Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Witchbane
AUTHOR: Morgan Brice
PUBLISHER: Darkwind Press
LENGTH: 244 Pages
RELEASE DATE: February 19, 2018
BLURB:
Seth Tanner and his brother Jesse’s fun evening debunking local urban legends ends with Jesse’s gruesome murder. Seth vows revenge on Jesse’s killer – too bad the murderer has been dead for a hundred years. Seth uncovers a cycle of ritual killings that feed the power of a dark warlock’s immortal witch-disciples, and he’s hell bent on stopping Jackson Malone from becoming the next victim. He’s used to risking his neck. He never intended to risk his heart.
REVIEW:
I picked this one up off our available to review list and I’m glad I did. I used to be a huge fan of the television show Supernatural and this book reminded me of that series.
I was hooked from the first page, when Seth Tanner and his brother go off to camp at a location where a deadly train wreck happened over a hundred years previously and a supposed witch was hanged. It is reported to be a very haunted location, and let’s just say that proves to be true, and there are other forces at work as well.
Next the story skips ahead to the current day, and Seth is in Richmond searching for a killer. The killer is one of the disciples of the evil man who was hung in the tale in the beginning of the book, and the killer is now immortal through magic and human sacrifice. The next sacrifice is to be a man named Jackson Malone, and Seth needs to find him before he dies.
The writing was good. I see the author has published other books under another name, but I haven’t read those, nor was I familiar with her. I thought the pace of the story was good, but the instant love within just a few days seemed a little over the top. Not that it doesn’t happen, but with this story’s events, and running from death, and a lot of blood and near-death experiences, it seemed odd to me. That aside, I recommend the book to anyone who enjoys an urban fantasy meets ghosthunters type book. I really liked the ghost aspects of the story and will be interested in seeing where the author goes from here, since this is supposedly the start of a new series.
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