Blood Debt Wizard Creed Book 2 edition by N P MARTIN Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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My name is Creed, and while being a wizard has its perks, sometimes it sucks worse than a werewolf in a spelling bee.
Getting into serious debt with an A-hole demon named Baal is one of those times.
Baal wants me to find a witch for him, a woman he wants his claws in, and who he cannot locate himself, despite all of his powers. If I refuse to find this witch, the demon has promised I will suffer the consequences, as will my girlfriend, Leona.
Only thing is, I don’t think this witch is half as bad as Baal is making out. Which means I might end up helping her instead, in the process risking eternal punishment for both myself and Leona. Then I would have to go up against one of the most powerful demons in the Underworld. Which, you know, would just be totally insane.
But then insanity is a speciality of mine, and if I want to save everyone, I might need to go deeper into the darkness than I’ve ever gone before.
If you like Jim Butcher, M.D. Massey, or Patricia Briggs, then you will LOVE the second installment of the Wizard's Creed Urban Fantasy Action Adventure Series.
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Blood Debt Wizard Creed Book 2 edition by N P MARTIN Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Like these books, very entertaining. Great characters, especially Creed and Blaze. I also liked the way Barney was introduced to the story. Ray and Sanaka are great secondary characters. My biggest negative are the editing errors. I will be zooming along, then, boom! What just happened? My only complaint. You should be able to give half a star. I don't want to detract from the writing, better than average. Better editing please. Distracts from the story. Should be 4 & 1/2 stars. One off isn't right.
There are some things that you grow to expect when certain things are mentioned. For instance, when someone says a playground most often people will think of children, or if someone said fairytale maybe Cinderella comes to mind.
So in my mind if an author paints the picture of a fairly old sorcerer that has been trained under a more competent and powerfull sorcerer, I expect some level of capability under duress. Of course, I say this while coupling our main characters "training" with the experience hes obtained when solving the majority of cases hes mentions quite frequently throughout books one and two.
My problem with this story mainly stems from the few inconsistancies with his level of magic, his level of experience when dealing with catastrophic issues, and the logic and motive that goes into the choices made by the characters in the book. (potentional spoilers; beware)
I found myself asking the following
1. "How is it that our main character has supposedly been through many supernatural events in the past, and yet it seems as if he is always ill Prepared or incapable of putting together a plan?"
This happened a few times - once with the encounter of werewolves, and again when it came time to face off against his demonic foe. Time and time again, he leans, far to often on his mentor to be called a graduated sorcerer. He seems more Codependent, than self-reliant, not that there is anything wrong with a MC getting help, just that it seems to happen on a regular end of the world bases. Makes me wonder if he can handle anything himself.
2. "Where on earth did the sudden resonation come from with his captor?"
At one point when he was held hostage, stripped of all power and capability to ward himself against his captors magic as well as her feminine wiles, *rolls eyes* our MC comes to a point where he apologizes for the wrongdoing that his captor had endured, even though said captor was clearly at fault for their own misfortune. My major gripe concerning the witch is the change of heart he has with expense of his supposed "love" on the line. Though, after their frivolous entanglement it seems hard to believe that from a readers standpoint, because of how casually he speaks to her in the afterglow of the moment, as well as how far he is willing to go for this person suffering a Karmic retribution due to their lust for power (with the glaring red flags of him not knowing her or if she is speaking the truth, and his lover life on the line should he chose to aid or sympathize with her).
"So, where did that power go?"
While he was in the strong hold of his captor his power just *proofed*. Hmm seems a plan should have been used, maybe if the MC used all of that "prior experience hunting people and things" thing wouldn't go amuck quite so often.....
I could honestly go on but that would make this an essay. I'll hope the third installment is better.
Who says you can't drought your sorrows, or drink your problems, or did it have something to do with your emotions... dolt, its probably not the best time to ask Creed. If you do ask him, he'll tell you... he was walking a damn straight line, thankyou very much, it was every other bastard that kept changing directions just so they could bump shoulders and piss him off some more. If the sidewalk he seemed to be spending an inordinate length of time kissing had anything to say about it, it'd tell you Creed was well and truly drunk as a skunk, Creed had made a right meal out of walking home from the bar where Baal had conveniently been present.
Bloody demons, never could do anything for nothing, even if it benefited them or not. Every dog has its price, and hopefully this one would have its day. Creed sure hoped to be their when it comes to Baal's turn. If lady luck went his way, something she wasn't overly inclined to do of late, then Creed would be there with all the bells and whistles; hopefully driving the Baal brigade.
