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Wizard's Creed #4
Blood Demon
We all have our demons…and some of them kill.
Creed here again. A bloodthirsty demon has possessed me, and he’s wearing my body like a cheap suit as he leaves a trail of dead across the city. Of course, people think I’m the murderer, which is probably why I now find myself locked up in a Division prison cell, with only the demon inside me for company. A demon called Max, of all things...
To get rid of Max, I told him he could ride along with me on my ill-advised journey to the Realm of the Dead, where I intend to rescue my family members, who are all in trouble there. Max wants to know how they escaped his domain in the Underworld. Once he finds that out, he’ll leave me alone...or so he says. With demons, things are never that simple...
I’m in balls deep this time, and I have no choice but to go along with the demon to the Realm of the Dead, and hope that I get out alive…just so the demon can probably kill me anyway.
But before I can go rushing toward my death, I need to find a way out of this prison cell…
If you like Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, or Shayne Silvers, then you will LOVE the fourth installment of the Sorcerer's Creed Paranormal Suspense Series.
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Q: What makes the Sorcerer's Creed Series special?
A: I have always been a huge fan of dark and urban fantasy. I also love dark, gritty urban settings and characters, especially the classic pulp and occult detective type characters, along with monsters and supernatural creatures. So I tossed all those things together, applied a bit of magic and created the Sorcerer's Creed Series.
Q: Why should a reader try this series out?
A: Because the Sorcerer's Creed Series is an action-packed, paranormal thrill-ride that pulls no punches. Ghosts, vampires, warlocks, demons and a whole cast of other supernatural characters abound. And with a fast-paced plot and more twists and turns than a drunk snake, you’re sure to keep reading till the very end. Hell, it even features a possessed dildo and many other humorously twisted things you probably shouldn’t laugh out loud to…but will!
Q: What kind of reader would enjoy this series?
A: Anyone who loves urban fantasy heroes like John Constantine and Harry Dresden, and books by authors such as Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Pippa DaCosta, MD Massey, Al K Line and JA Cipriano, as well as TV shows like Supernatural and The Magicians. If you like character driven stories with lots of action, a bit of snark, a pinch of romance and of course, humor, then this is the series for you.
Q: So what order are the books in?
A: All the books in this series are intended to be stand-alone stories, yet each one is interlinked, with each adding more to the other. Books in the series so far are:
Crimson Crow (Prequel)
Blood Sacrifice
Blood Debt
Blood Cult
Blood Demon
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Creed here again. A bloodthirsty demon has possessed me, and he’s wearing my body like a cheap suit as he leaves a trail of dead across the city. Of course, people think I’m the murderer, which is probably why I now find myself locked up in a Division prison cell, with only the demon inside me for company. A demon called Max, of all things...
To get rid of Max, I told him he could ride along with me on my ill-advised journey to the Realm of the Dead, where I intend to rescue my family members, who are all in trouble there. Max wants to know how they escaped his domain in the Underworld. Once he finds that out, he’ll leave me alone...or so he says. With demons, things are never that simple...
I’m in balls deep this time, and I have no choice but to go along with the demon to the Realm of the Dead, and hope that I get out alive…just so the demon can probably kill me anyway.
But before I can go rushing toward my death, I need to find a way out of this prison cell…
If you like Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, or Shayne Silvers, then you will LOVE the fourth installment of the Sorcerer's Creed Paranormal Suspense Series.
Hit BUY NOW to jump right into this spellbinding paranormal adventure TODAY!
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Q: What makes the Sorcerer's Creed Series special?
A: I have always been a huge fan of dark and urban fantasy. I also love dark, gritty urban settings and characters, especially the classic pulp and occult detective type characters, along with monsters and supernatural creatures. So I tossed all those things together, applied a bit of magic and created the Sorcerer's Creed Series.
Q: Why should a reader try this series out?
A: Because the Sorcerer's Creed Series is an action-packed, paranormal thrill-ride that pulls no punches. Ghosts, vampires, warlocks, demons and a whole cast of other supernatural characters abound. And with a fast-paced plot and more twists and turns than a drunk snake, you’re sure to keep reading till the very end. Hell, it even features a possessed dildo and many other humorously twisted things you probably shouldn’t laugh out loud to…but will!
Q: What kind of reader would enjoy this series?
A: Anyone who loves urban fantasy heroes like John Constantine and Harry Dresden, and books by authors such as Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Pippa DaCosta, MD Massey, Al K Line and JA Cipriano, as well as TV shows like Supernatural and The Magicians. If you like character driven stories with lots of action, a bit of snark, a pinch of romance and of course, humor, then this is the series for you.
Q: So what order are the books in?
