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Justin Gustainis

Teoksen Black Magic Woman tekijä

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Tekijän teokset

Black Magic Woman (2008) 338 kappaletta
Hard Spell (2011) 325 kappaletta
Evil Ways (2008) 143 kappaletta
Evil Dark (2012) 143 kappaletta
Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives (2011) — Toimittaja — 118 kappaletta
Known Devil (2013) 106 kappaletta
Sympathy for the Devil (2010) 79 kappaletta
The Devil Will Come (2016) 29 kappaletta
Play With Fire (2012) 21 kappaletta
The Hades Project (2003) 19 kappaletta
Midnight at the Oasis (2013) 18 kappaletta
Strange Magic (2015) 14 kappaletta
Devil You Know (2010) 1 kappale
Deal Breaker 1 kappale
Courtesy 1 kappale
Back-Up Man [short fiction] (2010) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations (2013) — Avustaja — 145 kappaletta
Darker Than Noir (2011) — Avustaja — 26 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1951
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
USA
Asuinpaikat
Pittsburgh, New York, USA

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This one got quietly put aside. I guess the goal is for the protagonist to come across as a just regular guy doing an irregular job. Unfortunately for me, the character just comes across as 2 dimensional and none too clever. The author spends a lot of time explaining how the world works, but the protagonist doesn't seem to have the kind of savvy that a veteran police officer working a supernatural crime squad would have picked up just to survive. I lost interest.
 
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djambruso | 23 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 23, 2024 |
Enjoyable and well written. The ending is a "whiskey tango foxtrot" ending, but OK.

I like Stan Markowski, he's honest and a hard-a**, but growing on me.
 
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fuzzipueo | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 24, 2022 |
Evil running amok, killing little kids for their organs, a Black Magician who comes across as a spoiled little boy who did not get his way and several people intent on stopping the coming of, well, the END. Though Gustainis writes a fairly good story, his dialogue can be quite clunky and awkward at times and I think he tries too hard to explain stuff that should be obvious to the reader. Still, I enjoyed this book.

This is the name dropping book and I found myself wondering just how close to copyright you can skim before tipping over the edge ...

~The characters go to Chicago chasing leads down and with the intent to speak with Harry "Chicago's resident wizard" Dresden. They also visit Mac's Bar. While in Chicago, Morris tries to get in touch with Carl Kolchak but Tony is less than cooperative. LOL

~Hannah Widmark, the woman Morris hires to watch his and Libby Chastain's backs, was trained to shoot Colt .45s by a guy named Cranston ... cue eerie laugh.

~Even the X-Files gets named checked!

I'm not to sure who Frank in the text is, or what the whole fist shake he shares with Hannah is, though it could be just Gustainis' own addition to his universe. I kind of wonder if he wasn't trying for a reference to Supernatural.


I'm beginning to think there ought to to be a convention of wizards, magic workers, monster hunters etc. including Harry, Alex Verus, Quincy Morris & Libby Chastain, Peter Grant, the Winchesters ...
… (lisätietoja)
 
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fuzzipueo | 9 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 24, 2022 |
The narrator is a little uneven in his voices, sometimes allowing one voice to bleed into another character. Still, a fun (re)read as usual.
 
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fuzzipueo | 23 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 24, 2022 |

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Teokset
19
Also by
2
Jäseniä
1,386
Suosituimmuussija
#18,547
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.7
Kirja-arvosteluja
104
ISBN:t
55
Kielet
2
Kuinka monen suosikki
1

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