A certain sorcerer who'd prefer to remain nameless even on a good day, is obviously struggling with what the world needed him to do. The curse of true heroes is that they do what must be done, only to go and punish themselves for having done so. True heroism comes from doing something you absolutely do not want to do, but you do it anyway because you both have no choice, and are the only person currently able to do it. Even when justice is being served and when the tormentors become the tormented, heroes don't brag or look for accolades. No, they go out and punish themselves in case they hadn't already been punished enough. And because as much a s it was or is the right thing to do, they can do nothing to resist the sense of guilt and to take the benefits of hindsight to micro-analyse their actions until the become the cause.
Creed's outward picture paints a sorcerer being pissed off royally by a certain demon, but ultimately its his actions that are leaving him raw and open like a deep gash from a sharp blade. Things that are buried without acceptance can pack the greatest punches, especially when they're unearthed without your knowledge. Its those sneaky times when they force resolution whether we want it or not, that they have the biggest capacity to make us hate ourselves, but its only those with goodness who reach those conclusions. Should you again decide to ignore them then you better be prepared to face ruination, because if they come back again its an all but foregone conclusion. As they say, the dead don't stay buried forever. So the past being what it is, its the recently present that torments Creed's soul. Images of Mr. Black begging for mercy right before Creed destroyed his soul. Keeping him from being able to torment the rest of their family in the afterlife, or finding some obscure way to return and carry out some torrid revenge assuring what Creed had been forced into. The things he couldn't yet file away.
Uncle Ray has come to town. A bitter person would be asking where he was when his brother was hellbent on destroying Earth and humankind. Especially when good old Uncle Ray admits to thinking his brother capable of killing his nephew and the rest of humanity with him. Watching him navigate his environment without doing much in the way of physical output, relying on his magic almost entirely, its easy to consider him some sort of Gandolph on crack; or maybe Dumbledore in the same situation, instead. Either way, and in contrast to the leeway Creed's prepared to afford him, its easy to get caught up thinking its a case of, too little too late. For a man capable of such sage its a wonder how he can miss the so obvious things staring him in the face. Ray has always found the alternate dimensions more attractive than the one of his birth.
With this in context perhaps the fairer analogy is as an absent-minded professor. His faith in Creed as a Master Mage is present but still you would expect backup to have been a concern. Ray's knowledge of demons and their names ratchets one of Creed's current anxieties up far enough to completely distract from his father though, which isn't such a bad idea. When someone explains to you that the demon you got into bed with is the one other demons fear, you must know that it takes precedence over every other thing. The vague payment of finding Baal's missing person just got exponentially worsened. At least Ray could finally give Creed some concrete answers. Baal being spawned by two entities known as the Things That Should Not Be, couldn't be more ominous except if they were the ones Creed owed.
With enough emotional baggage to climb several times his height, claiming Creed's thoughts when he's idle for more than a few moments, he looks to the things in his life to provide the necessary distraction he needs. Leona's absence for work seems to prompt some home truths he's not willing to entertain. As usual Ray's company is fleeting, he only seemed to have stopped by because he had business in the area. Therefore its work that he turns to in order to get away from the walls of the Sanctum that are closing in on his soul. Blaez is mostly still layed up after his revival from death during Creed's confrontation with Mr. Black, a.k.a. Christopher Creed, his father erroneously thought to be dead.
Still holding onto the objectified concept of his father being Mr. Black, Ray notices what Creed is likely unable to recognise at this stage; using Mr. Black is a crux in which Creed can examine events without it beingabout his father. Who is now properly so, so much for turning his mind to other affairs. Not wanting to face where the contract with Baal will take him yet, but also inexorably distracted by it, he turns to a job left undone. Forsythe the vampire has been burgled, and wants his flash drive back from the responsible werewolfs who carried out the theft. Taking Creed by surprise is the awareness of a type of friendship there.
So it is that Creed's next hassles, after dealing with Baal's requirements should they finally arrive, would come to be associated with the Red Hill Gang (RHG). Essentially a MC styled werewolf pack of petty criminals ranging in black stains on their CV and souls that begin with theft, moving up in scale to the more serious GTA, armed robbery and the recent kidnapping and murder of a high ranking vamp. Forsyth's accounts manager, friend, and one-time acquaintance of Creed, their part in Marcus's murder is tantamount to an act of war. Had the Crimson Crow (Angela) not been trying to get elected to Blackham City's urban spread of politicians, soldiers would've been corralled and sent out to wipe the 'mutts' from their occupance of Red Hill.
