{"id":5604,"date":"2018-03-09T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:14:06","slug":"book-review-witch-hunter-into-the-outside-by-j-z-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-witch-hunter-into-the-outside-by-j-z-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Witch Hunter: Into the Outside by J. Z. Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Witch Hunter: Into the Outside <\/em>by J. Z. Foster<\/p>\n

CreateSpace, 2017<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1974522255<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n

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Witch Hunter: Into the Outside <\/em>by J.Z. Foster is a tongue-in-cheek, ghoulish farce.\u00a0 Richard, a picked-upon, chubby nebbish, is a member of a group of nerds dedicated to combating supernatural evil.\u00a0 He suspects that the members are only half serious about their rituals, array of holy weapons and clandestine attacks against evil.\u00a0 Richard entices Beth, an ambitious, would-be, TV reporter, and Ted, her cameraman, to accompany them on a hunt for a local witch.<\/p>\n

Although Richard\u2019s goal is to track down the warlock with a sanctified knife, a necklace with a cross, holy water and a book of spells, none of the small group expects anything to come from the expedition. To their shock, they encounter a series of horrors, including a wight with an insatiable, ravenous appetite, a noxious, deceptive daeva, and murderous sankai with faces of children and bodies of animals.\u00a0\u00a0 The confrontations escalate into a showdown with a plague warlock, who has caused stillbirths, deformed births in animals, and other catastrophes in their local community.<\/p>\n

With the exception of Richard, most of the characters are one-dimensional, but readers will be caught up in the fast-placed plot.\u00a0 The chapters alternate between the witch hunters\u2019 increasingly harrowing adventures and Richard\u2019s jailhouse interrogation after he is accused of murdering Beth. \u00a0Readers will empathize with his struggle to confront his self-doubt, fears and loneliness.\u00a0 As Beth wrote,<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was more than the coward he though he was, or the fumbling nervous man he appeared to be.\u00a0 Richard was proof that we could all become something greater.\u00a0 When faced with the impossible, Richard stood.\u00a0 Richard was the hope of man, and proof that our destinies are unwritten.\u00a0 Richard was proof that our fates are our own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Contains: rare obscenity<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert D. Yee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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