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Deadly Assessments by Drew Hayes

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The Fred the Vampire Accountant series was practically my introduction to Drew Hayes, one of my current favorites. It’s also one of the very few series in which I actually enjoy first-person narration. Deadly Assessments is installment number five, and while many things remain the same, there are some distinct differences. The novel is still structured as a series of closely related short stories, and short stories are not my favorite genre, but these I like. In this case, the adventures pick up right where the last novel left off, with Fred’s newly created House of Fred at the center […]

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6/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

The fine line between the game and life

Siege Tactics by Drew Hayes

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I have greatly enjoyed everything I have read by Drew Hayes. I even taught one of his novels this past spring semester; I plan to keep it. I enjoyed Siege Tactics, but it just seemed to lack a little something, like the usual sparkle of fun that everything else by Hayes that I’ve read. So, even if what follows seems like a list of complaints, which it kind of is, just to be clear, I really did enjoy this book. It just was slightly a teensy wee little bit less awesome as the rest of Hayes’ canon. I think the […]

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5/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

All great journeys start with a single step

Pears and Perils by Drew Hayes

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This is one of the first novels that Drew Hayes wrote, and like all of his other work it is completely different from his other stuff.  The basic premise is that three people have won a cash prize and an all-expense-paid vacation from a burger joint contest. The catch is that the money and  “vacation” is in exchange for the winners to be in a promo commercial for their new “Island Burger.” They are supposed to participate in a local island ritual to release a trapped god.  No one thought the ritual would succeed. It did… sort of… Our three […]

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5/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

You think you know a guy…

Second Hand Curses by Drew Hayes

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Once again, Drew Hayes has come up with something completely different from his previous work.  This has more of a detective story, well, detective vignettes that come together. So kind of like his Fred, The Vampire Accountant set up.  But we’re in the realms of fairy tales this time.  And it feels a lot darker than his other stuff. The writing brings to mind the old noir detective stories, you know, the ones where you see the silhouette of the guy smoking a cigarette and usually some lovely lady in distress coming to ask for help.  But one of the […]

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3/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

All good things must come to an end

Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes

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This book is a kind of bittersweet, in that it’s the last one in the main series.  It’s a crazy long four books (well, five if you count the spinoff**) and it truly is the end of a journey.  We’ve seen these characters grow from immature teens to adults who are willing to make tough decisions, and who are tangled in things far beyond them.  The four years (or more) you spend at college change who you are as a person, and we get to see that through these books.   A few times characters acknowledge their growth.  They go […]

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8/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Lucky 13 and Heroes are still fun

Corpies by Drew Hayes

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Usually by this point with an author, I’ve gotten bored/annoyed or they’ve gotten predictable. This is Drew Hayes book number 13 for me, and no author fatigue in sight. The only other author I can think of with this kind of reading record for me is Terry Pratchett. Drew Hayes is not Sir Terry, but not in a bad way. Even though Corpies is set in the same world as Super Powereds, and includes some character crossover, there’s still enough new characters and situations that it remains an entertaining and fun riff on the superhero genre. Much like the Super […]

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7/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Awesome, but not my favorite Drew Hayes

Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes

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And so we embark on another journey into the strange world that is Drew Hayes’ imagination.  How this guy can come up with so many different, yet complete universes boggles the mind. This one is similar, on paper at least, to his Super Powereds universe.  But it’s very different in some very key ways.   Like in Super Powereds, we have people with abilities.  These people are called metahumans, or metas. Metas can be formed in different ways.  They can gain powers during an accident or by touching a magical object. They can be born during a special event called […]

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7/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Don’t ignore the preface of this entertaining monster mash-up

The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes

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The Fangs of Freelance continues with the entertaining story of Fred the Vampire Accountant and his friends who include alchemists, zombies, mages, therians, a dragon, a sentient house, and some unknowns. This stuff began and continues to be a fun riff on monster-type fantasy fiction. It also plays with the supernatural crime-fighting organization, which gets more attention in this book as we actually get to see Fred go through his interview and skills test to become a contract-based accountant for the Agency where Krystal (demon-contracted girlfriend) and Arch (who knows what for sure) both work. There’s also an emphasis in […]

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6/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:34 |


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