The Quest for Glory comes to its thrilling conclusion in this Quincy Harker collection! Glory's lost her wings, and Harker is running around collection Archangels like they're Pokémon, but things go from bad to worse as he gets nearer to his final battle with the king of lies himself, Lucifer! Follow the adventures of Harker and the modern-day Shadow Council as they try to save the world and restore Glory's divinity. This novella collection features all four of the Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter books that make up Year Four.
She Talks to Angels In the fifth part of the Quincy Harker crossover series, Gabby helps hunt down a rogue archangel in St. Louis, learning more about herself, about history, and about that cute doctor's son than she expected.
Shout at the Devil The Quest for Glory continues as Quincy Harker travels west to hunt down a rogue Archangel and avenge the murder of a good friend.
Angel of Harlem The Quest for Glory rushes toward its conclusion as Quincy Harker steps in for a missing Shadow Council member and goes to New York City to find the last Archangel. But when pieces of his past come back to haunt him, Quincy must face feelings long buried and horrors brand new.
Sympathy for the Devil It's been a two-year quest that has spanned the continent, and now Quincy Harker is crossing dimensions to do battle with Lucifer and restore his Guardian Angel Glory's divinity. Is he really hero enough to stand toe to toe with the Devil himself and come out alive?
John G. Hartness is a teller of tales, a righter of wrong, defender of ladies’ virtues, and some people call him Maurice, for he speaks of the pompatus of love.
He is also the award-winning author of the urban fantasy series The Black Knight Chronicles (Bell Bridge Books), the Bubba the Monster Hunter comedic horror series, the Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter dark fantasy series, and many other projects.
In 2016, John teamed up with a pair of other publishing industry ne’er-do-wells and founded Falstaff Books, a small press dedicated to publishing the best of genre fictions “misfit toys.” In his copious free time John enjoys long walks on the beach, rescuing kittens from trees and playing Magic: the Gathering.
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Salvation Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter Year Four By: John G. Hartness Narrated by: James Anderson Foster Series: Quest for Glory, Book 5-8, Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, Book 13-16 I truly love this series! The plot always has unpredictable situations and twists. The characters by now are like friends. There is always great snarky, funny, witty dialogue that keeps me smiling or giggling. It happens at the most unexpected times too!😁 Lot of great action with creatures of the supernatural, mostly demons and angels. In this book Quincy is on a mission to gather angels to go to hell with him to rescue his guardian angel Glory and another angel. This is one wild ride! Sparkle comes along too! ( By accident.) Can't wait for the next books. This book covers books Quincy Harper 13-16. The narrator brings so much to this story! He bring the characters to life with his excellent way of keeping a perfect voice for each of the many characters. Not easy to do but he performs it brilliantly.
About the Book: Harker and his friends found a way to get Glory her divinity back, but it sadly means a lot of very bad things happening first. Such as going to hell. Literally. Where Quincy Harker is very well known. But not very well liked, due to the absolute hordes of demons he’s banished from their playgrounds on earth over the long years he has been alive. The few archangels at his six won’t likely help restore that image either…
My Opinion: I really like the way author writes. It’s smooth, amusing, witty, gritty, and even when facts of the world change – it’s hard to question it, as it’s just woven into the plot. There’s always adventures, some more unique and interesting than others, but hey, I do love me an action-packed book, and if there’s one thing never lacking with Quincy motherfucking Harker around it’s action. Along with such things as demon bile, or demonic funk. Love the philosophy too, and the use of good old characters in plot twists to throw some things off a little, or propel them a bit farther. All in all, a great tale, with a few weaker points, such as too smooth a road down into the pit for that one final throwdown.
This is a review of Quincy Harker Demon Hunter year 2 to 4, four books (The Cambion Cycle, Damnation and Salvation) which is turn is a collection of shorter novellas, books 5 to 16, in the Quincy Harker Demon Hunter series.
In short, these are great books somewhat ruined by a absolutely shitty ending of the fourth book.
Quincy Harker is the same foul mouthed, kick-ass, authority hating hero as ever. I really like this guy. He is surrounded by a bunch of equally likable friends (well, friends and friends, everything is relative) that are almost as foul mouthed and snarky as well as kick-ass as himself. The bantering between them is in a class of its own not to mention when he gets started talking smack to the bad guys.
Speaking of bad guys, most of them are quite good, or at least well done, characters as well and the half bad ones who occasionally sides with Quincy and his band are often quite cool.
The menagerie is quite extensive starting with Quincy’s uncle who is actually Count Dracula himself, relatives of Van Helsing, Frankenstein’s monster (who is actually a quite cool guy), Angels, Archangels, Demons all the way to the horned guy himself. It is all well done without going way too far out which is something that many authors do when they try to achieve more and more outrageous (cheap) shock effects.
