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Title: Bookburners: Season One Volume One
Series: Bookburners
Author: Max Gladstone
Rating: 0.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 295
Format: Digital Edition
Title: Bookburners: Season One Volume One
Series: Bookburners
Author: Max Gladstone
Rating: 0.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Pages: 295
Format: Digital Edition
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Synopsis:
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New York Police
Detective Sal gets sucked into the world of the Bookburners when her
brother opens a magical book and ends up in a coma after a demon
possesses him.
Now under the
auspices of the Catholic church with Father Menchu, with Presbyterian
layman and former demon possessed Liam, super duper fighter secret
keeper Grace and Archivist Asanti, Sal is out to capture dangerous
magical books that could have a huge negative impact on the human
race.
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My
Thoughts:
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This is the first half, 8 short stories, of the first volume of the
Bookburners. It is a collection of short stories that tell an overall
bigger story. Things were flying along right up until the last
story. Then I had 2 serious issues.
A transgender character is one of the main side characters and
everybody in the group is perfectly fine with it, including the
Catholic Priest and the layman Presbyter. The one character who does
have a problem with the whole transgender issue is literally
demonized by the author. Not going to be reading more of that!
Then you have the relationship between Sal and Liam. They end up
sleeping together once and then wonder where things are going. By the
end of this volume, Liam has decided since he was damned for being
demon possessed, what's a little fornication on the side? It was
horrible to read and yet shows the mind set of most 21st
century people in this day and age. There is no mention of Jesus
Christ, just the Catholic Church's traditions. There was no power
towards Salvation.
So no more of this for me.
☆☆☆☆½
