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A True Story from a Parallel Universe: Absurdly Humorous Urban Fantasy (The Poe Detective Agency Book 1) Kindle Edition
Romeo Moon, shapeshifter (canine variety) and necromancer, is on a case. He hunts a mass-murdering former god who turns out to be family. Talk about disappointing. Then a Robber Baron associate of the mafia from Hell (literally) decides to have Romeo killed when he interferes with the baron's plans to conquer Romeo's home city. Romeo and his best-friend (half-zombie-reformed church- magician) and his girlfriend, a zombie villain (but with a good sense of humor), are all that stand between the baron's success and failure.
I’m an award winning author of five traditionally published novels. The Poe Detective Agency series is independently published. It's a completed trilogy. Like Romeo, I'm adopted.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 29, 2020
- File size5374 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B08DYFYL9Q
- Publisher : Keeping It Weird Press (July 29, 2020)
- Publication date : July 29, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 5374 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 258 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #361,910 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #632 in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction
- #1,158 in Humorous Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #1,664 in Humorous Fantasy (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
I’ve published thirteen novels, five traditionally and eight independently. I write Humor and Horror and SFF and Humor. I'm a big consumer of stories, particularly SF&F&Supernatural— any story that inspires wonder— in all formats: novels, short stories, movies, shows, comics etc.…Falling in love with stories saved me from a life of crime (I’m only sort of kidding; it did save me from something). A lot of my main characters are adopted. Like them, I was adopted. I seem to write often about identity. I live in Austin, Texas. I have no horses or cowboy hats. I do have a 120 pound sheep dog. I’ve taught college and worked a lot of different jobs and lived in a number of cities. I have a black belt in Taekwondo. Helps with my action scenes. I’m married. I love writing novels (published 14 or so-some traditionally, more independently) and stories (have published over 15 stories), but I like writing most anything. My grocery lists are excellent.
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Some reasons I liked it include: female characters that are badass, mythical monsters, a bisexual teenage boy, a character with birth parents and *real* parents, characters that are realistically complex (not all, but the main ones), and a story that has blurry good guy/bad guy lines.
I did not love that the story is riddled with guns, but I accepted it as a way that this parallel universe is.
Many parts were silly, and in some places that was ok; but the worst part to be silly was the ending, which was silly and sloppy and definitely not as clever as the clever parts. Most of the characters were one dimensional and boring; except for the main character, Romeo, and his friend, Carlos, who were only vaguely more filled out. In all, a shabby story with weak characters, mish mashed world building, and high school English class level plotting, development, and complexity. It's only saving grace from a one star rating, were the few flashes of cleverness.