More Addams than Gothic Vampire

Not a Trad Vlad Gothic Vampire
The Disallowed

 

The Disallowed

A Story of Modern Vampires

by Owen Jones

 

More Addams Family than Trad Vlad Gothic Vampire

 

Review by Barry Boy

The DisallowedA story of modern vampiresNot trad vladmodern day vampiresFive Star review from Amazon

 

 

I can virtually guarantee that you have never read a book that purports to be about vampires like this one before! This story is not your Trad Vlad Gothic vampire tale of old by any means!

The Disallowed by Owen Jones is billed as ‘The Story of a Contemporary Vampire Family’ and as such bears more of a relationship with the Addams Family than any Hammer House of Horror film from the Sixties or Seventies.

Heng Lee, the main character in the book, is a goatherd, who suffers catastrophic organ failure over a short period of time while going about his life and work in the mountains where he has a farm and lives with his family: a wife and two teenage children.

Heng is expected to die, because they do not have enough money to pay for proper hospital treatment, which in  any case is a long way off. However, the local Shaman comes up with an idea that might save his life.

The cure is radical and comical, but it does seem to work, although it changes Heng completely and in such a way, that others want to be like him. This is the charming and often humorous story of Heng Lee – a modern vampire, his contemporary vampire family and the whole community where they live.

Do modern vampires really exist? You may wish that you could join Heng and his community too after reading this story, Jones makes it sound almost idyllic!

If you like a bit of humour and something new, a different twist on the old Gothic vampire story, you should give The Disallowed a go, I am sure that you will not regret it!

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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