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stacynoe's review
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is a (relatively) lighthearted look at drug use and poverty. Mr. Marsh is a meth user living in a storage unit. Does he recognize the issues in his life? Absolutely. Will he change them? Nope. Part of the problem is, he's a magic user that uses the drugs to fuel his magic. And at least he' Trying to be a better person, even though it sometimes backfires on him (OK, often).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Drug abuse
madarauchiha's review
adventurous
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
3.5
✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨
A fun interesting story about impoverished magician who uses hard drugs and solves local mysteries by choice and because some government agency forces him to. Not my thing personally, but it's humorous and well written. I sought out this book because I read something from this author in the anthology Journals of Horror: Found Fiction edited by Terry M. West . Spoiler for the anthology, but it was one of the few stories that was well written and I enjoyed reading.
The first story sets up the characters and works pretty well. The second story is very heartwarming, to a degree, no pun intended. The characters feel a little flat but I can brush that aside and attribute that to the MC not especially caring about others. I do like the little history injected into the worldsetting, about the various family names that been there for generations.
First story.
A man deals with a strange phenomenon that is causing drought in a five mile radius.
minor cancer, medical content, infidelity,
medium vomit, pregnancy, miscarriage,
major violence, body horror, alcoholism, police, confinement, drug use, vomit
Second story.
The MC offers to find a young man's missing mother.
minor arson, fire,demolition, murder, domestic abuse,
medium sexual content, drug abuse, lesbophobia, whorephobia,
major violence, religion christianity, murder, death, drowning, fire, house fires, medical content,
A fun interesting story about impoverished magician who uses hard drugs and solves local mysteries by choice and because some government agency forces him to. Not my thing personally, but it's humorous and well written. I sought out this book because I read something from this author in the anthology Journals of Horror: Found Fiction edited by Terry M. West . Spoiler for the anthology, but it was one of the few stories that was well written and I enjoyed reading.
The first story sets up the characters and works pretty well. The second story is very heartwarming, to a degree, no pun intended. The characters feel a little flat but I can brush that aside and attribute that to the MC not especially caring about others. I do like the little history injected into the worldsetting, about the various family names that been there for generations.
First story.
A man deals with a strange phenomenon that is causing drought in a five mile radius.
minor cancer, medical content, infidelity,
medium vomit, pregnancy, miscarriage,
major violence, body horror, alcoholism, police, confinement, drug use, vomit
Second story.
The MC offers to find a young man's missing mother.
minor arson, fire,demolition, murder, domestic abuse,
medium sexual content, drug abuse, lesbophobia, whorephobia,
major violence, religion christianity, murder, death, drowning, fire, house fires, medical content,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and Vomit
Moderate: Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Vomit
Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Medical content, and Murder
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