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Demon Days
Demons couldn't kill Ty, but management just might.Ty Burdin just wants to settle into the nice, safe life of Agency lower management. He watched Rancic run the Knoxville Agency into the ground, surely Ty can't do any worse, right? First step is first, hiring a new hunter to fill in for the work he'd been doing. How hard can it be to find someone capable of chopping the heads off demons with reckless abandon? With a little bit of elbow grease, he might even convince that snot Diaz to stop mean mugging him every time he gives an order.Book 4 of the Beasts of Burdin series puts Ty somewhere he's never been before, in charge. Can he step up and accept the responsibility he's been shirking the last 2 years of his life? Or will more bad Agency management lead to the spilling of more innocent blood?
- GenresFantasy
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2021
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Alexander Nader
29 books108 followersWrites novels about the dark things floating around in his head because the demons won’t let him sleep otherwise. Jokes are his weapon of choice, but will resort to deflection in times of emergency. Did you know Maine is closer to Africa than any other state?
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October 10, 2022
Just started on book 5!
September 27, 2022
Death … well, death happens. All hunters have their day.
No heroes. Yeah, it's a story full of heroes yet there are no heroes. But the visions are real. The blood is real. The pain is real. There. Are. No. Heroes.
This isn’t going to work. I can’t do this. Not now. Not like this. I can’t deal with this.
Holy shinola. This was an INTENSE chapter in the on-going "Beasts of Burdin" series, probably in that aspect easily outpacing any of what we've seen so far. You don't have to have spent years in a management position, hating every minute of it and regretting your decision to have ever taken the job to see that. But trust me: it makes way, way too much fucking sense if that's where you're coming from! Seriously, what starts off seeming to be a story about a job no sane person would ever want in any way possible takes a sharp turn to crazy town before it's all over. It's very emotional, even very gory in parts and ultimately feels far too real. There are sections of this book that will leave you literally shaking. And yeah, as expected, our reborn half-half-demon hero gets the crap beat out of his body AND his soul in this one.
This management gig sucks. I thought I just had to chill out in my office and tell hunters to go kill things. Now there’s politics and blame and death and bad attitudes.
Nader does an awesome job though of putting Ty in absolutely the worst position you can think of and no, I'm not talking about some weird demon thing with 20 heads, ear wax for eyes and the voice of Ted Cruz trying to kill him (ye gods, I just threw up a bit in my mouth). Ty finds himself in a situation that he's not mature enough for, sober enough for or perhaps even still human enough for, dangling participles be damned! And to top it off, we're getting all kinds of gooey emotions being thrown at us along the way from every other direction, too! Sure, some characters we've seen in the first chapters have checked out to that great hunter bar in the sky, but this time it just feels a lot more real. A LOT MORE! I'm just glad there wasn't a REAL pet involved because that would have probably have been 'Old Yeller'd', too! Please tell me most of you are old enough to get that reference…
He’s a sea of calm as I drown in a riptide of guilt.
This chapter - like it's predecessors before it - moves along at warp speed. I have no problem admitting I submitted my review earlier TODAY for the previous book, then checked this one out immediately AFTER that from the KU library. And then what did I do? I sat down to read Book 4 from start to finish. OK, to be fair, today was kind of my day off and the weather was just perfect for reading and my wife had a late appointment etc.. But honestly, I just couldn't put it down! Loved the demons, loved the tension between the humans and the demons. Loved the humans, loved the tension between the humans and, um, the other humans, too! And more than any of the previous books, this one really hammered home just how utterly messed up things could get if one teensy tiny thing didn't work out according to plan. For our great hero, for the big bad Agency, for everyone! Oh how all the actions and reactions had consequences here!
You’ll still be alive, just not with me. And all the blood. My god, I’ve never seen so much blood.
There's also just a GREAT cliffhanger ending at the conclusion of this one (which more than makes up for a lack of cool short-story tacked on this time). Don't ask me to explain any of what happened during that sequence but things are set up for just an amazing next chapter (or seven). Yeah yeah yeah, we get that Nora is reaching her full Carrie potential and Hartnet will now be using his animated Super-/Batman grade chin to officially hunt demons and stop Lex Luthor. But something really REALLY nasty is waiting. No, that's not right. It's not waiting. It's here.
