Dead Man Black Magic Outlaw Volume 1 Domino Finn 9780692644072 Books
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I'm Cisco Suarez necromancer, shadow charmer, black magic outlaw. Sounds kinda cool, doesn't it? It was, right until I woke up half dead in a dumpster. Did I say half dead? Because I meant 100% dead. Full on. I don't do things halfway. So here I am, alive for some reason, just another sunny day in Miami. It's a perfect paradise, except I'm into something bad. Wanted by police, drenched in the stink of dark magic, nether creatures coming out of the woodwork, and don't get me started on the Haitian voodoo gang. Trust me, it's all fun and games until there's a zombie pit bull on your tail. I'm Cisco Suarez necromancer, shadow charmer, black magic outlaw, and totally screwed.
Dead Man Black Magic Outlaw Volume 1 Domino Finn 9780692644072 Books
After devouring the entire Dresden series by Jim Butcher, I've been dabbling with other series here and there, trying to find other urban fantasy that serves up non-stop action, plausible mystery, solid world building, and a hero with a (somewhat) moral core.Imagine my surprise to find it in a black magic outlaw.
Our hero wakes up dead--or alive, we're not sure--in a dumpster, and his day goes downhill from there. Miami is painted in vivid prose, from the slang to the pink sidewalks. There are Cuban gangs, zombies, thralls, giant spiders, and a seriously badass African vampire. (Hint: they don't sparkle.)
The mystery unfolds with more twists than a Norse runic tattoo, and kept me reading straight through with few breaks. At the end, I put it down with a satisfied sigh. This is what I've wanted since I finished Skin Game. Spiffy urban fantasy. I eagerly await further books!
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Dead Man Black Magic Outlaw Volume 1 Domino Finn 9780692644072 Books Reviews
I adored this book. Am I allowed to adore violent urban fantasy books? Whatever. I'll do it anyway. I haven't been this excited to read a book in months. Everything has been blurring together lately but this was just plain fun to read.
Yes, it's dark and violent, but if you can't glean that within the first 5 seconds of reading, I don't know what to tell you. It's not over the top or just for shock value either. Everything comes together smoothly, from the magic to the bad guys to even the setting of Miami. I felt like I was there, in all its humid, overcrowded, seedy glory.
It was also well-paced non-stop action, only pausing to take breaths to get to know the character better. Cisco is complex and while he comes off flippant at times, he has different sides to him that aren't always fun and games. You really feel for him. I walked away still thinking about him.
I highly recommend it, if you can't tell. I've already dived into the sequel and it hasn't disappointed yet.
This is an urban fantasy. No sex, plenty of death, blood and gore. Voodoo ritual, gang violence and black magic. There is a satisfying ending, but it took a lot of blood and tears to get there. Seriously.
Cisco is a typical 24 year old kid/man. He thinks he knows everything. Playing with black magic is a game . . . until it isn’t. Someone or someones are trying to kill him. He is at times arrogant, self pitying and cold blooded. He’s an assassin albeit involuntarily.
This story has more twists and turns to it than the back roads of the Missouri Ozarks. I could never tell if Cisco’s friends were really his friends or if they were an enemy in disguise. The same with his enemies. You know the saying enemy of my enemy is my friend . . . for now.
I listened to the audio and read the book. I liked both, but I did enjoy reading better than listening. The narrator was fine, but he didn’t differentiate much between characters. It won’t stop me from trying another audio of his, though.
Will I listen or read to book #2? Hell, yes. I enjoyed Mr. Finn’s writing and the characters were very colorful and animated (heehee . . . see what I did there? No? Read the book. You’ll get it.). I am not all that keen on Cisco’s attitude, but since this is the first book, there always needs to be room for growth. I have faith that Cisco will grow up and take more responsibility for his actions. I believe that is going to be true because of the last few words in the book “With a checkered past and a decade of bad deeds, I had a lot to atone for.” I am looking forward to #2. Bring it on.
I liked the theme, the core concept of this story, but too many details just didn't gel for me. The main character is a warlock / brujo in Miami who wakes up in a dumpster after having been 'dead' for years. At first he doesn't know he was dead, and doesn't know it's been years ... I found this part to be really well conceived ... imagine pulling a Rip Van Winkle, you wake up and as far as you know it's just the next morning but in reality years have gone by ... talk about culture shock! Think of all the technology and things you see on a daily basis, and how they have changed in the past ten or 15 years ... now imagine that change happening overnight. Yikes!
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But we quickly encounter the first of several key details that really didn't pass my own personal "sniff test" ... fairly early in the book we find out he wasn't ever actually dead, rather he was being mind-controlled by an evil warlock / voodoo guy for the past XX years. And even after he (and we) finds out he did not ever actually die, he continues to refer to his 'death', his 'murder', or his 'being dead for XX years'. That's really annoying. Basically he keeps saying "I have to avenge myself on the people who killed me even though they didn't actually kill me and I wasn't actually dead, and all the other murders I want to avenge were mostly carried out by me while I wasn't dead" ... made my brain hurt.
There's a handful of other little annoyances at places in the story, basically inconsistent or unrealistic behavior by various characters ... I tried to keep the disbelief in suspension, but every little inconsistency was a stumbling block to my engagement with the story. Some people don't fret the details, and if that's you, then have at it and I hope you enjoy this book more than I did.
In general I would advise tentative readers to buy a used copy of this first book, and if you find you do enjoy it then go ahead and buy the rest of the series new so as to support the author.
After devouring the entire Dresden series by Jim Butcher, I've been dabbling with other series here and there, trying to find other urban fantasy that serves up non-stop action, plausible mystery, solid world building, and a hero with a (somewhat) moral core.
Imagine my surprise to find it in a black magic outlaw.
Our hero wakes up dead--or alive, we're not sure--in a dumpster, and his day goes downhill from there. Miami is painted in vivid prose, from the slang to the pink sidewalks. There are Cuban gangs, zombies, thralls, giant spiders, and a seriously badass African vampire. (Hint they don't sparkle.)
The mystery unfolds with more twists than a Norse runic tattoo, and kept me reading straight through with few breaks. At the end, I put it down with a satisfied sigh. This is what I've wanted since I finished Skin Game. Spiffy urban fantasy. I eagerly await further books!
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