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BLOOD AND MAGICK<\/a> by James R. Tuck<\/p>\n

First sentences…<\/p>\n

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I should have known.<\/p>\n

There were signs.\u00a0 I’m supposed to be the damn expert.\u00a0 I should have caught the warnings.<\/p>\n

I should have.<\/p>\n

But I was completely clueless until the minute the restaurant exploded in a wave of eldritch flame and burning glass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deacon Chalk knows the truth about things that go bump in the night.\u00a0 Chalk looks like a stereotypical biker.\u00a0 Bald head.\u00a0 Tats. Tall, broad-shouldered and muscular.\u00a0 But Chalk is anything but stereotypical.\u00a0 Several years ago, he almost died along with his family.\u00a0 Vampires took them out.\u00a0 But Chalk was saved by an angelic blood transfusion.\u00a0 Yeah, angel’s blood.<\/p>\n

Now Chalk and the small circle of friends that surround him are monster hunters.<\/p>\n

But not tonight.<\/p>\n

Chalk, his girlfriend Tiff, and their friends are having a quiet dinner.\u00a0 Then all hell explodes.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 Members of a coven known as the Wrath of Baphomet attack.\u00a0 They’re after the “Blood of the Trinity”.<\/p>\n

Chalk and his team are no longer the monster hunters… tonight the monsters hunt them.<\/p>\n

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BLOOD AND MAGICK is the third book in James R. Tuck’s Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series.\u00a0 I’ve read and enjoyed all three.<\/p>\n

I love crime, noir and detective\/anti-hero stories. Add the right mix of humor and violence and I\u2019m on board. The tales don’t normally feature werewolves, vampires, witches or demons.\u00a0 But Tuck’s Deacon Chalk yarns do, and they work.<\/p>\n

Chalk is the type of anti-hero I like. Smart (but not brainy), tough and with enough attitude to get him in tight jams as he tries to (mostly) do the right thing. While I\u2019m not ready for a constant diet of this genre, when I do want another taste, I know James R. Tuck is open for business with other tales.<\/p>\n

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