A: All the books in this series are intended to be stand-alone stories, yet each one is interlinked, with each adding more to the other. Books in the series so far are:
Crimson Crow (Prequel)
Blood Sacrifice
Blood Debt
Blood Cult
Blood Demon
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Published September 1, 2019
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N.P. Martin
82 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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November 23, 2017
In a first for Neal (N.P. Martin) throughout his published works, his new full-length novel, Blood Demon, introduces a point of view other than just that of his signature character’s own: August Creed, of the series with his partial namesake, Sorcerer's Creed (Book Four). In so doing he's added a further enjoyable dimension to his already good-sized and numbered portions, bringing about an ingenious and infectious way of doing so. Even at its barest essentials, it is indeed a much less likely alternative to that of the book's compatriots typically found throughout examples sharing the same structural organisation, creating a more unique way of adding such a dimension to firsthand books.
It offers greater fulfillment as a structural dimension of Blood Demon, the title of which gives a clue as to the origination of this newly adapted addition to the series' overall plot. I also thoroughly appreciated that it isn't the sort of romanticised PC version that can drown the respective subgenre of Urban Fantasy (UF) in a manner that substitutes its dark and gritty potential for the aforementioned characteristics, which seem to be that which rules the roost. The way Neal adapts his features in general to this and his other books, is fortunately a better signature or model of what his subgenre should look like, i.e. UF: that can sometimes be used interchangeably with Paranormal Fantasy, or PF.
It's my opinion after having watched certain trends solidify within UF in the past few years, that a considerable need exists for it to be allowed to make a clean and segregated break from influences that should primarily be retained by its closest influence and relative, that being PNR. In it's own development and in its own way, it could also be said to have been unduly influenced by lingering and comparable consequences originating from the overshadowing of erotica in its margins and boundaries. In much the same way, expectations by migrating fans and authors using migrated styles from erotica blurred the way PNR's readers expected the new subgenre to contain respective elements.
The same two particular influences – migrating readers and migrating authors – eluded in the above paragraph have similarly been among the major factors unduly shaping the ability of Neal's preferred and well suited style of writing to penetrate the UF market; just as it does others who are particularly suited to writing UF that is clearly different from PNR. Such market factors are making it harder for him and authors like him, to be located among a sea of writers whose styles, rightly or otherwise, are more indicative of a blending of subgenres or outright to PNR.
Before taking offence, please first realise that no right or wrong is argued in this statement, it's just an observation of events having widespread effects on those suited more distinctly to this target audience. An indicative consequence of blurred boundaries that has fortunately been avoided in Blood Demon, is the oftentimes strategy of substituting dark and gritty for likeable and romantic; which is surely false in any real world development of the landscapes of UF that are meant to be mode indicative than landscapes developed in other fantasy subgenres, also gratefully absent from Neal's eLibrary in general.
From the moment Neal's second and related new dimension of including a prologue opens the story, a feature previously as absent as the second point of view, the intensity and associated horror draws the plot dramatically onward and upward, until it stylishly earns it adult rating with a constant climate of these aspects. Blood Demon leaves no doubts as to whom is the intended age group, and perhaps the whole audience in general. On sheer gore alone, the rating is a definite R18+, a not so defining embellishment of the series to date. It's certainly among the reasons that appreciably carry this addition to Sorcerer’s Creed all the way into a darker sort of UF than has come from Neal before. This comparative absence from Neal's own predecessors also carries to its typical peers abroad.
What the prologue presages is a mainstay of the book to be answered, one you'll enjoy reading in order to discover, the need set in motion from page one and carrying right through to the last. Creed's usual position of involvement in the heart of all things supernatural in Blackham City, is both accelerated and more precarious than usual, quite a fete of achievement once all things are considered. As Creed's past has done before, perhaps a relic of lifestyles in which
“magicslingers” lead, his crème-de-la-cream resurfaces for what could easily become his last romp in the proverbial hay. Requiring what isn't his to give by first treating him to the harshest realities of what his future might look like, the thing of his nightmares proves in the grandest of styles that he is no longer the one in control of where his life is set to go.
With that firmly established, the current combatant insists he be the one to steer the current course. The more Creed seeks to resist or alter this fact, the more pain and suffering he’s forced to endure. Fortunately, in a depressing but functional by-product of his past, he's no virgin to the act of compartmentalising in order to go on. From Creed's past in Blackham City, from a time when he was essentially no more well acquainted with the city's denizens than is a tourist, one such early patron will be a curve ball pitcher he wouldn't have thought to get involved with in this new maelstrom of gore, death, and the rendering of innocent flesh; mostly on account of the heritage the new patron is well acquainted with, of causing much the same gore – albeit mostly in their distant past. The irony of the perceptions about the dark side in both a new contract, and one he’d allowed himself to forget, is in how they are both coloured with much the same pallet of the dark side of supernatural forces. It could be comical if what else was going on had an ability to allow any ‘looking on the bright side’ of a cup half-full.
