Soccer mom and demon fighter Barbara Everette is back in an intricately interwoven monster noir thriller, the sequel to bestselling Princess of Wands.
Barbara Everette has a problem. It seems Janea, Barbara’s assistant and the Foundation for Love and Universal Faith’s best operative, has been thrown into a coma by some very nasty magic she’s stirred up. Barbara must track down the perpetrators and break the spell or Janea’s soul will be forever lost on the astral plane. Oh, and if she can’t break the spell, zombies will destroy all mankind.
Meanwhile, Janea, a high-dollar call girl, stripper and High Priestess of Freya when she isn’t fighting demons, must contend with a spiritual journey of her own. Where to locate one’s true inner essence? At a science fiction convention, of course. But when rescuers pursue Janea into her vision of a geeky alternate reality, we find this is one science fiction convention where the Guest of Honor could turn out to be Death Himself.
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Product ReviewThis made my day when at the end of the first book there was a visit from two iconic tv show characters. John Ringo, you are the greatest and have made my summer very enjoyable.
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Product ReviewI reread the first book then this one so that I could enjoy the plot and characters better. I am a fan of John Ringo's work but PoW was not my favorite. Queen of Wands was much bettter. The characters were more familiar in a second story or the plot was more developed. I have to say that I am looking forward to the next book and it was an excellent cliffhanger at the end.
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Product ReviewI'm a sucker for comparative religion and theology anyway, so the somewhat didactic passages regarding free will and other doctrine didn't really bother me.
The only thing that DID was the ending of the early release. Now I have to pony up for the eBook and find out if I missed anything.Posted on
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Product ReviewCome on Ringo, you can do better than that. The "exposition of belief" (good term that) is not a problem, especially since the belief being exposed is somewhat less stupid that mainstream bible thumping. Except at the end, where it's just plain boring.
The main problem is that Barb has been Mary-Sued into boringness. She can do everything, nothing can touch her. Booooooring. The only dead people are redshirts and considered as such, while Ringo was previously known for not being afraid to be hard on the main cast. In this one, not a scratch. No real opposition either, it's either mass-produced cookie-cutters second rate villains easily dispatched by Our Great Heroes, or indestructible Big Bad. Boooooooooooooooring.
While the author has a real love of superpowered heroes, he usually handles them well by various means, sometimes even putting them in the background like in the Troy series. This time, it's a failure. Please Ringo, you can do *much* better than that.
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Product ReviewI had to examine my initial reaction to a fantasy book with so much Christian theology in it. Even though I was raised in a "conservative religious environment", I intensely dislike being preached at. But, the exposition of belief in this book is no more intense than that found in most of the fantasy books that I've read. This book may not be for everyone. It demands as much elasticity of thought as Book III does of some of its characters. However, I found this a very enjoyable read with some ideas that were actually thought-provoking.
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Product ReviewIf you liked the first book, then this is worth a read, but it's not as good as the first. If you didn't like the first one, then I wouldn't even try with this one, you'll hate it. (a 2.5 would be about what I'd really rate this)
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Product ReviewNo, I haven't read it, but it's a Ringo, and it's book two of the Wands series, of course it's going to be a five star story! ^.^
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