Eric and Tabitha head into Mictlan. ( )

The third book has Eric going down to Mexico to see how he can break his marriage with Santa Muerte. As the jade slowly creeping over his body every time he uses the magic of her former husband [who is trapped in jade] his time is coming to an end where he will be trapped in the jade instead of the ex-husband, the King of the Dead. He enters the Aztec land of the dead and does meet people he has sent there and finds out that things are not working correctly, and he needs to fix that in order to get to the final part of the lands and face Santa Muerte and get free from her once and for all. But Eric’s own actions from previous books continue to factor in what happens here. Another entertaining audio book with a great cast and I can’t wait to spend time in the car so I can listen to the next one. ( )

Hungry Ghosts
(Eric Carter #3)
by Stephen Blackmoore
I am so loving these books! I have bought them on Chirp when they were on sale. I had the paperbacks already but I love the audios with a variety of narrators. This series is a fantasy lovers dream books! A variety of ghosts, necromancy, old gods, magic, lots of action, and I love books that have wit and humor thrown in!
On to the next book! ( )

(language warning)

“Damn right I don’t deserve it. Nobody fucking deserves it. I’m in the middle of a cosmic threesome I didn’t want to have and I’m the one getting fucked.”

Well that escalated quickly.

Hungry Ghosts gets even further away from the standard necromany stuff and more into the Aztec mythology as Eric tries his hardest to save himself and kill anyone that gets into his way--even if they so happen to be gods.

This time around, Tabitha is back and has a bit of a Santa Muerte problem herself. I'm still not entirely sure what to think about her character arc in this series. It's interesting, but really really strange.

Worldbuildingwise, Mictlan (the Aztec land of the dead) is fascinating and feels well done. The island of the dolls is so very creepy. And real...

Also:

Sharpie magic is the best magic.

He's not wrong. It's hilarious.

That was quite a third to the series. It's still not going where I expected to at first, but I'm getting used to it. It's unfortunate that this is the last one out thus far. I really want to know what the fallout of that whole mad ending is... ( )

***spoilers ahead you have been warned***

Nooooooooooo this can’t be the ending of the series can it???!!! I’ve taken a liking to Eric Carter. He’s still has his anti hero jerk side, but in this book, he’s mellowed out quite a bit (or if you really think about it, he grew up and stopped being filled with rage.)

Sad to say, I noticed Gabriela takes an absence in this one. Which is too bad because I rather liked her presence. She was a perfect side fighting partner with Eric. Alas perhaps later I hope?

I also liked the complete 360 Tabatha did. She’s not what you thought she was and now that things are getting pretty serious she’s really down to earth and idealistic. Which I rather started to like about her. She’s also started to grow more of a backbone and talking back to Eric a bit more. I’m not sure if I really like them as a couple though. I think it just seems like Eric is so much of a lone wolf you don’t see him with anyone romantically. Who knows though, as Eric does take a personality change though.

Eric’s journey in this book has a more serious undertone and not a high flying adventure like the first too ones. This one, well he’s just about at the end of his rope and he’s had it with being the pawn in the games of the Gods. Plus, well he’s turning to jade so that can’t be comfortable can it? So his journey into the underworld is pretty serious at this point. I enjoyed reading the descriptions of the underworld. I can’t get over the “Mad Max” cars (because that’s the first thing I thought when I read the description!). I thought it was well done and what an underworld really should be.

The ending was good. It did tie up various loose ends and it seems like the series stops there. I did hear however that this is not the end, there’s going to be more Eric Carter novels so I’d like to know who he’ll square up against now. It’s nice that he closes everything that’s been following him all throughout the first three books so I think he’s ready for another set of getting beaten up to a pulp :D more demons please!!!! ( )