Ebook Rising Frenzy Brandon Witt Books

Product details Paperback 364 pages Publisher Dreamspinner Press, LLC; 2nd edition (June 2, 2015) Language English ISBN-10 1632164450

Rising Frenzy Brandon Witt Books Reviews

• Brandon Witt creates a world in his Men of Myth series that appeals to readers like me greatly. Like the Beings series by F. Cooper and the End Street Detective Agency books by Amber Kell and RJ Scott, Witt’s world posits the unseen presence of paranormal beings, interacting with humans at varying degrees of awareness.
  
  Witt promises that the Men of Myth series will continue; but the immediate saga of Brett Wright, mer-demon, and Finn de Morisco, warlock, wends its way through the second substantial volume of the trio. The third book is equally hefty. This is a series of epic scale.
  
  Witt is not a poetic writer, but he is a good story-teller, and the gripping narrative swept me along from the beginning of Rising Frenzy, where we reacquaint ourselves with Brett, now fully engaged with the newly discovered oceanic family he discovered in the previous book Submerging Inferno (review here). As Brett copes with his new life, he continues to grieve his loss of Finn, but embraces the undersea world in which he finally feels at home. He discovers his father, Therin, and finds a new friend in Lelas, who becomes the stand-in for Sonia, his best human friend, who met a horrific fate in Submerging Inferno.
  
  Finn, on the other hand, is wallowing in loss. Even his boisterous, loving family can’t pull him out of his grief over Brett’s abandonment. As he retreats from his family and sinks into the sordid goings-on of The Square—a sort of perverted Diagon Alley lying hidden in San Diego—Finn happens upon Schwint, a happy-go-lucky fairy. Schwint is a favorite character of mine in this book, as he becomes Finn’s ally and lover.
  
  While most of the book is written from Brett and Finn’s perspectives, Sonia Liu reappears in an important secondary role, a third point of view that is slightly forced but ultimately essential. Sonia is a difficult character for me; the loving, flirtatious Chinese American heiress is transformed into a dazzling killer, a guiltless vampire seething with anger at her violent creation. The somewhat arbitrary cliffhanger at the end of volume two has her meeting Gwala, the ancient, waiflike monster who rules the Vampire Cathedral and who holds the strings of all our friends’ destinies.
  
  Thus Rising Frenzy feels somewhat like a very long preamble to Clashing Tempest and the two books should really be read together for continuity. It’s a big commitment, but worth it for the fun of Brandon Witt’s vivid imagination.
  
  The other books in the Men of Myth series are Submerging Inferno (book one) and Clashing Tempest (book three).
  This was originally reviewed in All About Romance [...]
• Where I thought that book #1, Submerging Inferno, was a solid book, albeit a bit more New Adult, Rising Frenzy was anything but. This is a grown ups book.
  
  I'm not always good with series, my personality is such that I am easily bored. Even though I love paranormal writing for a book within a series to get 5 stars it has to meet the following criteria -
  
  1) Characters who I am totally, utterly and thoroughly invested in because they are going to be taking me on a journey and I need to be on board with them to keep going. I also need great secondary characters because they help stop a series from going stale - Check
  
  2) Great world building without boring the crap out of me. I want to be in awe of where I am, contemporary or not - Check
  
  3) Once again, in order for me not to get bored easily, I need to see that the series is going somewhere really interesting - Check
  
  4) I want good, strong, passionate writing. I want to fall in love, I want to hate people, I want to be uncertain exactly what might be going to happen so I can freak out along the way - Check
  
  5) I need the books to get better as they progress. Book #1 does have to have a hook, but from there they darn well better grab me and drag me into the next book - Check
  
  6) I want them to make me forget I have people in my life who actually want to talk to me and also about 10 other ARC's sitting on my because all I can think about is getting to the end of this series because nothing else freaking matters! - Check
  
  There are other criteria, but these will do as The Men of Myth series meets these and then some. I now love Schwint and I still like Brett a real lot. And...Finn. They make me feel like I am a teenager wanting to see my favourite couple get together, but not sure that will happen. I currently feel like team Adrian in a grown up Vampire Academy, that kind of sucks. I love Schwint, I'm interested in Tribe Chromis - I want to know more about the mer. The flipping Vampire Cathedral, pfftt. The fairy world and moon party was beyond fabulous - I want to eat mushrooms. I love the world on land and like the world under the ocean, although I can't see myself lasting there. Yes, I picture that.
  
  I love Finn de Morisco (every time he is on page I am gone, yes, I know he is a fictional character), and his lovely family, and I am in love with Lelas as well.
  
  I want to know what the heck is going to happen next!!
• This second book, the sequel to Submerging Inferno, is awesome! The story develops Finn's life and the world of magic and The Square on land, while simultaneously showing Brett's new life under the ocean -- in beautiful vivid details. The new characters are great! I loved Schwint! And Lelas, and Wrell, and all the wonderful others. The ending of this one really ups the tension and conflicts and I can't wait to see what happens in book 3!
• FIrst off i was impressed with both of the books in this series and the length of the book a true novel length that is rare in this genre. The story line is well thought out and it has a great plot. Here are many characters and it all works well to form a remarkable story. It has left me wanting more.
• Brandon has a,wonderful second book in the men of myth series. This installment follows Finn and Brett on their journey of discovering who they are without each other and who they might become on their own. Can't wait for the third installment.
• This was a great sequel. Full of character development, surprises, and hot sizzling sex scenes. I'm eager for book three.