Supernatural

Nevermore (Supernatural)

mass market paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published Aug. 1, 2007 by HarperEntertainment.

ISBN:
978-0-06-137090-8
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OCLC Number:
163575905

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Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it.Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon suspect are based on the creepy stories of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe.Their investigation leads them to the center …

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This was a book I wanted to like more than I did. Getting to see the Winchesters in New York City was fun. Sam bitching about the only open spaces being blocked off by fire hydrants while trying to find parking in the Bronx, just like I do in Brooklyn, was very familiar, and totally understandable. Yet the characterizations never quite clicked, and the internal monologues just didn’t feel right. It was close, but…

Another issue with the story is that the mysteries that they end up dealing with fall flat. The main one turns out to not actually be supernatural, while the one that is is left sloppily unfinished. While I get that one of the benefits of media tie in books is that they can flex and even break out of the mold that the shows they’re based on have set up, maybe the first book isn’t the …

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Subjects

  • American Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Horror
  • Movie / TV Tie-Ins
  • Science Fiction
  • Movie-TV Tie-In - General
  • Occult
  • Fiction / Movie or Television Tie-In
  • Science Fiction - General