Sylvester Logan James' feud with the Beast has wracked his body and bedeviled his soul, but after twenty-five years it has failed to satisfy his need for vengeance.
When a werewolf delivers a pair of severed heads, Sylvester Logan James finds himself embroiled in an ancient grudge between the First Beast Prince and the seven Wolves who tried to overthrow him.
Baited by a t
Sylvester Logan James' feud with the Beast has wracked his body and bedeviled his soul, but after twenty-five years it has failed to satisfy his need for vengeance.
When a werewolf delivers a pair of severed heads, Sylvester Logan James finds himself embroiled in an ancient grudge between the First Beast Prince and the seven Wolves who tried to overthrow him.
Baited by a trail of dead werewolves and tracking a particularly cunning Wolf with its own agenda, Sylvester journeys across the world–from Belize to Botswana, Morocco to Malta, and Cyprus into the Himalaya on the most important hunt of his life, one that will lead him into the very lair of the Beast and to the werewolf who was once his mother.
Here is one last, unflinching entry in the Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter–a final measure of redemptive violence where every victory is dearly purchased and honor is poisoned by shame. Don’t look away.
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What do I say about a series that I loved so much it felt almost painful to let Sylvester James Logan Go. He's the antihero he's the guy who's not supposed to win an yet he keeps on he fights on he will never stop even when his heart aches and his soul nearly breaks he's the Woodsman and he was epic in this as he was in every one of the series. With that being said some of it seemed over complicated but that's just splitting hairs and even when i thought I would get lost in The maze of the story
What do I say about a series that I loved so much it felt almost painful to let Sylvester James Logan Go. He's the antihero he's the guy who's not supposed to win an yet he keeps on he fights on he will never stop even when his heart aches and his soul nearly breaks he's the Woodsman and he was epic in this as he was in every one of the series. With that being said some of it seemed over complicated but that's just splitting hairs and even when i thought I would get lost in The maze of the story he was the constant he keep on following his blood brothers and trusting his instincts will really miss this series and I think he gets some much deserved rest.
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The third installment of this series was as good as the first two. I struggled to put this down once I began. I'm a little sad that the series has ended,but I was glad to see Sylvester finally seem at some sort of peace.
I was a big fan of the action horror novels Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter and Heart of Scars. The adventures of Sylvester Logan James are some of the most unforgiving, relentless, and dark writing currently in horror today. Make no mistake that these books are not urban fantasy, they are action horror. The monsters are ugly, terrifying, and frightening in equal measure while the psychological decay of our protagonist only makes him more committed during the final leg of his decades-long qu
I was a big fan of the action horror novels Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter and Heart of Scars. The adventures of Sylvester Logan James are some of the most unforgiving, relentless, and dark writing currently in horror today. Make no mistake that these books are not urban fantasy, they are action horror. The monsters are ugly, terrifying, and frightening in equal measure while the psychological decay of our protagonist only makes him more committed during the final leg of his decades-long quest to wipe out werewolfdom.
While grimdark tends to conjure images of spikes on spikes or Chaos Marines, I think this is, indeed, one of the most grim and dark series all around. Enjoyably so. It may not be for everyone due to Sylvester's somewhat offbeat personality, though. He comes across as very much what you'd expect of a Canadian Vietnam War veteran (as in, he went across the border to volunteer for the Vietnam war) living in the 1980s would act like. Reactionary in his opinions with more than his fair share of prejudices as well as a mild chauvinist streak. I didn't mind his occasional off-color opinions but other readers might so consider yourself warned.
The premise is Sylvester is a half-Cheyenne werewolf hunter who lost his mother to a werewolf bite. Trained by his grandfather in ways of tracking them down, he has waged a decades-long war against the Beast. The werewolves in this series are some of the most disgusting, unromantic, unrelentingly evil monsters in fiction. I liken them to the vampires in the Necroscope series. A major theme of the books is, even when faced with a purely "evil" foe, that doesn't necessarily justify paying evil unto them.
Sylvester is utterly ruthless in his pursuit of the destruction of werewolves and he has paid a horrific psychological toll for it. Killing monsters has very much turned Sylvester into a monster himself, even if he maintains just enough sliver of humanity not to become purely evil himself. There are many moments of pure horror where Sylvester does something shocking or nightmarish against the werewolves he faces but he never quite loses our sympathy since the werewolves are that bad. There's one particular moment in the book where Sylvester has torn a man's lower half apart and is interrogating him as he slowly expires.
Yeah, it's that kind of book.
The Lineage finishes up the trilogy and Sylvester's story with a familiar and somewhat unfortunate trope of his longtime girlfriend and love-interest being murdered by the Beast as a lesson to him. Deciding to track down her killer to avenge her, Sylvester catches the scent of the two greatest targets of his career: the Kinslayer and his transformed mother.
The Kinslayer's death, in particular, is important because it has the potential to make a permanent dent in the Beast's ranks. The oldest werewolf in the world, the Kinslayer plays an important role in their immortal culture. Werewolves are a race which needs to regularly cull its ranks, engaging in cannibalism of the dead, in order to remain strong. If the Kinslayer who leads these purges is killed, Sylvester believes the race of werewolves will spread out and weaken to the point of ineffectiveness. As for his mother, this is to simply lay his personal demons at rest.
Brian Easton toys with the idea of werewolves who aren't completely this time around. Even as they all remain horrible monsters but, perhaps, some maintain a semblance of humanity. This doesn't impact Sylvester because he's been committed to the destruction of the werewolf species for decades. It does, however, lead to several uncomfortable moments for the reader where you have to wonder if there are other "good" werewolves he's destroyed in his vengeance-fueled madness. The supporting cast is a bit on the sparse side but when they include an Omega werewolf and a ghost of a long-dead preacher, you have quite a bit going for you.
The action, violence, psychology, characterization, world-building, and horror is all spectacularly done in the book. You understand why Sylvester does the things he does even as you also understand he's long since passed the point where he has more in common with his prey than regular humanity. Even the werewolves acknowledge it as they view him as an embodiment of pure hatred and revenge, something they understand quite well. As mentioned, readers should be prepared for some truly grizzly violence and psychological horror as part of this book.
Sylvester Logan James starts as Jack Bauer in ruthlessness and then goes further as he has no loved one's left to hold him back from the deepest depths of the abyss. Nevertheless, he never stops being an engaging hero nor an interesting protagonist. In short, this is a dark-dark book and readers should be warned even as I found myself loving it regardless.
The Lineage ends the Sylvester Logan Saga definitely, leaving little room for any further sequels. Despite this, I'm satisfied with the ending and I think readers couldn't have asked for a better ending to his story.
After all, as Magneto said, "Peace was never an option."
I'm sad this is the last book. I love this series .. It takes place all over the world with our anti hero chasing werewolves and killing the evil humans he runs into. My favorite werewolf series ever!