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An Unfinished, Brilliant Work
It's hard for me to put down my feelings about this novel.I first read it fifteen years ago when I was still in high school, and I promised myself someday I'd track down the other volumes in the trilogy and finish the story.This summer I ordered the non-anthology, non-Star Wars novels written by Michael Reeves from Amazon.This novel was amazing enough that I wanted to know what happened fourteen years later, AND it made me want read what else Reeves has done.

What did I remember about "The Burning Realm" that stuck with for over a decade?A tenth order orange magic starbust called the Devastator.Triskendelka, Lady of Bats.The monstrosities living in fragement of Xoth.The fate of a Cloakfighter.That I really wanted to know what happened before and after this novel.

"The Shattered World," is the first novel in the series, and it exceeded my expectations.It was better than "The Burning Realm," and written in the same style too.I've never found another fantasy work that captures an ambiance similar to what the this novel and it's predecessor evokes, in part because Reeves uses obscure words that *sound* like they belong in a fantasy novel.Editors of today would probably cut them, but they worked for me.Totally added to the story experiences.

Despite my search, and my hopes, there is no sequel.The ending leaves off with a holocaust on the horizon.No solution has been found for the Runestones of the World Fragments decaying in magic power.I'm not giving anything away, as this is basically the impetus for the original meeting of the characters in "The Shattered Realm."The original plot.I want to know how this story ends, and I don't think I ever will.

The plot was five stars, pacing is excellent.Characterization is subsumed in part by the action, but it is there.Parts of me want to give this novel a one star because I absolutely hate that I'll never know what happens in the never written final book.It's got four because I realize waiting years hoping to finish this story means I liked it.

As for whether or not you should buy it?It is brilliant fantasy action.It is unfinished.You've been warned.

Lovers Parted by Demons
The Burning Realm (1988) is the second Fantasy novel in The Shattered World series.In the previous volume, Pandrogas has found the Necromancer and learned both his true history and his source of magic.While saving Pandrogas and Amber, Beorn has shapechanged too long and lost himself to his bear persona.Pandrogas and Amber take Beorn's bear-form to Tamboriyon and set him free in the forest.They agree to part for a commonyear, Pandrogas to return to Darkhaven to guide the new students of necromancy and Amber to stay on Tamboriyon to learn how to use her own powers.

In this novel, the commonyear has passed and both Pandrogas and Amber prepare for their rendezvous.Pandrogas takes ship from Darkhaven, but is intercepted by Trisandela, the Lady of Bats.Amber has obtained the rank of Conjuress in the Taggyn Saer system and is uncertain about her feelings for Pandrogas, but returns to the meeting place.When she arrives, Pandrogas is not there and does not come that day.After some soul searching, Amber leaves Tamboriyon to hunt for him.

Meanwhile, Kan Konar, cloakfighter from Typor's Fist, has escaped from the web of Zhormallion, the Spider Lord, on Xoth.After reaching the surface, he cannot find his cloak (which has been claimed by Tahrynyar) but does find a damaged dragonship, a chase boat from one of the huge hunting ships.He hears someone, or something, coming and hides within the boat, which is hurled into the Abyss by a cacodemon.After a while, he comes out and looks around, only to find the Lady of the Bats in the boat with him.He learns that she has eased his escape after he has freed himself from the web.Apparently she is just playing Chton politics.

Mirren, a werewolf and thief, has survived the sinking of a ship from the tsunami caused by a lesser fragment plunging into the Ythan Ocean on Rhynne. She washes ashore on a small island with an abandoned wizard's tower, former home of Stonebrow, deceased leader of the Circle.She finds seawater stains, fish, and damp everywhere from the tsunami, but also some dry food and clothing.She gathers some money and jewelry and convinces a pair of would-be plunderers to take her to the mainland.

Kyra is an assassin on Zarhenna who bungles an assignment.When Mirren applies to be an assassin, Kyra is assigned as her instructor.Since this is a demotion in status, Kyra is determined to make Mirren into a successful assassin.However, Mirren also bungles her first assignment and flees from the Guild With No Name into the labyrinth of Chton tunnels within the fragment.Kyra is given an final assignment, find and kill Mirren or never come back.

This novel is a mystery quest with several storylines.Most are soon intertwined with the Lady of Bats in her effort to dominate the Chtons.However, Trisandela's plan encounters a setback as a third party joins the competition for Chton leadership.

Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone else who enjoys high sorcery and low politics, with a smidgen of romance.

-Arthur W. Jordin

Review of "The Burning Realm"
In this sequel to "The Shattered World", Reaves once again takes us back to a world literally torn apart, whose fragments have been set in a precarious, decaying orbit by the efforts of long-dead sorcerers.One sorcerer, Pangrogas, seeks to master the art of Necromancy to save these fragments, while becoming embroiled in the plots of the Chthons - ancient demonic enemies of Mankind.

This sequel doesn't live up to the high standards set forth in the original, with somewhat underdeveloped and predictable characters, but Reaves still spins a good yarn.I recommend it for most fantasy or sword-and-sorcery fans. ... Read more

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Sentenced for a crime he didn't commit, Dain Maro has been incarcerated in the Omega Cage--a prison located on an isolated planet and housing the scum of the galaxy.

Escape was supposed to be impossible, but the Omega Cage has never had to contain the likes of Dain Maro before. ... Read more

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Perry takes supporting Characters and makes them Shine!
In Perry's amazingly good MATADOR TRILOGY we got to meet Juete a genetically created Albino Beauty designed to be a sex toy of the rich who ultimatly became the bittersweet lover of Emile Khadaji. We also briefly see Dain Maro as a Black Market operative Khadaji does business with, less than a page is used to describe their encounter but you are left feeling that with Dain Maro there is much more to him than meets the eye.
The Omega Cage is a vehicle Perry uses to re-introduce both Juete and Maro in their own gripping adventure. A Hellish prison called the Omega Cage ends up becoming Maro's new home after a betrayal from within the Crime Guild he belongs to, Black Sun.
Once there he encounters Juete who is languishing as the cruel warden's sex slave and....well read the book for yourself. The plot is pure Perry and what could be better?

A decent companion to the Matador series
It's been some years since I read this one, but it seems a shame to leave a good book with no reviews, so please forgive any errors of memory:

The Omega Cage is the story of the prison escape alluded to in Perry's morerecent novel, Brother Death.It follows a prisoner in the Confed's mostsecure prison (called, not surprisingly, the Omega Cage).With the help ofthe warden's albino sex slave, he escapes the prison and makes his way offplanet using some interesting alien technology.

The pace of the novel isreasonably fast, but because of the prison setting, much of the action isnot as brisk as most of Perry's novels. ... Read more

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Making Waves
This book was a very pleasant suprise for me. I am not going to rave about it and compare it to Dune or other science fiction classics, but if you are looking for a decent underwater adventure with oodles of good ideas and excellent character development then snatch up a copy of DOME-(if you can find one).The plot moves very quickly and their is enough action to easily sustain this novel-and their are a lot of books out there I have spent more money on and enjoyed less-well worth the price of admission. ... Read more

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Best Horror Novel of 1995
Simply, the novel had everything I want in an excellent novel.Good pacing, real characters with flaws, excellent transitions, dark humor, original plot with internal logic that isn't stupid, and an ending that wrapped everything up.

The first two chapters may be rough, as the detective-hero is very cynical and despairing.It gets better.

The plot -- murders are occuring whereby people are killed like vampires should be.A clove of garlic in their mouth and a wooden stake shoved through their beating hearts.Is this really the work of a demented serial killer, or is something more sinister going on?

Normally I enjoy fantasy novels the more than horror, (and the novel does deserve the classification of horror) but Night Hunter just grabbed me and wouldn't let me go.

I consider this a masterpiece of horror, suspense and writing, and recommend you buy it.

Vampires in La-La Land, with a twist
The Night Hunter is the second novel in a series of urban fantasies based on different magic traditions, but with a twist.Moreover, these stories are all hard-boiled mysteries.This novel invokes the tradition of life-stealing vampires.

Jake Hull is a detective in the LAPD who is assigned a case where the victim has been stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake.Immediately the newspapers start crying "vampire hunter".Jake co-opts a younger uniformed policeman to assist when the pressure comes down to catch themurderer before the media goes bonkers.When the "vampire hunter" strikes again, Jake also co-opts a female Medical Examiner to help.

This novel plays heavily on the Hollywood tradition of vampire movies, but ultimately strikes out on its own.Note the references to the Midnight Star and Ed Thayer from Street Magic.

Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone who enjoys a good horror story that acknowledges the Hollywood tradition without being confined by it.

one of my favorite books
NIGHT HUNTER is one of the rare books that I read beginning to end in a short amount of time. I finished it in just two days, and it only took two days because I got distracted with something else. Anyway, I really enjoyed this book. Michael Reaves did an excellent job making Det. Jake Hull feel like a real character who was really burned out by his job. The story moved at a nice pace and was a constant page-turner. I couldn't wait to find out what happened next. Several interesting characters, some suspenseful scenes, a very surprising (and cool) explanation for everything, and an exciting climax (which could have been just a bit longer) made for one of the more exciting books I've read in a recent years. I'd love to see a film version. A+

Hunt for a better book
This one really drags.The characters are all stereotypes moving through a milieu of Los Angeles street life that reads as if it were lifted straight from movies about Los Angeles street life.All of this could beforgiven if it moved quickly and was done with style.However, there wastoo much uninteresting characterization and hardly any action at all. ... Read more

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Elves in San Francisco, with a twist
Street Magic is the first novel in a series of urban fantasies based on different magic traditions, but with a twist.Moreover, these stories are all hard-boiled mysteries.This novel invokes the tradition of Tir Nan Og, the land of the Irish Faery.

Scott Russell is an unemployed detective agency operative in San Francisco who has been hired by an old college chum, Ed Thayer, to find his runaway son, Danny.however, Danny has absolutely no desire to return to his father;he only wants who wants to go home to Fairyland.His wishes seem to be coming true when he meets a young woman, Robin, with pointed ears and the ability to use glamour to conceal or disguise herself and others.

Robin is a scatterling, a drifter from Tir Nan Og, who moves in and out of the human's world as the mood strikes her.However, she and her fellow scatterlings can no longer cross back to Tir Nan Og without the assistance of a Full Blooded Sidhe.When Danny sees through her glamour, she begins to think that he is a Full Blooded changling, a Keymaster, and her ticket home if only he can remember how to open the gallitrap.

Scott is assisted in the case by Liz Gallegher, a reporter on the Midnight Star, who is tired of making up crazy articles and wants to properly investigate a real story for a change.They are greatly helped in their efforts by a fantasy novel, The City Under the Hill, which tells of the restrictions placed on the gallitraps between Tir Nan Og and the world of humans.

Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone who enjoys a good fairy tale with a different ending.

A wonderful combination of reality and fantasy...
This wonderful book, set in the city San Francisco, is of excitingadventure with a run-away teenage boy, and many other characters that youlearn about through out the book, the whole thing is almost directed likefrom a movie point of view. Great book, wonderful for young-adults, though,yes there's profanity in it... but, it's only neccessary for details...READ IT!

Freak Kirkus P. Associates - this book rocks!
I found this book a few years ago in the library.I read it.I LOVED it.And then, like a good library person I turned it in, thinking that I would be able to read it again some day.The brilliant colors of its imagery are still emblazoned on my mind many years later.Unforunately, the next person to check out the book did not feel obligated to return it at all, the library never purchased another copy, and now it has gone out of print.If I could get my hands on a copy of this book today I would snatch it up soooooooo fast.....Be warned, however, that it has extensive profanity.Wouldn't want anybody to be offended. = ) ... Read more

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In bookshop specializing in rare volumes, an avid fan of horror fiction seizes a tome too valuable and too incredible to fathom. In the end, the man was too curious to live. . . .

A few miles away, in a Manhattan brownstone, another man learns about the explosion that left a gaping hole in the fabric of reality. Colin–he has no other name–has been an unrelenting warrior against the dark, the demonic, and the damned. A man who has angels at his side and hell staring him in the face, he has devoted his life to solving magical crimes and tracking down–and neutralizing–the perpetrators of those crimes, human and nonhuman alike. Now Colin is about to team up with a beautiful Native American a long way from home and a tough NYPD detective who seems to be immune to magic. Together, in a funhouse of evidence and apparitions, they are chasing a killer and untangling a tale that leads from the infamous Vlad the Impaler to a dead twentieth-century occult author and his gorgeous daughter–who is as seductive as the devil himself.

Mr. Twilight combines the mystical and the mysterious, the supernatural and the primitive, in a rich, steamy brew of otherworldly adventure.
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Gripping story perfect for dual fans of mysteries and science fiction.
A rare bookshop find sends an avid horror fiction fan into danger while a fighter against the demonic battles a hole in the fabric of reality. Connections between the two events will bring in an investigation team unique in their ability to chase a killer through an underground occult world in this gripping story perfect for dual fans of mysteries and science fiction.

