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Hell Bent
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First published January 1, 2018
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Rick Gualtieri
90 books766 followersRick Gualtieri loves to write adventure, mayhem, and snarky dialogue. His bestselling Tome of Bill series combines all of this into a world of supernatural danger with hard-hitting action and plenty of sharp-tongued geeky humor.
Rick lives alone in a dark, evil place called New Jersey with only his wife, three kids, and countless pets to both keep him company and constantly plot against him. When he's not busy monkey-clicking out words, he can typically be found jealously guarding his collection of vintage Transformers from all who would seek to defile them.
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Email: rickg.author@gmail.com
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Rick lives alone in a dark, evil place called New Jersey with only his wife, three kids, and countless pets to both keep him company and constantly plot against him. When he's not busy monkey-clicking out words, he can typically be found jealously guarding his collection of vintage Transformers from all who would seek to defile them.
Defilers beware!
Email: rickg.author@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/RickGualtieriAuthor
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June 9, 2022
I might’ve been something other than human – a hybrid of two mythological creatures – but I wasn’t an unfeeling monster.
Gualtieri continues my latest serialized fantasy genre addiction with a very cool albeit brief sojourn into Tamara aka Bent's first weeks back at college, that is, picking up essentially right where we were, well, last night for me. As we learned in Book 1 (no bits after the decimal), she's headed back to school early, gone off her meds and goodness knows what else! This is a quick read but if I've learned anything from the score (just slightly less than a plethora) of "Bill the Vampire" books that I've read, important details abound within!
Flesh-eating monsters make me testy. Force of habit.
It'd be very hard to detail too much about this book without giving away major spoilers. But as usual, Gualtieri manages to get the tone just right, including making college folks sound like college folks and continuing on with his perfectly timed modern cultural references. There's nothing I dislike more than an author trying to write an "academy" or other "school of xyz" book in the urban fantasy genre and failing miserably, but thankfully, again, that is most assuredly not the case here.
I caught sight of dark scaly skin, long greasy hair, fangs, and ... boobs?
So without being massively spoil-y, I will add a splash of my own culturally relevant veneration, namely, if Disney gets "it" right and makes the upcoming She-Hulk series ANYWHERE near this good, I will be - as the French say - tooty sweety addicted! And if not, well, I have a recommendation on who(m) they can call to get the script fixed! With that bit of super green goodness in mind, it really is fun seeing Tamara learn about her powers and even have to hold herself back from going totally gamma-radiated on everyone's butts along the way. That is this novella's greatest achievement in that I'm even more rabid than before to keep going in the series!
I was after an undead monster possessing one name I could barely pronounce and another that sounded like the title of a porno.
And speaking of said undead (my rapping is getting so much better!), this was oddly enough not my first aswang rodeo - and no, I'm not giggling at all though I bet you are! However, as I gave that previous book only 1-star (and there's a voice in my head screaming there may have been another book at some point that used same but it - the book I mean - was equally as bad… or was that a Scooby-Doo episode?), it's not hard to believe that I think Gualtieri did much more with the Filipino legend than anyone I've come across to date. Shame in many ways that our resident manananggal (hint: NOT a Muppet song though that is probably stuck in your brain now) only appeared in this relatively brief novella because that was some really cool and really unique stuff going on (when the legs did the thing and the intestines and the wings and how Bent wound up fighting it … WOW!)! All I can suggest to those of you that enjoy the legends and lore of cryptids should head over to at least the wikipedia page and read up on these nasties! For extra credit we'll even discuss why some might consider Tamara an aswang… ok, NOW I'm giggling, I admit it!
Great stuff kids. Now outta my way, I'm divin' into Book 2 prontissimo (which is coincidentally the name of a little known cryptid from Italy that is part two-headed goat and part curly pasta)!
Gualtieri continues my latest serialized fantasy genre addiction with a very cool albeit brief sojourn into Tamara aka Bent's first weeks back at college, that is, picking up essentially right where we were, well, last night for me. As we learned in Book 1 (no bits after the decimal), she's headed back to school early, gone off her meds and goodness knows what else! This is a quick read but if I've learned anything from the score (just slightly less than a plethora) of "Bill the Vampire" books that I've read, important details abound within!
Flesh-eating monsters make me testy. Force of habit.
It'd be very hard to detail too much about this book without giving away major spoilers. But as usual, Gualtieri manages to get the tone just right, including making college folks sound like college folks and continuing on with his perfectly timed modern cultural references. There's nothing I dislike more than an author trying to write an "academy" or other "school of xyz" book in the urban fantasy genre and failing miserably, but thankfully, again, that is most assuredly not the case here.
I caught sight of dark scaly skin, long greasy hair, fangs, and ... boobs?
So without being massively spoil-y, I will add a splash of my own culturally relevant veneration, namely, if Disney gets "it" right and makes the upcoming She-Hulk series ANYWHERE near this good, I will be - as the French say - tooty sweety addicted! And if not, well, I have a recommendation on who(m) they can call to get the script fixed! With that bit of super green goodness in mind, it really is fun seeing Tamara learn about her powers and even have to hold herself back from going totally gamma-radiated on everyone's butts along the way. That is this novella's greatest achievement in that I'm even more rabid than before to keep going in the series!
I was after an undead monster possessing one name I could barely pronounce and another that sounded like the title of a porno.
And speaking of said undead (my rapping is getting so much better!), this was oddly enough not my first aswang rodeo - and no, I'm not giggling at all though I bet you are! However, as I gave that previous book only 1-star (and there's a voice in my head screaming there may have been another book at some point that used same but it - the book I mean - was equally as bad… or was that a Scooby-Doo episode?), it's not hard to believe that I think Gualtieri did much more with the Filipino legend than anyone I've come across to date. Shame in many ways that our resident manananggal (hint: NOT a Muppet song though that is probably stuck in your brain now) only appeared in this relatively brief novella because that was some really cool and really unique stuff going on (when the legs did the thing and the intestines and the wings and how Bent wound up fighting it … WOW!)! All I can suggest to those of you that enjoy the legends and lore of cryptids should head over to at least the wikipedia page and read up on these nasties! For extra credit we'll even discuss why some might consider Tamara an aswang… ok, NOW I'm giggling, I admit it!
Great stuff kids. Now outta my way, I'm divin' into Book 2 prontissimo (which is coincidentally the name of a little known cryptid from Italy that is part two-headed goat and part curly pasta)!
June 13, 2023
First book featuring a hybrid witch/werewolf who is just learning her powers while going to college
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