{"id":6916,"date":"2019-10-08T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2019-10-09T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T02:10:40","slug":"book-review-21st-century-demon-hunter-by-charles-d-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-21st-century-demon-hunter-by-charles-d-lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: 21st Century Demon Hunter by Charles D. Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"

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21st<\/sup> Century Demon Hunter\u00a0<\/em>by Charles D. Lincoln<\/p>\n

Burning Bulb Publishing, 2019<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-1-948278-17-1<\/p>\n

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

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With main character Juliette Johannes, first time author Charles D. Lincoln may have created the most entertaining antihero the horror genre has ever seen.\u00a0 By day (when she isn’t too hung over) she’s one of many faceless bicycle delivery people pedaling their way through New York City.\u00a0 At night, she spends her time swilling, stoning, snorting, and screwing her way through the Manhattan nightclub scene.\u00a0 Waking up in a strange bed with no memory next to a strange guy (or girl) is a weekly occurrence for her.\u00a0 Due to family lineage, she’s also an on-call destroyer of demons that hide on Earth and occasionally decide to stir up trouble.\u00a0 In this story, monsters exist all over the place, but only a small group of humans are aware of them, and have dedicated their time to keeping the rest of humanity safe.\u00a0 When the demons start stirring up more trouble than usual, Juliette and her two sisters, Samantha and Persephone, get pulled into a web of murder and deceit that wrecks various sections of New York City. It’s a 400-page odyssey of mayhem and hilarity that is completely over the top, and works in every possible way.<\/p>\n

Two things elevate this book above the competition: the originality of the plot and the unconventional but highly amusing characters.\u00a0 God and humans against Satan and his minions\u00a0 is a trope that has been used frequently, but author Lincoln wisely throws out the conventions that usually come with such a story.\u00a0 Instead of “good vs. evil”, the conflict is set up as the forces of order against the forces of chaos, with neither side being truly good or bad.\u00a0 Rather than a single “spirit realm”, Lincoln\u00a0 has created nine different realms populated with all sorts of demons of varying strength.\u00a0 \u00a0This helps prevent the story from becoming predictable: it allows for a lot more variety in the types of fiends that appear in the book, as well as plot flexibility.\u00a0 Some creatures are almost harmless and actually cute (the killer demon koalas come to mind) and some are as tough and nasty as anything since Lovecraft’s Cthulhu demons first graced the printed page.\u00a0 21st<\/sup> Century Demon Hunter <\/em>is a perfect example of how to take an old idea and reinvent it into something truly original.<\/p>\n

The plot is excellent, but the true strength is in the characters.\u00a0 It’s almost impossible not to find them interesting, because they are so unconventional.\u00a0 Juliette is a prime example.\u00a0 She shows up to exorcisms drunk,\u00a0 treats powerful demons like annoying children that need a good spanking, and berates them for their lack of imagination in scaring people. When a demon vomits on her, she pukes right back on him.\u00a0 It’s why she’s so entertaining; she’s unlike any other exorcist ever created.\u00a0 The other characters are just as off the wall.\u00a0 For instance, Christopher and Serenity are a brother-sister vampire team, who happen to talk like Cockneys and are usually more into watching the stock market then draining humans of blood.\u00a0 With the characters in the book, abnormal is the normal, and it holds the reader’s interest all the way to the end.<\/p>\n

Horror and humor are two sides of the same coin, and 21st<\/sup> Century Demon Hunter<\/em> strikes the absolute perfect balance between the two.\u00a0 The excitement will have you flipping the pages as fast as possible, while laughing out loud at the same time.\u00a0 An unusual, original work not to be missed.<\/p>\n

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Contains: graphic violence, graphic sex, drug use, profanity, racial slurs and stereotypes<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/p>\n

Editor’s note:\u00a0<\/em>21st Century Demon Hunter\u00a0<\/em>is also a streaming series<\/a> on Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

21st Century Demon Hunter\u00a0by Charles D. Lincoln Burning Bulb Publishing, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-948278-17-1 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition   With main character Juliette Johannes, first time author Charles D. Lincoln may have created the most entertaining antihero the horror genre has ever seen.\u00a0 By day (when she isn’t too hung over) she’s one of many faceless<\/p>\n

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