Diane C. Donovan
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Looking forward to reading the sequel(s)!
LOVED the characters and intriguing plot...some great mystery and horror here, as well as a dash of romance. I also very much enjoyed the dark humour. Looking forward to following these characters in future books.

Fantastic!
I couldn't put this book down!

Part magic realism, part urban fantasy, with more than a passing nod to Lovecraft and his ilk, but not too much for the horror-squeamish.It's got a whole lot of what always draws me to Charles de Lint, and I think de Lint fans would enjoy it.It also shares elements with the Magic Time series: parallel narratives, separate stories that gradually come together, and the gradual reveal of an overall picture that's bigger than you imagined.

Mages, shamans, angels, demons, historical figures, fictional monsters, and rifts in reality. Who could ask for anything more?

Well, actually, I could.Because it's the first in a trilogy.More please! ... Read more

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One of the earlier private detectives in a magical setting
Ja-Lur, also known as Darkworld, is the only planet in the galaxy where magic works. According to Darkworld's natural laws, only a native Darklander can wield magical powers. Hojas Mor, a visitor to Darkworld, has somehow gained access to these powers. Now he's putting his own bid to take over Darkworld. The "Black Hole of Carcosa" the title refers to is in essence a black hole, which might or might not be the cause of Hojas Mor's sorcerous abilities.

Private eye Kamus is half-Darklander. As such, he has unreliable access to magic, though he prefers to lean on his deductive powers and suspect-shadowing skills. Having returned to Ja-Lur from two years of off-planet gallivanting, Kamus has just leased an office from which to manage his detective agency. Dagmar, assistant to the Overlord, sounds him out about a prospective case. Moments later, a giant's head belonging to the sorcerer Hojas magically manifests and threatens Kamus, warning him away. But, of course, Dagmar's case involves Hojas: specifically, Kamus must unearth Hojas's source of power. Things continue to get muddier and treacherous for the persistent Kamus as he resolutely sleuths on and strives to live up to the shamus credo of his hero, Humphrey Bogart.

Kamus of Kadizhar: the Black hole of Carcosa is the sequel to Michael Reaves's fantasy novel Darkworld Detective and is written in fun, tongue-in-cheek fashion by John Shirley, who currently is better known for his two more gripping novels,Demons and Crawlers. Kamus follows (or emulates) a long tradition of obstinate, wise-cracking, tough as teak private dicks, unwilling to let go of a case. For a native of another planet, Kamus persists in dropping references from Earth's pop culture, much to the puzzlement of his fellow Darkworlders. More whimsical, this novel is somewhat reminiscent of Glen Cook's Garrett series and Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. It's worth a look-see, if only to check out John Shirley in a lighter mood. A three and a half stars effort.

Silly!
Silly! The Kamus of Kadizhar vs. Cute fluffy things. Features "Bob" of the humurous cult "The Church of SubGenius", to which Mr. Shirley is a member of. Cults tend to be bad, but if you want to join a cult you should join one with a sense of humor, a cult like the Church of SubGenius which incourges humor and slack.(Not like i'm a member or anything, though) ... Read more

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Wow
I had read some of these stories in Fantasy & Science Fiction but most were new to me.This guy can write.I recommend reading this book during the day in a crowded house because if you read it alone at night you will have the living daylights scared out of you.This book also includes the never before published Catsclaw.

Vey Highly recommended. ... Read more

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The air was suddenly charged with a bright actinic glare: she could see millions of raindrops, each one separate and distinct, frozen on their fall to earth. Lightning, she thought ... and surely it was thunder that followed immediately, even though the groundshaking rumble sounded eerily like the laughter of some grimly amused giant or elemental... But a thunderbolt didn't explain the vision Lia saw against the clouds, stark in the bright light, frozen like those myriad drops of rain: the vision of a gigantic gaunt man, towering as high as the clouds themselves, wearing black vestments, a stovepipe hat and small, round glasses. She could see the clouds dimly through him, and it seemed, as he moved, that his tattered coat was full of stars.

