{"id":5084,"date":"2015-01-29T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T19:15:21","slug":"charming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5084","title":{"rendered":"Charming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charming<\/a><\/em> (2013) Elliott James<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Charming\"<\/a>I almost gave up on this. I read the short stories and enjoyed them, but a third of the way in, the story still wasn’t doing it for me.<\/p>\n

Again, it was wanting a sense of accomplishment and a curiosity as to how things turned out that kept me reading, and I have to say that about halfway through something changed, and I was suddenly into the story.<\/p>\n

John Charming was born both a werewolf and a Knight Templar. These sides don’t get along particularly well, but they do make him very good at killing monsters, something he’s kept doing, even though he is no longer formally a member of the order.<\/p>\n

I didn’t find him interesting until the second half of the book. Before then I was more interested in the humans he ends up temporarily working with.<\/p>\n

The African American man the van belonged to turned out to be a guy named Chauncey Childers whose parents had obviously combined a love of alliteration with a hatred of small children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there’s also Molly, the Episcopal priest. I really liked Molly.<\/p>\n

There were some things done that were different from what I was expecting, but for the most part it felt like a decent by overall average supernatural fantasy.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Orbit <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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