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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061370908
ISBN: 0061370908
Label: HarperEntertainment
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Sales Rank: 51440
Studio: HarperEntertainment
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Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it.
Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon suspect are based on the creepy stories of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Their investigation leads them to the center of one of Poe's horror classics, face-to-face with their most terrifying foe yet. And if Sam and Dean don't rewrite the ending of this chilling tale, a grisly serial killer will end their lives forevermore.
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Rating:  - Read Witch's Canyon instead
Wow, where to start? While DeCandido isn't a bad writer exactly, he isn't great and this novel is not good. The characterizations are broad and shallow without any of the subtleties or relationship elements that make the brotherhood work on the screen. They come across as ignorant (Dean can't use his own cell phone, has never heard of Edgar Allen Poe and doesn't know what a forward is in soccer; Sam has never watched a movie in his life, or a TV apparently), petty, mean, bickering, stupid, unprofessional and incompetent. Every character is written on a 7th grade level and humor is inserted in places where it shouldn't be, which sucks any pathos or tragedy out of all of it, especially from the rather stupid ghost. The ghost doesn't meld with the rest of the plot and the incidentals between the supernatural don't meld with the supernatural story. The author uses italics constantly to emphasize pronunciation and the effect is as if a bunch of high school valley girls have possessed every one in the book, our heroes included. It's pitched too young for most of us and yet there's too much talk of sex and too much gore for kids. The boys blaspheme constantly (which they don't do in the show.) He's created nicknames for the characters that they've never said (and never would) and he has them use phrases they'd never say (imagine either Winchester saying "Exqueeze me". Please.) He over-explains things all fans know, within dialogue, which is a lazy and bumpy way to introduce exposition yet he leaves out ... Read More
Rating:  - Exactly What It Should Be...FUN and ENTERTAINING! : )
If you're a fan of the show, this is PERFECT FOR YOU, as it was for me.
Great Fun, and Exactly what I would expect it to be. I was like reading an episode instead of watching it, (and no commercials!).
Set in Brooklyn and written by Brooklyn boy Keith DeCandido, Keith brings forth a knowledge and emotion of the city that adds a richness to the story.
An aspect to the book form of the show, that you CAN'T get from the television episodes, is the availability to get more insite into Sam & Dean, as well as the new characters in the story, adding to the all around perspective.
I read very slowly, and finished this book in 3 days, (which is a record for me), and that's only reading during my commute and at lunch times at the office. For those who read at normal or faster speed you could easily finish it in less than a day.
PS: At the back of the book, Keith added a list of songs he listened to while writing, and reccommends it as a listening background, so the book actually has a soundtrack, including that ever faithful Supernatrul fave Back In Black, (but you gotta have all the songs, or just make your own list!). I found this a really fun and enjoyable addition to the book...(by-the-time the music is over for you fast readers you'll probably be done with the book!).
Enjoy!
Rating: - If a Fan, Don't Read
I love the supernatural tv series, though at times it can be a bit dark with the violence scenes. This is the second book from the supernatural book series, and surprisingly it's even worst than the first one. At least in Witch Canyon the author didn't start making rather wild assumptions about the characters. I think anybody who watched the tv show knows Sam's too much of a trauma character to start saying good things about their father unless it's to make Dean feel better. The main female oc added in this book was too mary sue. The main guy oc Pym annoyed me especially. If you like the show do yourself a favor, don't read any of the books. I also really hated the Roxy case and Manferd. Also the author used outside information involved in the tvshow that the characters themselves don't know about. The author has Dean talk or think about the Reaper from when he was in the hospital, but after Dean wakes up he doesn't remember anything from when he was sleeping. The author should have watched the tv show.
Rating:  - UGH!
When I first purchased this, I was so excited to have a tie-in novel for Supernatural--but as others have said, it quickly wore off. I found myself literally skipping many pages out of plain boredom. Besides the fact that we spent way too much time on meaningless points, I didn't find the characters all that well contrived. I mean, Dean not being able to drive the Bronx? Are you kidding me? And Sam came off as a prig at times.
Also, like others have said, given the place and time at which this was supposed to have occurred, it lacked a seriousness and depth one would expect from the boys at this time. But, hey, we spent most of the time teasing and flirting instead.
Nope, Dean's not nearly as dumb as this and Sam's not quite so disdainful of his brother. I sure hope the next tie-in this writer writes is better or I will most certainly avoid spending my hard-earned money on a poorly written, one-dimensional, not the least bit creepy Ode to My Home Town.
Scoff at fan fiction if you like, people, but several fan fic writers write the boys truer and with better, more interesting plots than this guy AND they're FREE.
If you're looking for the complex characters of Sam and Dean Winchester, you won't find it here...nor will you find an exciting case file, either.
Rating: - Sucks!
I am so glad I didn't buy this book, instead I borrowed it from my local library and what a piece of trash it is. I think the author, Keith whatever, seemed to only watch maybe two or three episodes of SPN before he wrote this book. As a huge fan of the show and a writer of SPN fan fiction this book is a huge disappointment and a crappy outlook on the show. It was so boring and I only urged myself to keep reading on because it was about Sam and Dean. The first bit of action doesn't happen until long after 150th page, except for a small and stupid bit in the beginning with an orangutan,??? oookay. The plots were meaningless and the book is basically a map of the Bronx. If I wanted to read about the Bronx Keith I would get a NYC brochure. I honestly can't believe that he's writing another SPN novel, Bone Key. If it's anything like this one, I'm not wasting my money on it. Now if you want to read a good and a real outlook on SPN, read Jeff Mariotte's book Witch's Canyon, it's awesome.
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