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The Law Unto Herself Chronicles- For Free!

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, March 18th, 2013 at 10:54 PM (3297 Views)
Bare, glowing white feet left patches of frost with each step they took. Her breath was loud and she could hear her heart thundering in her ear as she ran. A branch grabbed the edges of the once fashionable dress she had been wearing, and Eirwin tugged at it.

Silk the color of midnight skies tore, ice spread across the branch, and she pulled free. Tiny, freezing puffs of air spilling forth from her lips caused the air around it to steam. She kept running, her keen ears picking up the sound of foot falls behind her. Trees and heated air became a blur around her as she forced power from the Earth into her limbs to move swiftly and to keep from tiring.

The side effect of that was that her feet left patches of hard frost with each step, giving her pursuers a clear path of where she had been and where she was going. Her glowing hands trembled as she looked around, aware of an owl watching her flight in a tree above. She paused for a moment, and looked around. Frost rippled into pure ice, enveloping blades of summer grass in a fine coating of ice as the temperature dropped even further in the forest.

Did this catch your interest?

I hope it did.

You know, I love Urban Fantasy, stuff like Jim Butcher and the Anita Blake books before it became more erotica than fighting monsters. There's just something fun about a heroine with a big gun and a smart mouth going up against things that could rightfully pound her into the ground. Throw in one bitching muscle car and a dash of heavy metal (Iron Maiden of course) for good measure and The Law Unto Herself Chronicles are born.

Forest is a vampire hero not into brooding and moping about her eternal existence or the mountain of sins she's committed like other "heroic" vampires in popular culture. There's an innocence about her, a simplicity, about a nineteen year old Celtic warrior with a hero complex. A hero complex that has raised the ire and garnered fear amongst vampires and other supernatural creatures.

So, I invite you to check out The Law Unto Herself Chronicles . It's free and you might find something you'll enjoy reading. If you do enjoy it, which I hope you will, I suggest you vote on the story, and better yet "Bookshelf" the story so you can receive updates on Forest and Friends' further adventures!

Vampires Don't Fucking Sparkle.
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  1. Matsu's Avatar
    After I buy the fucking book? Really? e_e
  2. ZidanReign's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Oddmer
    After I buy the fucking book? Really? e_e
    Your buying of the book keeps the Author/Admin, Elf, Alive by giving her monetary gains.

    Is it really that bad to do so?
  3. Matsu's Avatar
    ... No ._.
  4. Elf's Avatar
    Um, did you not notice in the title that it is free?

    This is a new Law Unto Herself story made specifically for the JukePop website. Its free for anyone to read!

    So go take a look, if you like it "Bookshelf" it, and then vote for each new chapter.
  5. Kieran's Avatar
    Signed up - just waiting for the confirmation e-mail.
  6. DezoPenguin's Avatar
    Signed up, read, enjoyed, voted.

    I enjoyed the fact that you spent the time making sure that even though we get only a short glimpse of the world in this introductory chapter, it was very clear that the story takes place in something larger than just the immediate radius of the protagonist's perspective. Too many Urban Fantasy settings tend to be very clearly made up as the author goes along, because they never believed that they'd still be writing by the time the publisher is asking for the fourth book and they have no idea what the hell they're doing. I enjoy the fact that you've implied some measure of underlying stability and story in the first chapter.

    Plus, Forest is fun. She's sassy without being needlessly bitchy (that comes out strongly when talking to William--way, way too many UF writers would). She's badassed without being needlessly cruel. She's quirky enough to be interesting (I never got people who were that into cars, but that just makes it more fun). And she's not a witch (what is it with UF authors insisting that the first-person heroine be something mortal, be it hunter, psychic, or witch, like we readers aren't capable of empathizing with a nonhuman protagonist despite, y'know, the whole genre being about having magic and nonhumans and so on in the modern world?). So you've dodged two of my pet peeves about the whole genre right from the start.

    And I laughed out loud at this bit:

    He lowered his head as he started to open the messenger bag. He said, “The Council condemns such actions. The Council highly suggests that you err on the sides of discretion and caution in your actions.”

    “I’m sodding Law Unto Herself. If the Council can make me, I will,” Forest said with a snort.

    White teeth dazzled in William’s face as he smiled at her. “Should I tell the Council that?”

    “Add a cheeky, off color hand gesture,”

    On the critique side, I would note that there are a number of places where hyphens are omitted in compound words, like in, well, "off-color." I blame Verg for me noticing that. But, y'know, good writing for free!
  7. Elf's Avatar
    EEEE! That makes me absurdly happy!

    I've had this "world" in development since I was like seventeen.

    Still, I'm glad that you've enjoyed and voted! I should have a new chapter up soon, and of course, I'll always ask for another pair of eyes who wants to give it a proof read.