My fondness for vampires and vampire stories should be well known by now and this is a nice addition. It’s first person which is not my favorite but it works because the main character, Henry, is very well-defined. He’s got a one-of-a-kind personality. Then add all the magic and myth to it making it a good story. Really enjoyed this and I see there are three books in the series. He’s dubbed it pulpanormal. It fits and it’s cool!
King Henry Price is fourteen and he loves everything he’s not supposed to–stealing, cursing, and fighting to name a few. One day after his usual hour of detention he comes home to find an enigmatic woman named Ceinwyn Dale sitting in his kitchen, telling his parents lies about a special reform school. What she tells King Henry is different, she tells him he’s a mancer, a Geomancer to be exact, that he’s special, one in million maybe. She sure ain’t a fairy giant and King Henry sure as hell ain’t Harry Potter, but why not? Has to be better than the life he’s already got.
King Henry Price is twenty-two, a recent graduate of the Asylum as an Artificer. With the special ability to create lasting items of the Mancy, he’s spurned the Artificer’s Guild and struck out on his own to found an Artificer workshop looking to do things his way. One night, a vampire baroness claiming she’s named Anne Boleyn walks into his shop, telling King Henry he’s going to help her, and she’s not taking ‘no’ for an answer. King Henry is pretty sure the whole name thing is just a joke, but only pretty sure…
Richard Raley was born and raised in Fresno, California and even still lives there on account of the city being an evil vortex you can’t escape. He grew up on Star Wars, Transformers, Legos, and Everquest–he never escaped them either. His rise to fame/infamy began with “The Foul Mouth and the Fanged Lady”, the first book of THE KING HENRY TAPES, an Urban Fantasy Series that has been described as “Harry Potter meets Pulp Fiction“.
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