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Nephilim Rising #3
Hell's Legacy
In a city where magic festers beneath the surface and monsters stalk the shadows, someone has to fight for the innocent....
They call me wizard, fixer, finder, but mostly they call me Creed. Been hexed by a witch? Being stalked by a werewolf? Haunted by a crazy ghost? I’m the one you call to get my hands dirty, so you don’t have to.
So when I got a call from a grieving parent to find their missing daughter, I was happy to help. But what started out as another garden variety missing persons case, has now turned into something much weirder and much more deadly. Now I find myself being hunted by a crazy serial killer bent on summoning eldritch abominations from beyond the stars. And as if that’s not enough, I also have to contend with a demon who wants my soul and the fact that I’ve been cursed on top of everything else. No big deal, right?
If you like snarky heroes, lots of action, and a healthy dose of grit and gore, you’ll love the first installment in N.P. Martin’s series of urban fantasy/occult suspense novels. Explore the Wizard’s Creed universe and discover a taste of Blood Magic today.
They call me wizard, fixer, finder, but mostly they call me Creed. Been hexed by a witch? Being stalked by a werewolf? Haunted by a crazy ghost? I’m the one you call to get my hands dirty, so you don’t have to.
So when I got a call from a grieving parent to find their missing daughter, I was happy to help. But what started out as another garden variety missing persons case, has now turned into something much weirder and much more deadly. Now I find myself being hunted by a crazy serial killer bent on summoning eldritch abominations from beyond the stars. And as if that’s not enough, I also have to contend with a demon who wants my soul and the fact that I’ve been cursed on top of everything else. No big deal, right?
If you like snarky heroes, lots of action, and a healthy dose of grit and gore, you’ll love the first installment in N.P. Martin’s series of urban fantasy/occult suspense novels. Explore the Wizard’s Creed universe and discover a taste of Blood Magic today.
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 21, 2018
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N.P. Martin
79 books123 followersI’m N.P. Martin and I’m a lover of dark fantasy and horror. Writing stories about magick, the occult, monsters and kickass characters has always been my idea of a dream job, and these days, I get to live that dream. I have tried many things in my life (professional martial arts instructor, bouncer, plasterer, salesman…to name a few), but only the writing hat seems to fit. When I’m not writing, I’m spending time with my wife and daughters at our home in Northern Ireland.
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May 12, 2018
With a parent you desperately hope to emancipate, and their being held captive in Hell, the travelling there becomes as inevitable as the sun's rising in the east when the said power to travel does occur. For our feisty heroine, it was as good as done from the moment discovery of the means took place, the only guessing becoming that related to success and/or failure.
Leia Swanson has grown and become so much stronger in power, body, mind, and emotional strength, since the days of unknowingly being afraid of what her Nephilim (Rising) shadow was, an awareness that took off like a bat out of hell, when she and her twin's days reached the post-eighteen year threshold.
The most exciting element of this saga for me, of which the competition has been stiff and diverse, relates to the now expansion of the Urban Fantasy (UF) landscape sprawl, which now ventures to Hell and Back. With the emphasis now convincingly being on the former, for which concentrated ventures therein are contraindicative to the presumptions an outside observer of UF would likely make, the win is for all concerned.
Authors and stories known to take on this challenge when situated in UF, are pretty exclusively restrained to places this genre would oftentimes liken, more so to an Underworld; a dimensional existence that for all it might contain concentrations of demons, it is rarely an assimilation of a certain conceptual genius's imagery and descriptions of his nine rings.
Neal has, however, tackled this much rarer conceptualisation found in our deep seeded psyches, since the shiver that Dante’s impressionistic outlook altered it so fully in also making it so widely well read, like lets say what “An American Werewolf in London” did for late night Lycan viewing. Neal's impressionism hasn't focused on rings or in the same manner, but the similarity it has, other than the easily presumed herein, has nonetheless done so at great length.
Neal has tackled the environment with gusto and has created a real 'Hell' for UF readers to indulge in, a place that'll deeply scar Leia regardless of the intended outcomes and goals, in how this cookie will crumble. The chance to relish a voyeuristic and notable contribution to UF literature that tackles a version of Hell that's typically reserved for Horror and Dark Fantasy fans, brings it into the purview of UF in a commendable fashion.
