Character List


Episode 1: Badge, Book, and Candle
by Max Gladstone

Sal Brooks - early thirties, female, brown hair, five nine, exhausted, borderline
breakdown case, shaking hands, haunted eyes
Perry brother, roommate Aiden with the crush on you, looking to buy the stolen texts.
Todd roommate —black, older than Perry and Aiden,
Detective Collins - her partner,

Chinese woman, white guy with red hair, unnamed third guy white guy had an Irish accent.”
special consultants to the police department
Father Arturo Menchú was tall, Hispanic, and wore a priest’s black shirt and collar.
Grace Chinese woman,
Liam

Liber Manus homunculus













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A good first episode for a serial. I met Sal, learned how and why she's involved, and got to know the players. I found the demon possessing her brother to be truly scary (her brother appearing as usual but tongueless freaked me right out). It's fairly typical in that there's a secret Vatican organization searching out evil books and battling demons, but Gladstone brought his own style to it.

I'm into serials lately, thanks to Seanan McGuire and Tim Pratt, so I'm going to give the rest of this a try. ( )

Bookburners Season One: Episode 1...

Bookburners is a serial about a detective named Sal Brooks who joins a secret Vatican Black-Ops Squad after her brother gets possessed by demons from handling an ancient text that houses dark magic and demons. The squad is tasked with retrieving these books before more demons are spread through the world.
 
I wasn't sure what to expect going in to this but I knew the serial was about books so I couldn't pass it up. I know my description sounds far out there but the story was actually pretty realistic and not too unbelievable. There's a little bit of mystery, a little action and fantasy and the story moves at a good pace. The black-ops squad is a mix of some pretty cool and quirky characters too.
 
This was the first episode of Season 1 and there are 16 episodes in this season. I'm definitely going to continue with the serial. I'm very curious to see what happens next. If you're interested in learning more, you can go to www.serialbox.com 
 
*I received Bookburners: The Complete Season One ARC from NetGalley & Serial Box Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!
 


24hr Clean Sweep ARC Read-a-Thon Book 1



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This story has spooky magic, a good setup for the series, and a main character fighting to save her brother. Definitely worth the time. ( )