Book Review - The Blood Singer by Patrick McNulty
Title: The Blood Singer
Author: Patrick McNulty
Publication Date: May 17th, 2018
Genre: Horror, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 142 pages
Rating: 4/5 stars
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Goodreads Blurb:
Sometimes only a demon can save you
Beaten and left for dead as a child, Haden Church was raised by the Ministry of Wraith and taught to hone his dark talents.
Now, as an adult, he uses those skills to track evil. When an innocent girl is kidnapped and buried alive, Haden needs more than just his ability to resurrect the dead. If he's going to find her in time, he'll need a little help.
The Blood Singer--a devil Haden once tried to kill--has the skills he needs, but her price for participation will be Haden's life.
My Thoughts:
This book is a really short, really fun read. Haden is a very unique character: as a kid he can see ghosts, a skill his mother tries very, very hard to beat out of him. After being taken in by the Ministry of the Wraith, he's taught to use those skills to essentially transport himself into a corpse, gaining all of that person's knowledge and memories. There's a downside though: while transporting his consciousness into a corpse, his own body is left vulnerable in a comatose state, and any injury he takes as a corpse transfers to his living body.
I honestly grabbed this book based entirely on the cover. It just caught my eye as I was browsing, and I HAD to read it! At 142 pages, it isn't a huge time-sink either. It would make a great one-sitting book, especially since it moves pretty quickly. I did sometimes get a bit bogged down by the sheer number of missing/extra commas, but given that this is a galley I guess I can't hold it against the book too much.
Its short length was a bit of a downside for me though. The story is fairly well fleshed out, but still I wanted more. I wanted to know more about Nyah's past assignment, about the intervening years between Haden being recruited and when the reader meets him again as a full-fledged Reaper. The author touches briefly on the mysterious Avernus Collective, but they never really get involved in the story. In a way it could be seen as a positive that I want so much more from this book: I'm definitely going to be eagerly awaiting the sequel!
(full disclosure: I received a free copy of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions and comments are my own.)
Author: Patrick McNulty
Publication Date: May 17th, 2018
Genre: Horror, Urban Fantasy
Pages: 142 pages
Rating: 4/5 stars
Buy It Now: https://amzn.to/2KjdxCQ
(note: this is an affiliate link)
Goodreads Blurb:
Sometimes only a demon can save you
Beaten and left for dead as a child, Haden Church was raised by the Ministry of Wraith and taught to hone his dark talents.
Now, as an adult, he uses those skills to track evil. When an innocent girl is kidnapped and buried alive, Haden needs more than just his ability to resurrect the dead. If he's going to find her in time, he'll need a little help.
The Blood Singer--a devil Haden once tried to kill--has the skills he needs, but her price for participation will be Haden's life.
My Thoughts:
This book is a really short, really fun read. Haden is a very unique character: as a kid he can see ghosts, a skill his mother tries very, very hard to beat out of him. After being taken in by the Ministry of the Wraith, he's taught to use those skills to essentially transport himself into a corpse, gaining all of that person's knowledge and memories. There's a downside though: while transporting his consciousness into a corpse, his own body is left vulnerable in a comatose state, and any injury he takes as a corpse transfers to his living body.
I honestly grabbed this book based entirely on the cover. It just caught my eye as I was browsing, and I HAD to read it! At 142 pages, it isn't a huge time-sink either. It would make a great one-sitting book, especially since it moves pretty quickly. I did sometimes get a bit bogged down by the sheer number of missing/extra commas, but given that this is a galley I guess I can't hold it against the book too much.
Its short length was a bit of a downside for me though. The story is fairly well fleshed out, but still I wanted more. I wanted to know more about Nyah's past assignment, about the intervening years between Haden being recruited and when the reader meets him again as a full-fledged Reaper. The author touches briefly on the mysterious Avernus Collective, but they never really get involved in the story. In a way it could be seen as a positive that I want so much more from this book: I'm definitely going to be eagerly awaiting the sequel!
(full disclosure: I received a free copy of this novel from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions and comments are my own.)
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