I do hope this contribution attracts similar appreciation from other readers as well as Neal's fan-based proper. Henceforth, the gritty stories and events that have taken place to date, are now added immeasurably to, by this new gem that becomes impregnated into your opinion so that future comparisons to this approach will forever now be required.
The only sad thing I've observed or experienced throughout my enjoyment of Neal's series (×2) is the disconcerting lack of appreciation and the related failing of them to properly go viral; like the good ones we all at least recognise, if not read or their places on our TBR's. A great book in a great series, and likely to be one of the most memorable for those who have read the series to date, and at the risk of overstating, perhaps the series as a whole. Dante... Here We Come!
Leia Swanson has grown and become so much stronger in power, body, mind, and emotional strength, since the days of unknowingly being afraid of what her Nephilim (Rising) shadow was, an awareness that took off like a bat out of hell, when she and her twin's days reached the post-eighteen year threshold.
The most exciting element of this saga for me, of which the competition has been stiff and diverse, relates to the now expansion of the Urban Fantasy (UF) landscape sprawl, which now ventures to Hell and Back. With the emphasis now convincingly being on the former, for which concentrated ventures therein are contraindicative to the presumptions an outside observer of UF would likely make, the win is for all concerned.
Authors and stories known to take on this challenge when situated in UF, are pretty exclusively restrained to places this genre would oftentimes liken, more so to an Underworld; a dimensional existence that for all it might contain concentrations of demons, it is rarely an assimilation of a certain conceptual genius's imagery and descriptions of his nine rings.
Neal has, however, tackled this much rarer conceptualisation found in our deep seeded psyches, since the shiver that Dante’s impressionistic outlook altered it so fully in also making it so widely well read, like lets say what “An American Werewolf in London” did for late night Lycan viewing. Neal's impressionism hasn't focused on rings or in the same manner, but the similarity it has, other than the easily presumed herein, has nonetheless done so at great length.
Neal has tackled the environment with gusto and has created a real 'Hell' for UF readers to indulge in, a place that'll deeply scar Leia regardless of the intended outcomes and goals, in how this cookie will crumble. The chance to relish a voyeuristic and notable contribution to UF literature that tackles a version of Hell that's typically reserved for Horror and Dark Fantasy fans, brings it into the purview of UF in a commendable fashion.
I do hope this contribution attracts similar appreciation from other readers as well as Neal's fan-based proper. Henceforth, the gritty stories and events that have taken place to date, are now added immeasurably to, by this new gem that becomes impregnated into your opinion so that future comparisons to this approach will forever now be required.
The only sad thing I've observed or experienced throughout my enjoyment of Neal's series (×2) is the disconcerting lack of appreciation and the related failing of them to properly go viral; like the good ones we all at least recognise, if not read or their places on our TBR's. A great book in a great series, and likely to be one of the most memorable for those who have read the series to date, and at the risk of overstating, perhaps the series as a whole. Dante... Here We Come!
April 22, 2020
I don’t even know what to say about this book. It was action packed and gave me nostalgic feelings about the Mortal Instruments. It had the evil father who leia had to defeat to save her mom. Her brother is also a demon so there’s that. And you can’t ignore the supernatural similarities. The author accidentally referred to peter as dean a couple times lol. Despite the obvious plot lines that mirrored other media I still found this novel to have a fresh and unique flavor; it had its own spin on things and it was truly one of a kind in the grand scheme of things. The ending broke me and I had tears pouring down my face by the time I finished this installment of Nephilim Rising. I’m looking forward to reading the final book in the series. I HAVE TO KNOW HOW IT ALL ENDS!!!
February 9, 2019
What an intense read. WOW!!!
Very dark, very frightening but so intriguing you can't put it down. Definitely not a book for the faint of heart . But definitely addicting.
Very dark, very frightening but so intriguing you can't put it down. Definitely not a book for the faint of heart . But definitely addicting.
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