Review: Eclipse of the Warrior by J.L. Hendricks

Published: April 2016 Pages: 73 Synopsis: "Vampires? Fae warriors? Who knew they were real. Somebody must have and they should have let the rest of us know. While coming out of a movie, I followed a group of super-hot guys and ended up regretting it. I was pulled into the fight and I don’t know how I did it, but I killed a vampire! Now I’m running for my life. I’m not supposed to know about their world, being a lowly human and all, but I also shouldn’t have been able to kill a vampire; a ripper is what they call themselves. Now I have a choice. Well not really. A choice means options and mine are bad or worse. I can die or I can become a hybrid fae. Like I said, not much of a choice, one that sucks actually. If I choose to become a fae, I have to help them fight the rippers who are kidnapping humans to take back to their planet. Oh, did I mention that they’re all from another dimension? They change humans into hybrid rippers and use them on the front lines of the battle between their two races. The fae describe them as suicide bombers. Yep. Those are my choices…" Rating: *

A very quick read that seemed simplistic in its structure and description and could have done with being a lot longer and more detailed description.

Very stereotypical of the fantasy genre with a very fantasy based title. The use of the word eclipse reinforced the interdimensional aspect of the book.

I didn't like B'Lana's character and thought she was written very simplistically and appeared to be a stereotypical damsel in distress and the interaction between characters didn't feel natural.

Overall I feel the characters need more work; which may happen naturally throughout the series and the book itself should have been longer and more detailed.

The ending was left on a cliffhanger, which would be picked up with the next book in the series, I would imagine.