Supernatural Nevermore - Book non-review Part 2
Supernatural Nevermore
By Keith R.A. DeCandido
Non-review Part 2
Chapter Five: The boys meet Ash’s friend and he is a great character, a throwback to Woodstock. He offers to let Dean and Sam stay with him and Dean is in metallica heaven. The bantering is better, the characterization seems to have settled in and the plotline is rolling along. I’m pleased with this chapter, although still nothing exciting or Supernaturalish chilling has happened yet.
Chapter Six: Dean wakes up from a cool and vivid nightmare, troubled about John telling him he’d have to kill Sam. Now we’re talking. Sam goes to the Poe cottage and learns more clues. The story is picking up pace so I’m liking better. Sam sees a guy he thinks is familiar.
Chapter Seven: Good chapter. Moved the plot along well with the boys discussing the clues. Picking up speed. I liked it. Always nice to see the boys’ brains working in tandem and the author got the rhythm just right with that.
Chapter Eight: Nothing really happens. Dean flirts with a bartender and he and Sam have a little disagreement about how to work the cases.
Chapters Nine and Ten: More clues gathered. Meet a hunter/cop. Reads more like a mystery, which I guess it is, but without any spine-chilling fun creepiness yet, but the story is moving forward kinda. A ghost finally makes an appearance. She’s cool-looking, floaty without limbs, but not scary. They simply shoot her once with a salt-round.
Chapter Eleven: Goes way off canon. Sam tells Dean that John signed all his papers for Stanford the first year, but that Sam had himself declared independent for all the following years. First off, never happened. Second off, Sam would have been eighteen his sophomore year. He wouldn’t need to have himself declared. This just makes Sam look like an imbecile, which we know he’s not. Did this not go through editors?
Chapter Twelve: More clue gathering. More 70s rock trivia. Dean flirts with a bartender.
Chapter Thirteen: This chapter is in the ghost’s POV. She throws picture frames at the boys and then leaves. Where is the scary-creepy?
Chapter Fourteen: Finally run into the main Baddie, almost. They interrupt something, Dean chases, but doesn’t catch. There is a moment when a gun is pulled on Sam, but the guy is talked down. No brotherly schmoop, no heart-clenching fear arises from Dean or me. Sigh.
Chapter Fifteen: On a college campus, Sam makes a comment that is so out of character I’m seething a little bit. It goes: Grinning, Dean said, “Thought you liked all this academic stuff. Ivy-covered halls, higher learning, all that crap.”
“Yeah, and the dead girlfriend,” he [Sam] said bluntly.
I, um, I don’t even know what to say about that, except: Sam would NEVER say something like that. Well, not during Season 2. Season 6 Soulless Sam might, but that's not then.
Chapter Sixteen: Inside the Baddie’s POV and get a glimpse of what he’s about to do. Still not scary, dang it. At this point with only two chapters left I’m ready to rush through it and be done.
Chapter Seventeen: First case solved. No gore, fight, creeps, nothing. I could cry.
Chapter Eighteen: Case solved. No monster, just a whack job. (Sorry, guess that was a spoiler, but I don’t care at this point.) Except for one pansy ghost, nothing supernatural, nada, zilch. Ridiculous. This is a book based on Supernatural, right? There was buildupthat there might be a cool fire, but nope, that never happened either. Neither of the boys were in any jeopardy. No brotherly moments. Nothing tender. Nothing scary, creepy, or eeew gross.
I’m kind of sad. I wanted it to be good or at least have a few decent moments with Sam and Dean that were real, but there wasn’t anything like that. This was like reading a bland mystery novel that had nothing to do with the Winchesters or the show whatsoever. I’m going to try another one of the writers before I go back to thisguy. Hpefully his other ones will be improved and he'll have actually watched the show.
Dean has blue eyes . . . tssssk. *Shaking head*
I cannot recommend this book.
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