It's a surprisingly light novel for one with such heavy themes--rather like a crime or caper tale. The language is fluid, the plot is well paced and suspenseful, and the fact that the characters are two-dimensional doesn't detract that much. You'll learn a lot of fascinating Voudoun and Creole words, too. Some readers may long for a glossary, but if you're patient and wait a page or two, Reaves will give you each word's meaning in context. --Fiona WebsterBook Description
A conflict between voodoo and Santeria priests set against the colorful street life of New Orleans, with the fate of the world as the ultimate prize. ... Read more

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Had weird dreams! Thank you!
I had some weird dreams while I read this. Usually I read at nightwhen I'm going to bed, and when I get into my deep REM sleep there are elements of what I've read mixed in with whatever happened that day. This book added hex twists to everything in my subconscious. I really enjoyed it!

A fast paced, fun, fairly creepy
This is the first book I read by Reaves--still is, in fact--but I will be reading more.I found the book thoroughly enjoyable.A parole officer finds herself investigating one of New Orlean's most powerful criminals, Mal Sangre (don't worry, there's a story behind the cheesy name).Joining a Voodoo priest who originally came to America to stop his old friend from using bad Voodoo but is now serving time for a savage murder, the parole officer and a small cast of other interesting characters each experience the dark side of Voodoo.Fun stuff.

Voodoo in Nola, With a Twist
Voodoo Child (1998) is the third novel in a series of urban fantasies based on different magic traditions, but with a twist.Moreover, these stories are all hard-boiled mysteries.This novel invokes the tradition of Voodoun and Santeria.

Lia St. Charles is a New Orleans probation-parole officer who has Shane LaFitte among her parolees.Shane is a houngan, a Voudoun priest from Haiti, where he had been a friend of Jorge Arnez, a priest of Santeria and much more accomplished in his craft than Shane.

After several years, Shane begins to accept that his friend has become endiosados -- self-deified -- extending his studies to more powerful magics based on black witchcraft and ultimately gaining the power to enslave the mind of others.When the santero leaves Haiti, Shane and his wife, Anise, make arrangements to follow Arnez to the United States.

In New Orleans, Arnez is known as Mal Sangre and is the head of a powerful criminal organization. When Shane confronts him, Arnez gains control of his mind and forces him to kill his wife.When Shane is found with his wife's body, he is sentenced to 25 years in the state prison, but is let out after five years.Returning to Nola, Shane finds Arnez to be even more powerful and now planning a sacrifice to enable him to become a god.

When Shane tells his parole officer, Lia, that he is on a mission to save the world from an evil sorcerer, she doesn't believe a word of it.After Shane is found with a fired pistol in his hand, Lia sends him back to prison for violation of parole.Later, Lia is to learn that Shane was toning down the truth, but by then she was in too deep to back out.

Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone who enjoys tales of tracking down criminals who are using exotic and evil magic.

-Arthur W. Jordin

Ordinary. It could be better.
Actually, I thought it would entertain me but it didn't. It is not boring, but the plot is standard, it means it is predictable. It is one of the million of other horror books published all around the world. Nevertheless,I believe it could make a pretty nice movie. The only thing I liked verymuch was author's manner of description of places and people's behavior andthoughts.

Satisfying thriller!
Michael Reave's engaging narrative and dialog conjure clear & sometimes disturbing scenarios of a dark, ominous world beneath the tourist's New Orleans. After reading this story you may rethink your nextvisit to the Big Easy. ... Read more

Book Description
A MAN. A DEMON. AN ANGEL.
WILL THEY SAVE THE WORLD . . .
OR DESTROY IT?

In a Greenwich Village townhouse, a mysterious man named Colin, an orphan raised by sorcerers skilled in dark magic, awakens to find the talisman known as the Trine missing from its place of safekeeping--and an angel named Zoel impatiently ringing his doorbell.

In the death chamber of the Oregon Federal Penitentiary, Liz Russell, author of a bestseller on the serial killer called the Maneater, watches her subject receive the lethal injection that will end his life. But the Maneater has sworn that she will be his next victim--even if he has to claw his way up from Hell.

And in an Alabama backwoods clinic, a young girl gives birth to something monstrous and unholy, something that thirsts not for mother's milk, but for the blood of all that lives . . .