I will be in touch soon, darling. And one last thing, before I go, talk to anyone about me, one word, one hint, one odd eye movement, and I will kill them all and make you watch.
No heroes. Yeah, it's a story full of heroes yet there are no heroes. But the visions are real. The blood is real. The pain is real. There. Are. No. Heroes.
This isn’t going to work. I can’t do this. Not now. Not like this. I can’t deal with this.
Holy shinola. This was an INTENSE chapter in the on-going "Beasts of Burdin" series, probably in that aspect easily outpacing any of what we've seen so far. You don't have to have spent years in a management position, hating every minute of it and regretting your decision to have ever taken the job to see that. But trust me: it makes way, way too much fucking sense if that's where you're coming from! Seriously, what starts off seeming to be a story about a job no sane person would ever want in any way possible takes a sharp turn to crazy town before it's all over. It's very emotional, even very gory in parts and ultimately feels far too real. There are sections of this book that will leave you literally shaking. And yeah, as expected, our reborn half-half-demon hero gets the crap beat out of his body AND his soul in this one.
This management gig sucks. I thought I just had to chill out in my office and tell hunters to go kill things. Now there’s politics and blame and death and bad attitudes.
Nader does an awesome job though of putting Ty in absolutely the worst position you can think of and no, I'm not talking about some weird demon thing with 20 heads, ear wax for eyes and the voice of Ted Cruz trying to kill him (ye gods, I just threw up a bit in my mouth). Ty finds himself in a situation that he's not mature enough for, sober enough for or perhaps even still human enough for, dangling participles be damned! And to top it off, we're getting all kinds of gooey emotions being thrown at us along the way from every other direction, too! Sure, some characters we've seen in the first chapters have checked out to that great hunter bar in the sky, but this time it just feels a lot more real. A LOT MORE! I'm just glad there wasn't a REAL pet involved because that would have probably have been 'Old Yeller'd', too! Please tell me most of you are old enough to get that reference…
He’s a sea of calm as I drown in a riptide of guilt.
This chapter - like it's predecessors before it - moves along at warp speed. I have no problem admitting I submitted my review earlier TODAY for the previous book, then checked this one out immediately AFTER that from the KU library. And then what did I do? I sat down to read Book 4 from start to finish. OK, to be fair, today was kind of my day off and the weather was just perfect for reading and my wife had a late appointment etc.. But honestly, I just couldn't put it down! Loved the demons, loved the tension between the humans and the demons. Loved the humans, loved the tension between the humans and, um, the other humans, too! And more than any of the previous books, this one really hammered home just how utterly messed up things could get if one teensy tiny thing didn't work out according to plan. For our great hero, for the big bad Agency, for everyone! Oh how all the actions and reactions had consequences here!
You’ll still be alive, just not with me. And all the blood. My god, I’ve never seen so much blood.
There's also just a GREAT cliffhanger ending at the conclusion of this one (which more than makes up for a lack of cool short-story tacked on this time). Don't ask me to explain any of what happened during that sequence but things are set up for just an amazing next chapter (or seven). Yeah yeah yeah, we get that Nora is reaching her full Carrie potential and Hartnet will now be using his animated Super-/Batman grade chin to officially hunt demons and stop Lex Luthor. But something really REALLY nasty is waiting. No, that's not right. It's not waiting. It's here.
I will be in touch soon, darling. And one last thing, before I go, talk to anyone about me, one word, one hint, one odd eye movement, and I will kill them all and make you watch.
May 22, 2023
a wild ride with a twist - loved it
I stumbled across this series based on my kindle reading history and where the hell have I been - it’s amazing.
Ty and his motley crew of frenemies stole my heart from the start and I was cheering and cringing along with them as they experienced a wild array of bad luck, unfortunate circumstances and preventable repercussions. I need more Ty Burdin in my life and hope to see a 6th book out soon!
I stumbled across this series based on my kindle reading history and where the hell have I been - it’s amazing.
Ty and his motley crew of frenemies stole my heart from the start and I was cheering and cringing along with them as they experienced a wild array of bad luck, unfortunate circumstances and preventable repercussions. I need more Ty Burdin in my life and hope to see a 6th book out soon!
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