Review: The Tradition by Renee Matthews

Title: The Tradition

Author: Renee Matthews

Length: 45 Pages

Category: Paranormal

At a Glance: Even though The Tradition deals in a subject matter that I’m not usually interested in, it is a fine novella and a pretty good read.

Reviewed By: Maryann

Blurb: Zane was raised to see the evil that was in the world. With monsters surrounding their village on all sides, it seemed very simple what the evil was. Until Zane meets Tancred and starts to question everything that being a villager stands for.

Tancred knew from the first moment they met that Zane was his other half. Learning that the man was the kin of the humans that destroyed his family caused him to run. Will Tancred learn there is more to Zane than his last name? Or will he lose the man that is the other half of his soul?

Review: There’s a Line that divides humans from the monsters that was developed after the hundred-years-war. No monster or human was allowed to cross that Line.

The Tradition begins in a place called the Village, where a man named Arthur Vest is its most powerful resident—because he had the money to build it. Zane Vest is Arthur’s son and will be next in line to join the council and take over. Zane, not believing the stories he’s heard and having no interest in being part of the council, goes on a walk to contemplate a few things when he finds himself at Grace Point—the place where some monsters had been burned to death, a sad place owing to the fact that most of the dead are on the Village side of the Line. There, Zane comes across a grieving man. When Zane goes to console the stranger, he finds that who he thought was a man was not a man at all, but a monster. Zane has every right to kill the monster, but he feels sorry for its loss.

Tancred is a demon who has crossed the forbidden Line to mourn in the place where his loved ones were lost. With the depth of hatred he feels for mankind, Tancred should kill Zane then and there, but he knows what would befall him if he were to give in to that desire.

Even though The Tradition deals in a subject matter that I’m not usually interested in, it is a fine novella and a pretty good read. Anyone who enjoys stories involving demons and a human connection might find something to like in this one. I can say that I liked Tancred and the buildup before he and Zane reconnect, and along with some interesting side characters, I thought the concept of demons and humans being connected as each other’s ‘other half’ was a fresh idea.

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