With Forsyth's hands metaphorically tied behind his back by Angela, its Creed who Forsyth turns to, to call in an owed favour, and have him teach the mutts a lesson after retrieving his encrypted files. Not expecting the mutts to have a full collective brain between them, Forsyth is less worried over the security of his drive than he is with teaching an appropriate lesson commensurate with the orchestrated murder of a friend. The only reservations Creed has resides in the severity of penalty, and his surprise given from his knowledge of Blackham that dictates the RHG keep to themselves. Nonetheless a debt is a debt.
Among paranormals (a.k.a. supes) this principle has always kept it's honour between supernatural races that opt toward mutual respect and the benevolence associated with the barter contracts that keep them from engaging in all out war. Its just the way it is and it's convention has existed since before the things that go bump in the night had lived their lives from the shadows of anonymity. Without adherence to the few conventions there actually are, then there'd be no rest from the traditional prejudices and the ways that see inter-racial conflicts become the repeated tearing of the throats out of your enemies. That's not to say that frenemies don't occur, its just that they're either completely shrouded in questions without answers of who dunnit, or they're swept under the rug.
Creed's retrieval went pretty smoothly, as things go. Unfortunately however, the alpha, Big Joe, figured what he held was worth enough for his own barter to complete. Not strictly in the position of absolute power Creed was thus finding himself taking the completion of another favour. In this new work venture he finds that he needs to identify and possibly remove a hex from Joe's cousin. The wolf in question is known to sometimes get a little rough during his bedroom exploits. With a preference for witches, 'mistakingly' getting rough can be something coming back threefold. The witch in question has moved on meaning he might need to move backwards to get to the bottom of this new job.
Right as he finally was able to retrieve and return the drive, getting handed another favour to be able to complete the previous favour, he'd get home only to find the original favour owner of the one in which he was trying to avoid, was revealed by the owner's arse being parked in his lounge room chair resding one of the darkest tomes in Sanctum; one that should never have been left out. Closing off his mind to it and Baal's collective darkness and how they both wanted Creed to give into the sorts of dark power he'd had to pull in and channel in order to defeat and defend against Mr. Black, Ray's chastise over Creed having read from it, to say nothing of leaving it unprotected from falling into the wrong hands, echoes with the ringing of said events in less than twenty-four hours from when Ray had told him.
The events of just the past day or two work to highlight the precarious and volatile nature of the currency that keeps the world of supes running on the thinly flowing oil of favours are doing their best to tie Creed's hands so that he is left with the prospects of putting friends and possibly even a loved one, if he took the time to admit that love was the connection he tries to deny, then once again Creed is being forced into doing something he would refuse wholeheartedly if it weren't for the danger to respective friends. In explaining the debt owed to Baal by Creed, the demon himself takes the opportunity to spell out the ramifications of Creed not going through with their verbal contract. The last sentence he ever wanted to hear is plainly put forward by Baal do his job to the letter as Baal has stated or he'll extract Leona's soul to forever be kept in the darkest most tortuous corner of Hell to exist in perpetual punishment for eternity. Despite not knowing whether to think of Margot Celeste, witch extraordinaire, as a putz or a smart woman of respect for being able to slip from Baal's grasp he did know that it was either serve her up to a fate awaiting Leona if he didn't.
Creed's scruples might've permitted a decision to accept his punishment in lieu of doing something against his principles with the witch Baal wants him to find and return to him, but with Leona's existence in jeopardy his options just got reduced to only the sole option of doing as he must. Mayhaps it was going to be Baal's intention all along to have Creed complete a task that would blacken his soul and turn him toward a path of serving the darkness. It is after all the purpose for beings like Baal to have been created, and more generally the role of demons.
Now he must seek out a witch who Baal has described as having reniged on a deal, all the while Baal claiming that emotions are the area of expertise astringently adhered to by weaker beings and yet the ire and sense of betrayal linked to something more than just the breaking of a contract flashes in the back of Baal's eyes. The distinct impression is one of a betrayal of the heart, and yet the demon lord himself claims no affections have ever entered into his existence. Creed's original sentiment that this would be a terrible turning point, the day he was finally given the details of the Blood Debt, could only have ever scratched the surface of what was to come about from his involvement with Baal so you'd best go get your second Sorcerer's Creed novel so you can see for yourself.
