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Rabbit Chasing Beth Rider (2010)

by Ellen C. Maze(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0011829427 (ISBN13: 2940011829420)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Run Rabbit Books

series

Rabbit

review 1: Beth Rider, an ordinary Christian woman of extraordinary faith, writes vampire novels. Successful ones. So successful, in fact, that the Rakum, a race of wraiths/vampires, are now reading them and turning toward God. And a certain Rakum Elder can’t allow that.Ellen Maze has created a new, wholly original kind of vampire story. Her world is intricate and vivid, with a history that stretches back thousands of years (I love how the Old Testament is woven into the plot). It is populated by the ancient Rakum, Rabbits (humans who have been marked, in a particularly frightening way, by Rakum), Cows (a demeaning but accurate term for the humans labeled as such), Elders and brethren, masters and their pups.The book will hook you in the prologue: A Rakum hunts a Rabbit named Schaf... morefer and toys with him--as a cat toys with a mouse before killing it. At this point you don’t know who Schaffer is or how he’s been marked as a Rabbit, but you feel his terror and sense that when he says he’s “in hell,” he’s right. You won’t want to put the book down.And if you’re wondering whether vampire novels and a Christian worldview are compatible, the answer, with this book at least, is a big yes.
review 2: I had the pleasure of receiving a copy of this book for review and must say that I am very glad that I did. While normally I shy away from books with a religious theme, I decided to give this one a shot, based on others' reviews of it. Immediately, the book draws you in with an intriguing interaction between the main character, Beth Rider, and an unknown assailant. It continues to keep you on the edge of your seat, as you follow Beth through horrendous (and some, not so bad) dealings with beings unlike herself yet more along the lines of the characters in her own novels. As an author, she has a great imagination and, with religion at her side, she finds a way to keep her inner peace intact. While being exposed to situations in which most would be frightened nigh unto death or in complete awe, she pushes forward. Her faith helped her through it all. (Keep in mind, that while religion plays a large role, it wasn't overpowering.)Maze keeps the reader turning the pages, always wanting to know what happens next. There was a few times in which I thought I knew what was coming next, only to be thrown another curve ball. There was no way to even guess how it would end and I found myself quite surprised. This book had everything necessary for the makings of a great novel and it definitely delivered. Ellen Maze is an author worth reading and I look forward to more of her books. less

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