Of course there’s plenty of action. Really cool action I might add and of course the action is accompanied by a healthy dose of foul language either as internal monologue or smack talk to the various persons or creatures that are about to have a very bad day.
As the books are actually made up of four individual small novellas they are kind of divided into four distinct chapters. Sometimes a chapter is told from the viewpoint of Harker himself and sometimes from the viewpoint of one of Harker’s friends. Normally I’m not too keen on switching viewpoints like that but it works quite well and the chapters tie nicely together and advances the story in a coherent way. One part was actually a prequel and in some others Harker was on the run. Both things I generally do not like but in these books it actually worked for me.
The books for year two and three easily gets 5 out of 5 stars from me but then we get to the 4th year.
Now this is perhaps a bit unfair but then reading as well as making reviews is hobby for me and I do not pretend to do professional reviews so I could not make myself give anything more than 2 stars for the fourth year book.
The book is as good as the other (almost) up until the end where the author decides to destroy the happy ending with an absolutely atrocious ending. There’s absolutely no justification for the crap he pulled. It was just a really cheap way of trying to make people want to read the next book in the series. In one of the books the author writes “This isn’t some M. Night Shamalamadingdong movie, just going for the cheap plot twist.” which I thought was quite funny but then he goes of and produces this ending which, to me, is just a cheap plot twist.
That ending really ruined the books for me and in addition, after having more or less behaved in the previous two books, the author decided to start to sprinkle woke rubbish all over the place again. I do not need bullshit phrases like “white boy” and “…brown skin have some representation inside the government.” in my books. Skin colour is not a qualification of a persons value or capabilities. At least not outside of the small and loudmouthed group of far left woke oxygen wasters.
So overall, great books but instead of getting a total 5 out of 5 they get a 4 out of 5 stars average from me.
As a conclusion to this story arc, this was not what I was hoping for. It felt like just another run of the mill Harker story, which in itself would be fine if that was what this was. However, this was the ending of a literal biblical story arc and a showdown with the devil himself. It should have felt special, epic... it should have been more than we got.
This highlights a bit of an issue for me with this series as a whole. It's very one-note. There's not much variance with the stories being told, there's a clear formula, and honestly, there's not much difference between the characters.
You've got the tough, female ass-kicker who can stare down / beat down / emasculate every male character no matter how powerful or deserving because they're empowered women who won't take shit off anyone (Even though often there's not even any shit being given, at least not relative to the shit everyone else takes in those books). I've literally lost count of the number of men who have been kicked in the balls in this series only for it to be played off as this, 'Ha ha, you sure showed them,' moment.
Then you have the snarky, wise-quipping male character who is mouthy without consequence to everyone around them despite their relatively low power levels. Somehow these characters win through every story despite getting their asses handed to them in every confrontation. They are incompetent morons who somehow get through every situation on sheer arrogance alone, or more likely, plot armour.
And finally, you have the overpowered characters of legend who, despite their vast power and experience, are basically parts of the scenery for all the impact they actually have on events and the story.
It's all getting a little samey and while they're enjoyable enough to keep reading, I do think this problem will be the eventual downfall of this series... for this reader at least.
I’ve really love this series so far. Quincy Harker is a cool, sarcastic character, and I love how he doesn’t care what anyone thinks.
As always, the narrator did an awesome job. I love this guy’s accents. He’s very natural and, big plus, it doesn’t sound like he’s just sitting somewhere reading the script.
Questions/Comments:
I couldn’t help but notice, at least to me, that there was a big similarity between this batch of stories and those of book 1. I don’t know what the author’s original plan had been for the multiple short stories, but I’m guessing it didn’t turn out like he’d wanted? I have no clue. I’m referring to the repetition of certain facts; facts that get repeated in each of the short stories. For example, letting the reader/listener know who exactly Dennis is. Considering this is book 4, if people don’t know who he is, especially after having mentioned it already in the first two short stories of book 4, then oh well. I got annoyed with his mini bio mentioned so many times.
Again, this is book 4. So, was it just me? Or did anyone else realize that Flynn is black? I hadn’t realized that until listening to this book. I found it strange that it was actually mentioned (in some way) three different times as well. I don’t care what she is, but after listening to three books, you get an image in your head as to what she could look like, then to suddenly have it changed (albeit in a small way), well… I wasn’t a fan of that.
I did love the author’s idea of hell though and how it’s up to the soul to decide when they’re ready to leave.
At this point, there have been 16 main novellas released in the Quincy Harker series, with this being the 4th collection of books. The series on a whole has been very consistent, and this outing is no different.
The Quest for Glory story arc is finished off extremely well, but if this is the last Harker story, then it ends with a whimper, instead of a bang. The main issue I have with the series, is that it feels like its run its course. I don't think you can logically go further than the last story in the book does (Sympathy for the devil). Going all out, it's disappointing that it ends with a cliffhanger.
