Junkyard Druid The Colin McCool Paranormal Suspense Series Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) MD Massey Steven Barnett Books
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A cursed druid, blackmailed by a faery queen to find a missing magic rock. Let's just hope they don't hack the druid off...for everyone's sake.
Name's Colin McCool. Folks call me the Junkyard Druid. I hate that name.
Despite my last name, I'm not "cool" like the other hunters in town. I don't run an occult bookstore, I've never owned a Harley, and I didn't inherit a family fortune passed down through generations of hunters before me.
And I kind of have this curse on me that's messed up my life.
So, things have gone to hell since I was cursed. I live in a junkyard, my mentor Finn is a heroin addict, I've got the Cold Iron Circle breathing down my neck, and the local Fae Queen Maeve is blackmailing me into doing her dirty work.
Now I'm in way over my head trying to retrieve Maeve's stolen magic rock, all while helping my friend Belladonna solve a series of murders that may or may not involve the local werewolves.
And did I mention that my girlfriend is a ghost?
If I can just get the Faery Queen's tathlum back, and help Belladonna solve the murders...
Then I just might live long enough to finish my first year of college.
Junkyard Druid The Colin McCool Paranormal Suspense Series Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) MD Massey Steven Barnett Books
This is a stand alone story. It does not end in a cliffhanger. There is foreshadowing for another book, which the author says is coming. There is little swearing. There is one non-graphic scene of consensual sex, but everything else is heavy flirting and mild innuendo.Colin is a young man with a problem. Trained as a hunter, he and his girlfriend, another hunter, are pushed by their mentor, a 2000 year old druid, into hunting something that turns out to be more than they can handle. When the fight goes poorly, he discovers he's been cursed and turns into a hulk-type berserker, killing everyone and thing in his path, including his girlfriend--who may be haunting him.
Threatened into accepting a job from Maeve, queen of the fae, he tries to balance returning to college, finding the object Maeve wants, and handling his drunken, drug addicted mentor.
Colin is a likeable character. Younger than usual in these type of stories, we see him struggling to overcome his crushing guilt as he attends therapy, and talking about not enabling his mentor. This is not to say the book is full of self-discovery angst. Instead, it just has the ring of a young man trying to live a typical life, failing through no fault of his own, and being damned annoyed about it.
Colin's world is richly populated with well known and lesser known people and creatures. There's the quartet of red caps who seem to be stuck in a bad 80's version of the Sopranos, the bar keep who is the head of the local vampires, the obligatory circle of witches/wizards with whom he has a mutual lack of admiration, various strange creatures from Irish mythology, werewolves, and a woman friend who shrouds herself so well in don't-look-at-me spells that people think he's talking to himself when he's having coffee with her. All of these creatures and people are integrated easily into the story, and make sense when they show up.
The only thing this reader felt could be improved was that some explanations were a bit overlong.
This story was an excellent read; lighter than others in this genre without sacrificing plot or characters. This reader looks forward to the next book.
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Junkyard Druid The Colin McCool Paranormal Suspense Series Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) MD Massey Steven Barnett Books Reviews
This was considerably more fun than I initially feared. Persevere through the first couple chapters of angst and sadness, because after that things get rolling. I quite enjoyed all the different creatures out of folklore, and am hopeful for more about the Maori gentleman. I intend to purchase the next book.
I very much enjoyed this book, but it was pretty short--I read it in about two and a half hours (but I am a fast reader). You do get a good sense of the MC, Colin, but, when the author starts trying to explain all the Irish myths in a paragraph summary, it's just an information dump that is poured out on the reader. The Irish Gaelic names, which, unless you speak Gaelic or are Irish or studied Irish myth or Gaelic, you are pronouncing in your head incorrectly, are sometimes too much alike to keep straight. And I actually studied Irish mythology at Oxford in England, which was the only reason I knew what the author was talking about (and also how I know you're pronouncing those names incorrectly--they don't sound how they're spelled--believe me). To be fair to the author, it's hard to fit centuries of mythology into a one or two paragraph summary, and he did a pretty good job of it, but, if the book had been longer and fleshed out more, he could have done a better job of it. I also really did not like the time jumping from chapter to chapter. Chapter one is more like a Prologue -- three years ago -- but then you have present day, then a countdown since the day a tragedy occurred, which goes something like, eight months, two days since 'tragedy.' I got into the swing of it, but not until five or six chapters in, and it was annoying. I see why the author did it--neither the flashbacks nor the primary plot were fleshed out enough to be a book on their own--but they could have been.
However, Colin McCool is a likable character (if a little too naive to be believable, and the reader can relate to and empathize with him. I would read other books in this series, and I recommend this book to those who enjoy an angst-ridden, almost anti-hero, with a huge chip on his shoulder and a world of hurt in his heart.
Colin McCool is all grown up and wants to be a normal human but the magic realm isn't that forgetting or forgiving.
The opening of this book literally broke my heart. My intro to Colin McCool was with Druid Blood in which he is a teenager and just learning about the magic that exists in his world and with the opening of Junkyard Druid my lovely image of Colin's world was crushed and my heart bleed for Colin. And that's just the first chapter, as the book goes on we see how Colin has and continues to deal with the events of that first chapter. We are also introduced to a great cast of characters that will hopefully be helpful to Colin in the future.
I was literally drawn into this world and its characters, M.D. Massey's writing was very smooth and the pacing of the book was nice and steady with an open ending for more in the series. I'm definitely looking forward to reading Graveyard Druid next to see what else happens to Colin.
This is a stand alone story. It does not end in a cliffhanger. There is foreshadowing for another book, which the author says is coming. There is little swearing. There is one non-graphic scene of consensual sex, but everything else is heavy flirting and mild innuendo.
Colin is a young man with a problem. Trained as a hunter, he and his girlfriend, another hunter, are pushed by their mentor, a 2000 year old druid, into hunting something that turns out to be more than they can handle. When the fight goes poorly, he discovers he's been cursed and turns into a hulk-type berserker, killing everyone and thing in his path, including his girlfriend--who may be haunting him.
Threatened into accepting a job from Maeve, queen of the fae, he tries to balance returning to college, finding the object Maeve wants, and handling his drunken, drug addicted mentor.
Colin is a likeable character. Younger than usual in these type of stories, we see him struggling to overcome his crushing guilt as he attends therapy, and talking about not enabling his mentor. This is not to say the book is full of self-discovery angst. Instead, it just has the ring of a young man trying to live a typical life, failing through no fault of his own, and being damned annoyed about it.
Colin's world is richly populated with well known and lesser known people and creatures. There's the quartet of red caps who seem to be stuck in a bad 80's version of the Sopranos, the bar keep who is the head of the local vampires, the obligatory circle of witches/wizards with whom he has a mutual lack of admiration, various strange creatures from Irish mythology, werewolves, and a woman friend who shrouds herself so well in don't-look-at-me spells that people think he's talking to himself when he's having coffee with her. All of these creatures and people are integrated easily into the story, and make sense when they show up.
The only thing this reader felt could be improved was that some explanations were a bit overlong.
This story was an excellent read; lighter than others in this genre without sacrificing plot or characters. This reader looks forward to the next book.
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