Drew Hayes

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Second Hand Curses by Drew Hayes

March 3, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

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 | crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:16 |

All good things must come to an end

Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes

August 1, 2018 by crystalclear 3 Comments

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 […]

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

Lucky 13 and Heroes are still fun

Corpies by Drew Hayes

July 27, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

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 […]

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

Awesome, but not my favorite Drew Hayes

Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes

July 5, 2018 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

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

The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes

June 5, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

An Anatomy of Drew Hayes, but also review of Going Rogue

Going Rogue by Drew Hayes

June 4, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

There are 3 kinds of Drew Hayes books: a) the novels that as complete books are 600+ pages long, have short chapters, and are fairly episodic (ie Super Powereds), b) the novels that are structured more like novels with chapter longer than 1-2 pages and not epic in length (Spells, Swords, & Stealth), and c) the novels that are average in length (under 300 pages) and set up like a series of short stories (Fred the Vampire Accountant). While some of the distinctions come from some titles being originally web-novels while others are traditionally published, one of the more interesting […]

6/4/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:33 |

A Little Too Classic but Still Fun

Super Powereds Year Four by Drew Hayes

May 27, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I finished Super Powereds Year Four a while ago, but I’m only just now getting to reviewing it. I think part of that was life, but more I think it was that I needed to get over the somewhat cliché ending in which everyone good has paired off and leads the lives they probably always wanted (mostly). I’m glad the surviving good guys and gals got happy endings, but everyone living their exact dreams with the person they were obviously meant to be with since Book 1 was a little bit of a let-down creatively. Seeing the actual graduation would […]

5/27/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:32 |

Games Begin and Games Continue, and All is Well.

Split the Party by Drew Hayes

May 19, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

You really can’t go wrong with Drew Hayes. While I haven’t read quite everything he’s ever written, I’ve read more than one of each of his novel series (I think). I’m working on getting caught up, but then there’s the problem or having to wait until the next thing is published. Villain’s Code, Super Powereds, and even the Fred series to some extent all deal with focusing on contemporary world hero ensembles. Split the Party though is a little different. It’s still a group of various good guys (and girl), but it goes back and forth between the ‘real’ world […]

5/19/2018 CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:28 |

MsWas on It’s not you… it’s me.This is a great review - excellent job of laying out the good and bad in the novel and showing who this book is for,...
GetoffmyLawnn on An Effervescent RomanceI am so HERE for this, for all the reasons you listed and that I need to read a good romantic kissing book, I feel...
Orleanas on Right there with yaOf the three Rowell books I've read(ATTACHMENTS, ELEANOR & PARK, and FANGIRL), FANGIRL is definitely my least favorite. I thought it dragged and Cath was...
Orleanas on It’s official: I ain’t got no coothIt's always interesting to hear/read someone else's perspective on a book that you, yourself, absolutely love. I read FRANKENSTEIN a few years ago for the...
liz on “But Ma used to say, not everyone circles the same sun. I never knew what she meant by that until Monday went missing.”I agree,I think Allegedly was much more of a gut-punch