novella is the second offering from new author, Helen Dhanoya. It’s a short story prequel to her first novel, Rise of the Alpha. 

This is a quick read and gives some backstory to one of the main villains featured in Rise of the Alpha. 

Lucian is a young man who seems to have everything in life; good job, home and loving family. His life is torn apart one night when his wife and daughter are murdered by rogue werewolves in a seemingly random attack. Supernatural beings are not publicly known to humans and the case remains unsolved by local police, who have no way of finding the perpetrators.

His mind broken, Lucian accepts the help of vampires and takes his revenge on the werewolf community in the most cruel, sickening fashion; his actions giving rise to an evil he could not have foreseen. One which will have far reaching consequences for decades to come.

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Rise of the Alpha (The Rise series) : Helen Dhanoya

The first book from a new author. A good start to a new PNR series.

This is the first book from new author, Helen Dhanoya. It’s the first of a PNR series focusing on a group of wolf shifter packs in the USA. The book contains scenes of moderate violence and some scenes of a sexual nature. 

The story centres on 20 year old Alpha, Dahlia, who is the first female Alpha in their region. Dahlia’s parents were murdered when she was in her teens and she went to live with her grandparents. Following the kidnapping of her grandmother by the same group that murdered her parents, Dahlia is forced to take on her Alpha role much sooner than planned in order to fight this enemy and rescue her grandmother. 

The story has a good level of complexity with enough action and characters to keep it interesting. The writing improves as the book goes on and the author gains confidence. There is some character growth and development through the book. 

I enjoyed this story. As this is the first in the series, I am hopeful that we will see continued improvement in writing and that this will be reflected in character development and on that assumption, I would read the second book.

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