It must be said that I absolutely loved the face lift on earning its adult rating. There's also a sense of having jumped off the proverbial fence when it comes to writing for the intended audience, a feature that might've unduly characterised the series by harsher critics before Blood Demon was published, a great move regardless of however accurate the previous statement is in pointing out a flaw in some of the harsher previous reviewers, who've critiqued each of the previous books with a hard hand.
Blood Demon works well in setting up and establishing the newest climate for the future world that is Blackham City, and abroad in any further additions to Sorcerer's Creed or Neal's works. The frequency and height of violence gives a much bigger and well earned visage of the city at the heart of all things supernatural within the series. Nary a page, or perhaps a couple goes by without scenes and sequences that give this urban fantasy a well earned change of scene, from a straight and mostly clean, to a dark and gritty substitute. Reinvigorating and uplifting qualities and expressions mark Blood Demon as Neal's flagship model of the series to come, and hopefully in the scheme of an equitable marketing solution to keep Neal's future UF publications coming.
Neal's UF has steadily climbed the ladders of TBR’s within the urban and paranormal fantasy world, and to an extent, in smaller ways relating to the market of supernatural suspense and dark fantasy as well. Between Sorcerer's Creed and The Watchers Series, which a little birdy tells me might be forthcoming with a face lift and republished influence in Neal's better developed storytelling than when this first series was written; bringing them on par with his more recent work and from my own point of view, a hopefully more frequent time among bestsellers. A time revealing that male writers have a greater contribution to the subgenre than is typically expected, is more than overdue.
Collectively, Neal now has double figures in full length stories, plus further companion and prequel novellas. With one book having attracted the right sort of attention to place it on the bestseller list, it is my sincere belief that Blood Demon has more than sufficient mettle to be a likely further candidate, and the start of a trend in Neal's future books, so don't be a dupe and miss out on this book in favour of another.
It offers greater fulfillment as a structural dimension of Blood Demon, the title of which gives a clue as to the origination of this newly adapted addition to the series' overall plot. I also thoroughly appreciated that it isn't the sort of romanticised PC version that can drown the respective subgenre of Urban Fantasy (UF) in a manner that substitutes its dark and gritty potential for the aforementioned characteristics, which seem to be that which rules the roost. The way Neal adapts his features in general to this and his other books, is fortunately a better signature or model of what his subgenre should look like, i.e. UF: that can sometimes be used interchangeably with Paranormal Fantasy, or PF.
It's my opinion after having watched certain trends solidify within UF in the past few years, that a considerable need exists for it to be allowed to make a clean and segregated break from influences that should primarily be retained by its closest influence and relative, that being PNR. In it's own development and in its own way, it could also be said to have been unduly influenced by lingering and comparable consequences originating from the overshadowing of erotica in its margins and boundaries. In much the same way, expectations by migrating fans and authors using migrated styles from erotica blurred the way PNR's readers expected the new subgenre to contain respective elements.
The same two particular influences – migrating readers and migrating authors – eluded in the above paragraph have similarly been among the major factors unduly shaping the ability of Neal's preferred and well suited style of writing to penetrate the UF market; just as it does others who are particularly suited to writing UF that is clearly different from PNR. Such market factors are making it harder for him and authors like him, to be located among a sea of writers whose styles, rightly or otherwise, are more indicative of a blending of subgenres or outright to PNR.
Before taking offence, please first realise that no right or wrong is argued in this statement, it's just an observation of events having widespread effects on those suited more distinctly to this target audience. An indicative consequence of blurred boundaries that has fortunately been avoided in Blood Demon, is the oftentimes strategy of substituting dark and gritty for likeable and romantic; which is surely false in any real world development of the landscapes of UF that are meant to be mode indicative than landscapes developed in other fantasy subgenres, also gratefully absent from Neal's eLibrary in general.
From the moment Neal's second and related new dimension of including a prologue opens the story, a feature previously as absent as the second point of view, the intensity and associated horror draws the plot dramatically onward and upward, until it stylishly earns it adult rating with a constant climate of these aspects. Blood Demon leaves no doubts as to whom is the intended age group, and perhaps the whole audience in general. On sheer gore alone, the rating is a definite R18+, a not so defining embellishment of the series to date. It's certainly among the reasons that appreciably carry this addition to Sorcerer’s Creed all the way into a darker sort of UF than has come from Neal before. This comparative absence from Neal's own predecessors also carries to its typical peers abroad.