Best use of magic ever when Creed tells the story of Uncle Ray using his magic to compel toilet paper to wipe his arse for him. I can't help thinking he needs to invest in a bidet. Although I guess both methods keep the risk of contaminating his favourite reading place at a minimum. What is it with guys on the bogger, most don't read at all; but of those who don't many will read on the toilet, go figure. With Creed now well known through his adventures with Mr. Black and the Crimson Crow, his exploits are settling in as part of the man he is and as part of Blackham City's sprawl of supes. One of the benefits of having multiple books/stories in a series is the way readers can commune with them as though they were taking on a life of their own. Being able to predict and understand reactions is what makes them the equivalent of a multimedia friend, perhaps even more so again as an actual long known living friend. But it takes a certain calibre of writing skill to bring these people from the pages to the visage that is your life, a phenomena definitely present in Neal's books.
This addition to Sorcerer's Creed has the complexity of having many balls in the air. If the juggler doesn't keep track of the how and the where, they can all come crashing down, or collide before they reach their zennith, in a spectacular mess of unfinished business and missed connections. With nine paranormal and urban fantasy publications produced from within two simultaneously similar and different worlds, Neal again shows his capacities to keep the story rolling with a pace that doesn't out-sprint the meaning and understanding of the content to get readers from a to z, but which keeps you at times needing to release the breath you didn't know you were holding in. It won't be long before double figures are reached and exceeded, with releases reaching impressive yearly quotas indicative of a writer dedicating hours to the daily grind of never-ending word limits, taking weekly totals into the region of what must be thousands of words. But never seeing in the finished fine tuned products words printed for the sake of words.
With such hefty limits that must be necessary to release at these rates there's obviously the rigid technical minimums that must be obtained and exceeded if the end results are to be comprehensive in mapping out the key elements of creating not just a well founded plot, but also the interesting content and language that carries you through. And it goes without saying that therein are the characters whose lives you want and need to know more of, and the places where the events of the things that go bump in the night carry through to your imaginations in a splendid combination of narrative and spoken words. I've reads hundreds of fantasy novels and each time I finish a Neal P. Martin story I'm surprised yet again that this authors novels are cracking the glass roofs of standards carrying them into the calibre of stories where I would expect bestsellers and top one-hundreds, etcetera, to be listed. Then I see through one means or another that my expectations are not always reached or maintained and I can only fathom that it must be exposure and hitting the right reader attentions, because it certainly isn't the stories, the characters, or the techniques that could explain the missing link. Hence, I recommend you not only get his books but that you also help make his name known on the TBR lists of fellow readers you know.
I have an intimate awareness of the urban environments Neal has constructed in his two series to-date. If you were to read ten books containing demons (among other supes of course) its likely that around nine will speak of the Underworld, viewing it as a dimension that's simply become associated with the connotations of Hell as mundane or religious humans have come to know it as, or as simply an alternate place where crestures of darkness, evil or not, choose to spend their time in a place where they don't have to glamour who they are. But the kicker of this thread, and the reason I mention it, is that few will actually take on the challenge of envisioning the former version of the Underworld as in the context of Hell in the mind's of readers, fire and brimstone being incidental. A dark place that breeds fear with the demons and other sorts of monstrosities that create the feelings of peril and outright fear even in exclusion to the specific demons taking the story there. It seems to be a challenge that is purposely written out of most storylines, whether it be a purposeful decision by the respective authors or not.
I can highlight that this is the norm, where only two to three actual contents of the ten aforementioned standard book numbers will take on the challenge, but only one in ten, at most, will rise to the challenge of constructing the meaning to bring the worse imaginative version of the Underworld or we so often see overlooked. This isn't true of Neal's two sprawls. In both the Watchers Series and now Sorcerer's Creed, Neal has risen to the challenge and nailed it on both occasions. His two key protagonists have ventured where few narratives take readers, in so doing readers are afforded the imaginative flavours found in very few books. It is my opinion that unless you've managed to find a big enough range to delve into all the zones of urban fantasy environments then you're incomplete in one of the experiences we aim to achieve when reading to venture into places our imaginations help in travelling, and doing all the things we otherwise couldn't. Ergo, you only need to read Neal's two series to find at least two such experiences, missed by so many other books. Another five star read without a doubt, and perhaps the events that'll become one of the greatest shapers of August Creed's life.
Great read I am a fan!
Good follow up to the first in the series. Enjoyed the adventure. Fun reading, very earthy language, but fits the story.
Creed , Ray, Sanaka, Blaez, Barney , Margot, Leona their daily lives are complicated by relationships magic , and Baal. Fast paced and surprisingly touching at times, a fun read, engrossing
These books are so good! I've read all of them! Read read read! So worth it! I love urban fantasy and this one is excellent sucks you right in from the first page...
The name of the wolf changed was he driving a Cadillac or a Lincoln it changed during the story. It was actually a good story.
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