Sean H. Robertson

The Cries of Vampira is a fantasy story set in Scotland in the twelfth century, and concerns two clans fighting each other: the Robertsons, who lived at the Dunalastair Castle, Royal vampire homeland Vampira and a secret werewolf horde: the Grey Wolves.

The narration’s style is simple, for instance in each dialog the name of the character is always recalled. This kind of narration reminds of fairy tales for children.

The title could get confusion in the readers because The Cries of Vampira is not a vampire story, where usually vampires bite humans.
In this story many roles are inverted: vampires are good people living among humans and sometimes they have saved humans.

The Cries of Vampira improves through the narration, so hopefully book two could earn more than three stars.… (mehr)

The premise of "The Cries of Vampira" was good. It was different. The execution of the premise left much to be desired sadly.

Sean H. Robertson has a good foundation for a story, a novel even, but it's rough as it stands right now.

For the author, please take this as constructive criticism.

1. Show us, don't tell us. By doing the novella in Third Person/Present tense, there wasn't a lot of room for you to show us. Let the story flow from the viewpoint of the characters, not a narrator.

2. Build up the world more. About all I know is that Gray Wolf is a few miles away. I know nothing of the world or how this sect of vampires have become "peaceful" and I'd like to know more.

3. Give us more back-story. Why are the Vampires and werewolf's such mortal enemies before the story even began?

4. Character description. I know their names. I know one is drunk, one is a peaceful vampire and one is an assassin. That is about all I know.

Basically, it comes down to show us; don't tell us about the characters. Allow some gray. All vampires are not good, as Dove shows, and all Werewolf's are not bad; but we don't know that by your story.

I would still recommend this book to those who like paranormal, but with the knowledge that the story is rough and ends abruptly.

I believe with some work and expanding it to a novel instead of doing "Volumes" that this could be a good read. There have been some good reviews on this book, with constructive criticism that would benefit the author and in the end, benefit the reader.

Disclaimer: Author left a link for a free PDF available that I downloaded for the purpose of reading/rating/reviewing… (mehr)

Such an Epical Book.

The Cries Of Vampira:; the name itself makes you feel the sorrow and pain of a peaceful city. City that all her people are vampire but kind & respectable; the kind I would live among until my death & for sure werewolves are the evil villains –which I totally agree; werewolves are so massy- .
Sean really did a great job with this book. Amazing character that even the smallest detail can make you touch their souls, sometimes I wished if he change something but as I read more; I feel he did it so right. I would not change a thing.
I would love to say;

-Dove; I did not expected it from you, your name made me feel that you are an angel but you turned to be an angelic devil.

-This part really made the teares fall ike a river;

"Kristin begins to realize that the lair cave has been emptied of Grey Wolves. She’s trapped in a ten-foot pit covered by large metal beams. As nasty black rats begin to squeak as they crawl closer towards her, trying to nip at her feet, for the first time in her young life, she feels totally helpless, mentally broken, and uncharacteristi¬cally terrified. Princess Kristin sheds tears of fright for the first time ever as she screams out in the most heart-wrenching cry of her life, “Help me! Someone, please help me!”"

I belive it's so hard to break someone like her; she is my favorite character so far.

Over sll the story needed to be a BIG novel. I must admit it has not been the flawless but I can live with that.

The Cries of Vampira is a book either to love or hate and I chose to love.

I can't wait for part 2...

P.S. Vampira is my vampire's name...… (mehr)