Heart of Scars is a Horror novel by Brian P. Easton. Read summary below.
Heart of Scars (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter) Summary
The Beast has taken just about everything it can from Sylvester Logan James, and for twenty years he has waged his war with silver bullets and a perfect willingness to die. But fighting monsters poses danger beyond death.
Sylvester’s feud has made him a villainous hero whose only remaining virtue is the greater evil of his adversary. Like a wounded animal, he charges headlong toward his own destruction. He contends with not just the ancient werewolf Peter Stubbe, the cannibalistic demon Windigo, and secret cartels, but with his own newfound fear of damnation. Haunted by cryptic nightmares and insatiable guilt, Sylvester’s own resolve will not let him surrender to an easy death. And he may just find that his own demons are his closest allies.
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Heart of Scars (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter) Review
4.0 out of 5 stars Jarringly different from the first book in the series
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2011
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In case I ever wonder why I never read books in a series back-to-back I’ll have to look back no further than Heart of Scars, Brian Easton’s sequel to Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter. For authors, a sequel may be a chance to develop a new voice or a different perspective on his characters or plotline. For the reader who reads the books soon after each is published, re-connecting with the characters may motivate them to overlook a sequel’s flaws.
But for me, who read the books back to back, the differences betwee the two novels was jarring. For one, Autobiography had the real feel of an autobiography. It seemed the main character, Sylvester Logan James, was recalling his early life from a vantage point where he had attained some perspective. Such is not the case with Heart of Scars. In this novel the action again follows James, but it feels more like a filmed-as-it-happened documentary. It lacks the perspective that passing time and introspection provided for the first book. In fact the only introspection James is allowed in Heart of Scars seems to amount to little more than feeling he’s a bad person who has done bad things and is destined for eternal damnation.
What it lacks in introspection, the book makes up for in violence and dreams/visions/hallucinations. The violence is pervasive and described in minute detail. In fact, there are fight scenes that seem to run on for page after page while Easton decribes in detail the sound of flash being ripped, blood gushing from wounds and bones not just snapping, but being shattered. As for the visions or dreams or hallucinations James has as he deals with his apparent possession by a Windigo spirit, they might best be described as a combination of a Timothy Leary acid trip, some of the more lurid parts of Dante’s Inferno and William S. Burroughs most bizzare drug-fueled writing.
Sure, James gets to dispatch werewolves, just as he did in the first book. But this time around much of the book reads more like a spy novel than the intriguing horror novel the first book in the series was. Sure, many of the same characters have returned, but most of them have roles that might charitably be described as walk-on parts.
I was prepared to put Heart of Scars down two-thirds of the way through the book. But I persevered and was rewarded with a story that came to a close in familiar territory. It seemed almost as though Easton used much of the second book to stretch his wings and try new things. Fortunately, from my point of view, he was able to jettison many of the distracting story lines and bring the book’s focus back to James and his quest for redemption as the story wound down.
It seems apparent from the end of Heart of Scars that there will be more to come in the story of Sylvester Logan James. I just hope that Easton will keep the next book more tightly focused on the werewolf hunter.
About Brian P. Easton Author Of Heart of Scars (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter) Book
Brian P. Easton Author Of Heart of Scars (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter) Book grew up among the hardwood bluffs of Southern Illinois, saddled between the banks of the Big Muddy and the Mississippi. His father, a horseman and preacher, taught him at an early age that werewolves were evil characters not heroes. Instead he encouraged his son to read about historic frontiersmen like Lewis Wetzel, or legendary gunmen like Bill Hickok. Small wonder the boy watched Gunsmoke and The Night Stalker with equal enthusiasm. Factor into this equation a 3-ton Royal typewriter given to him by his mother the year he turned 10 and the story just sort of writes itself. Most of his works include various occult and sub-cultural references, drawing both from decades of independent research and his own storied adventures; the majority of which are completely explainable. Easton’s literary influences include the usual suspects: Lovecraft, Howard, Poe and Burroughs, but none have been as impactful as Cormac McCarthy and his masterpiece, Blood Meridian. He is currently engaged in the biggest adventure of his life: raising the son who will one day replace him.
Heart of Scars (Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter) pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : B004CFANQK
- Publisher : Permuted Press; 2nd edition (November 14, 2010)
- Publication date : November 14, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 1068 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 348 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,875 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #21,789 in Horror (Kindle Store)
- #40,595 in Action & Adventure Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #44,193 in Horror Literature & Fiction
- Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
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