What the prologue presages is a mainstay of the book to be answered, one you'll enjoy reading in order to discover, the need set in motion from page one and carrying right through to the last. Creed's usual position of involvement in the heart of all things supernatural in Blackham City, is both accelerated and more precarious than usual, quite a fete of achievement once all things are considered. As Creed's past has done before, perhaps a relic of lifestyles in which
“magicslingers” lead, his crème-de-la-cream resurfaces for what could easily become his last romp in the proverbial hay. Requiring what isn't his to give by first treating him to the harshest realities of what his future might look like, the thing of his nightmares proves in the grandest of styles that he is no longer the one in control of where his life is set to go.
With that firmly established, the current combatant insists he be the one to steer the current course. The more Creed seeks to resist or alter this fact, the more pain and suffering he’s forced to endure. Fortunately, in a depressing but functional by-product of his past, he's no virgin to the act of compartmentalising in order to go on. From Creed's past in Blackham City, from a time when he was essentially no more well acquainted with the city's denizens than is a tourist, one such early patron will be a curve ball pitcher he wouldn't have thought to get involved with in this new maelstrom of gore, death, and the rendering of innocent flesh; mostly on account of the heritage the new patron is well acquainted with, of causing much the same gore – albeit mostly in their distant past. The irony of the perceptions about the dark side in both a new contract, and one he’d allowed himself to forget, is in how they are both coloured with much the same pallet of the dark side of supernatural forces. It could be comical if what else was going on had an ability to allow any ‘looking on the bright side’ of a cup half-full.
It must be said that I absolutely loved the face lift on earning its adult rating. There's also a sense of having jumped off the proverbial fence when it comes to writing for the intended audience, a feature that might've unduly characterised the series by harsher critics before Blood Demon was published, a great move regardless of however accurate the previous statement is in pointing out a flaw in some of the harsher previous reviewers, who've critiqued each of the previous books with a hard hand.
Blood Demon works well in setting up and establishing the newest climate for the future world that is Blackham City, and abroad in any further additions to Sorcerer's Creed or Neal's works. The frequency and height of violence gives a much bigger and well earned visage of the city at the heart of all things supernatural within the series. Nary a page, or perhaps a couple goes by without scenes and sequences that give this urban fantasy a well earned change of scene, from a straight and mostly clean, to a dark and gritty substitute. Reinvigorating and uplifting qualities and expressions mark Blood Demon as Neal's flagship model of the series to come, and hopefully in the scheme of an equitable marketing solution to keep Neal's future UF publications coming.
Neal's UF has steadily climbed the ladders of TBR’s within the urban and paranormal fantasy world, and to an extent, in smaller ways relating to the market of supernatural suspense and dark fantasy as well. Between Sorcerer's Creed and The Watchers Series, which a little birdy tells me might be forthcoming with a face lift and republished influence in Neal's better developed storytelling than when this first series was written; bringing them on par with his more recent work and from my own point of view, a hopefully more frequent time among bestsellers. A time revealing that male writers have a greater contribution to the subgenre than is typically expected, is more than overdue.
Collectively, Neal now has double figures in full length stories, plus further companion and prequel novellas. With one book having attracted the right sort of attention to place it on the bestseller list, it is my sincere belief that Blood Demon has more than sufficient mettle to be a likely further candidate, and the start of a trend in Neal's future books, so don't be a dupe and miss out on this book in favour of another.
February 1, 2018
Decent fore'
I enjoy Ray and Sanaka a ton. Creed is cool, yet his inner turmoil gets a bit over done at times and Creed comes off a bit cliche' some times.
I wasn't sure why the author referenced Trump and him being "fucked to death" by a demon. No reason to bring politics into these sorts of books. Overall decent read
I enjoy Ray and Sanaka a ton. Creed is cool, yet his inner turmoil gets a bit over done at times and Creed comes off a bit cliche' some times.
I wasn't sure why the author referenced Trump and him being "fucked to death" by a demon. No reason to bring politics into these sorts of books. Overall decent read
April 12, 2019
Wow
I devoured this book in under a day, this series is one that is a delight to read the first time and one that I come back to reread over and over again. Creed doesn't have an easy life, at all. But he rolls with the punches and makes it work. 10/10 would recommend everyone reading this series.
I devoured this book in under a day, this series is one that is a delight to read the first time and one that I come back to reread over and over again. Creed doesn't have an easy life, at all. But he rolls with the punches and makes it work. 10/10 would recommend everyone reading this series.
March 1, 2023
Absolutely loved this series perfect mix of thrill and magic it was awesome
March 31, 2018
Superb
Ave brill fantastic. The life go creed never boring that's for sure. This is by far the most witty. I love sarcasm and this book has it in truck loads. Brilliant story taking you on a journey beyond imagination. Roller coaster ride i didn't want to put down.
Ave brill fantastic. The life go creed never boring that's for sure. This is by far the most witty. I love sarcasm and this book has it in truck loads. Brilliant story taking you on a journey beyond imagination. Roller coaster ride i didn't want to put down.
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