If you like Harker/Hartness, then you'll enjoy this collection also. If Hartness releases more stories then I may check them out, but in a perfect world, it could have ended well here.
Awesome collection of stories which culminated in Glory getting her wings and an interesting surprise. With all the twists and turns in this set of novellas I throughly enjoyed the finding of Raphael, Michael getting missing parts and Sparkle/ Dennis humor and his surprise. Quincy had lots of decisions to make and choices but he even tried thinking like Flynn. Cassandra adds to the whole family atmosphere and her swear jar is precious! Luke even had moments of humanity even though he is a vampire. You also have Pravesh as the new link to paranormal as Smith’s replacement. Things are looking up for many but Quincy has so much he has to do to protect family and friends that his life is about to change. I give this book a 10. Read and enjoy!
This was a great installment in the Quincy Harker series and a fitting end to the original arc started in Book One. We get to see things from the perspective of Gabby which is a new thing in this series. We also see the culmination of the Glory story arc. Hartness still brings his own unique humor and insight into this installment of the series which I’ve come to expect. There is the usual ridiculous fights with more ridiculous boss fights that any one who’s read Quincy Harker has come to expect but the author kicks it into overdrive with this book. Expect some interesting twists as the story winds down and plenty of demons getting beaten by a perfect anti hero. If you love Quincy Harker then don’t skip this one.
Why do I loves these series? Why do I keep wanting more? Because he's Quincy F***ing Harker that's why. Need I say more.
Seriously though from book one I was hooked. I couldn't stop myself. Would be working all day listening to the audio book which by the way was very well done. But most importantly to me when reading action fantasy fiction or anything As a woman I enjoy a book more with good strong female characters. None of these damsel in distress, come save me over and over again ladies that are So boring. That's a deal breaker for me because I simply can not relate to them. But There's some 100% bad ass ladies in here. Like Flynn, Gabby, Joe, Glory, And RIP Kristie . Looking forward to the next installment.
I'm really writing this one for John so in the words of Good Ol' JR "GOOOOD GAWD", and Joey Styles "OH MY GOD", and Joseph Brassy, "GOD DAMNIT!". This is an AMAZING (pun intended) book. Every novella will leave you either laughing, yelling, scratching your head, or crying. Hartness continues Q on his journey to get Glory her wings back, face down demons and rescue the Host. Q uncovers the mysteries of Hell itself in this outstanding book. I don't know how he manages to make every story better than the previous one in the magnitude he does, but Hartness does it. Maybe he's a wizard and has us all fooled, or he made a deal???
The final four novellas of the Quincy Harker, Quest for Glory, have been collected in one volume: She Talks to Angels Shout at the Devil Angel of Harlem Sympathy for the Devil (each of the novellas are reviewed individually under their respective titles)
A well-done urban fantasy series beginning to end within the greater lore of the Quincy Harker universe. I loved how each of the angels had their own particular style and personality. The fight scenes are Quincy blow-outs - leveling mansions and erasing demons.
I can see why so many reviewers hated the end of this set of novellas. I mean, it did kinda suck but it was certainly understandable. So many people complained about it I was afraid one of the main characters was going to die but that wasn't the case so I was okay with the end.
Still love Harker and his band of merry men/women. I've got the next book, Carl Perkins’ Cadillac, and can't wait to start it.
No romance and the F-bomb was used 346 times.
As for the narration: James Anderson Foster is fabulous!
I dearly love Quincy Harker, and will not be happy unless I am allowed to visit with him and all those he is near and dear with on a regular basis. Thank you so much for giving me another family to call my own. Especially one that is almost as unique and interesting and populated with outrageous characters as my own dear family is. After all, every family does have a few eccentrics, don't they?
The storytelling has not improved. It is rather more unbelievable and cringe than makes for a good tale. The bumbling idiocy and behaviour of the characters along with clueless incompetence just torpedoes my ability to suspend disbelief, this while being aware of what category this series of books is in.
Sadly, I have to wait for the next Harker fix. I love this series and even though I am sad I have to wait, I am glad the stories will keep coming! I wait with Bates breathe. Now I will have to read some of his other books while I sit here waiting....
As usual, another four great stories in one great listen. This book concludes the Quest for Glory storyline, but before it gets to it, we get another side quest, this time, from Gaby. Really love this series
Quincy Harker has to get the last archangel and storm the circles of hell. What could go wrong? Lots! And the fun continues. Expect foul mouth humor and a lot of cussin' from our favorite magic users.
I loved this! The story that had driven the last 8 novellas has finally wrapped up in a fantastic conclusion that kept me biting my lip and on the edge of my seat. Write more now!!