Now it's up to Colin, with the assistance of Zoel and the demon Asdeon-- aiding Colin for his own sinister purposes--to recover the Trine before its awesome power can be used to spark Armageddon. It's a struggle that Liz will find herself part of as well, whether she likes it or not. The only trouble is, without the Trine, Colin's magic is no match for that of his enigmatic adversary. And Zoel can be trusted no more than Asdeon to avert an apocalypse that may be as much God's plan as the Devil's desire. ... Read more

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Generic Horror wannabe
The title and synopsis was enough to make me pick this book up on a slow day, but I quickly discovered that they had little to do with the actual story within.To begin with, the writing style itself is very amateurish, written by someone more focused on the visual medium of TV or film than the more subtle nuances of the page.The moment I read about Colin's black leather motorcycle jacket and ray-ban sunglasses, I knew that literary talent would be in short supply.
One could almost see that Reaves had an entire back story in his head about this character and literary universe of the Shadowdance and black school, but he failed to inform the rest of us what it might be.It was like picking up a novel from the middle of a series and not knowing what is going on.
If anything, this is just a slasher movie on page rather than film, with the same level of character development, dialogue, plot development and, ultimately, originality.Normally I would encourage a writer to continue to improve, but after having written, and shockingly having had published, the number of books Reaves has, I do not see that happening.I would keep away from his work and, if horror is your interest, stick with authors like F. Paul Wilson and H.P. Lovecraft.

A deception of demons
Hell on Earth is an occult detective story written by the author of the Shattered World novels. While Reaves has several other such stories to his credit -- including one featuring the reporter Liz Russell -- I believe this is his first based on traditional Judeo-Christian mythology.

Colin is an orphan trained at the Scholomance in Transylvania, a school of dark magic. He has a Door that can apport him to any place on earth, but won't retrieve him. He did have the Trine, a mystical token of great power, but something Fallen has stolen it and left a smell of brimstone behind. Moreover, he has Zoel, an Unfallen Angel, who has come to ask him to help with a little problem. It seems that a demon has been born, the undead are walking, and the apocalypse may be near. No big deal for a magic wielding detective with an Angel sidekick, right?

The remainder of the story is a matter of searching for the Trine, questioning the suspects -- demons and such -- and checking out the various locales -- Vlad Dracula's castle, for one -- and putting the clues together. Along the way he picks up a few more assistants: the demon Asdeon, reporter Liz Russell, and ex-ranger Terry Dane.

This novel is bloody and violent, but more like suspenseful mystery that a horror story. Recommended for Reaves fans and anyone who likes magical detectives and occult mysteries.

Well, if you want a quick read that isn't too bad
I like horror novels, I like fantasy novels and so I figured I'd give "Hell on Earth" a try.I read this book in a few hours, it's not complex or hard to understand and the print is large.It's a good day at the beach book."The Stand" it's not.

This isn't a bad book at all, it's entertaining and scary and suspenseful even.The writing is pretty good and I think that a few books down the line could be really good.

The book takes us through the lives of several characters - Colin the mysterious demon hunter, Liz the former tabloid writer who is being stalked by a serial killer and Terry, the bodyguard with a hidden past.Each of their lives becomes connected as they move toward a demonic convergence with apocalyptic proportions.

Amusing, entertaining and an easy read.

Epic horror fantasy
Three strangers find themselves pawns in a battle between hell and earth: A bodyguard who loses one of his clients to something supernatural. A journalist who finds herself stalked beyond the grave by a serial killer named The Maneater. And a third who has lived his life between three worlds-- Hell, Heaven, and Earth-- and is a practitioner of an ancient art called The Shadowdance. All of them will have to confront two battling demons where the winner takes all. Before it's all over there will be help from above and below. But will they be too late?... Michael Reaves gives us a wild modern-horror-fantasy that is epic in scope, but delivered in a meager 280 pages. Things move in a kind of staccato fashion and with some tongue-in-cheek humor that sometimes hurts the story's credibility. (Even though I laughed out loud a few times.) But the imagination of the author and a rich background that we're only given a glimpse of, makes it worthwhile and hints at more to come. Overall, an engaging and inventive book that I recommend for horror-fantasy fans.

Not worth my time
When I read the title and jacket I was very interested.After the shocking first chapter which was pretty gross I was very disappointed.The book was filled with "demonology" terms and was very fustrating. I keep flipping back pages looking for the explainations to terms that were constantly thrown out as if the readers had a B.S in the history of spells and magic. With the exception of the opening chapter and a suprise near the end, the book was very disappointing.To sum it all up.This was the first book about Colin( the main character) but I felt like I was reading a sequel and was totally out of the loop. Too many questions and not enough answers is how I felt when I finished.The door was left open for a sequel but I won't be reading it. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of (James) Michael Reaves, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1742 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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