The Wild Hunt, Vengeance Moon [Mass Market Paperback]

Jocelin Foxe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1998

An immortal corps of 13 men from various stations of life, the Wild Hunt are bound together in eternal sleep by their past murderous deeds...except when called upon for vengeance. They have until the next full moon to fulfill their mission; failure means agonizing death in flame. But if any one of them finds a love great and pure, his curse will be lifted. Called upon to avenge an aristocrat's wrongful death, the Wild Hunt have sworn to destroy a monarch and his family. Aided by divine power, the Huntsmen will ensnare the royals in a web of deceit, death and destruction. And their plot must succeed.

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About the Author

JOCELIN FOXE is a fresh new voice in fantasy who debuted with The Wild Hunt: Vengeance Moon. She lives in Indiana.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Avon (September 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380799111
• ISBN-13: 978-0380799114
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,391,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, September 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wild Hunt, Vengeance Moon (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was a pleasant surprise. The two women who wrote it under a psuedonymn (see copyright page) did an amazingly credible job of portraying a reasonably accurate view of damaged veterans. A few incidents reminded me of David Drake characters. This is a decent read if you are in the mood for a self contained, and reasonably absorbing, fantasy novel. Some of the characters are a little flat, but many scenes are worth while.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great tale, May 8, 2006

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Silmarillion (Romania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wild Hunt, Vengeance Moon (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a superb, fast-paced, enticing tale. I loved it from the beggining to the end. There are lots of stories of the Wild Hunt, but this is no copycat, and no Irish redundance streams through it. The characters are all interesting and a bit mysterious, and I got swept in their mission against time to fulfill a godly ordained task or face complete destruction.
The only escape possible from the Hunt being a great enough love, to counteract the great hatred that sent the Huntsman there, one could expect at least some dramatic struggles - but the love stories are beautifully simple and the whole book is refreshing. A must read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed, but highly engrossing., August 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Wild Hunt, Vengeance Moon (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a story with LOTS of characters, and not quite enough plot to develop them all thoroughly. But it is pretty gripping; I often found myself wishing my commute were a little longer so I wouldn't have to put the book away!

The flavor of the story is dark--13 men doomed for their past misdeeds--but not full of whiny, brooding anti-heroes. There is a quest-y feeling, but it isn't a world-shattering "We must stop the forces of Evil!" kind of quest. Thank goodness!

Yet I still found myself longing for a little more intricacy. The plot was corkscrewy enough to keep me guessing most of the way through, but the last two chapters were entirely predictable. And in the end, the plot was largely linear: Heroine wishes vengeance, vengeance is granted, with not too many side-plots interfering.

There were lots of characters (13 Huntsmen, the heroine, her archenemy and his 5 relatives, and his main henchman), and of necessity it seems, most of them were flat. I would have preferred the archenemy to have some redeeming quality instead of being unremittingly rotten. The author did a good thing by concentrating on just a few members of the Hunt and relegating the rest to "background color" status, but still I felt the main characters were also rather stock: the tormented leader with a dark past, the disguised prince (several of them, in fact), the selfish glutton prince, and so on. There weren't any characters I felt couldn't be described in a single sentence. There were brief glimpses of potential depth, but this potential was largely unfulfilled. I desperately wanted to know more.

I do look forward to another book about the Hunt, where perhaps we will get to learn more about these characters and their world than was shown here.