Book Review: Hellwatch: Mephistopheles by Larime Taylor

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Ester Vasquez,25, was born with arthrogryposis. As a child she showed a natural aptitude withcomputers that eventually led to the online underworld of hacking, where shebecame a star. Though she was never caught, she decided to turn her skills tomore legal endeavors, attending Arizona State University and offering her servicesas an online security specialist. A successful early career followed. Roughlyfour years ago, however, something happened within her family that shook her tothe core and brought on some drastic changes over time. She still refuses totalk about it.
After severalyears as the 'It Girl' of online security, she all but gave up the professionand took up a more peculiar one: hunting demons and monsters. She continues tolive on the money that her company makes, though she has very little to do withits day-to-day functions and dealings, leaving that to a business manager andseveral other young hackers hired on to take her place after she walked away justover two years ago. A former Catholic priest-turned-demon hunter in Bostonnamed Jacob Bridges took her on as a student and became her long-distancementor.
Ester met Samuel'Sammy' Lutui, a registered nurse, soon after when his grandmother hired herbecause she was convinced that he was possessed by a demon. Grandma was old andold fashioned, and being gay was something she just couldn't come to accept.Funny enough, it turned out that there was a demon in Sammy, but it had nothingto do with his being gay, and Ester easily got rid of it. In his gratitude,Sammy became Ester's live-in care provider as well as her demon-huntingassistant, and in the two years that followed they've become best friends.Together they protect the unaware masses from the monsters and demons that lurkin the shadows and prey upon them.


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ABOUT EPISODE 2:
The enigmaticDemon in Black, an independent agent and Ester's occasional contact, surfaceswith some important information. As he looks to be playing both sides of thefence, whose side is he really on? Can he make Ester an offer she can't refuse?
REVIEW:
Mephistopheles is the second episode of Larime Taylor's Hellwatch series,and I highly recommend it to anyone that loved the movie Constantine. You canread the pilot episode on Larime's site, along with each new episode, whichwill be appearing on a monthly basis until Halloween 2012.
In the second episode we get to see Ester and Samuel at their best. Theyare recuperating after capturing a nasty demon in Mexico, but Ester tries tohide some emotional wounds that run deeper than her healing laceration.
There are things about Ester's past that Samuel doesn't know. Esterstruggles with her own inner demons. Ester had seen things that caused her topursue a life as a demon hunter, but what Samuel doesn't realize, is that whatshe saw came from her home.
In steps Mephistopheles. He's not too fond of making deals with thedevil's spawn, but he is concerned about one person – himself. Mephistophelesis a fallen angel that not only turned his back on god, but the devil too. Hehas no desire to help in the war between good and evil, he only wants to beleft alone. If that means making a deal with the one of the princes of hell –so be it.
The devil's children are looking for a way to gain Mephistophelescooperation, because he knows one thing that they can't figure out. Mephistopheleshas possessed the body of a human without there being a physical conflictbetween human and the demon's soul. This is valuable information that all thedemons would like to know, but Mephistopheles only wants one thing – to beomitted from the war.
Pacts are signed in blood and deals are made. You can break a deal with ademon, but there will be hell to pay afterward.


I read Mephistopheles before it was completelythrough the editing process, and have to admit that Larime Taylor has a greattalent for story building. The author has created a complex world of greed;with an unfolding deeper plot that I'm sure will take us on a ride through theseries. His characters well thought out and dimensional. Larime tells a storyfrom the view most of never see, and has a great lure to keep you captivated. 
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