Expounded Universe

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As tensions rise and the body count increases, the boys finally find an ally that knows anything at all!  Will the not especially mysterious Harmon Baird, survivor of two ghost cycles, be the key the boys need to solve the puzzle once and for all?  And do we have time for the what… seventeenth flashback about their dad?  Of course we do!

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Okay, now the killing has started in earnest.  But the brothers are still busy thinking about hotel keys, gun cleaning, girls, just anything but the haunted town scenario.  Can they get onto the right track?  Can we?  This episode is, to put it politely, shaggy.

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Jon seems fairly confident that this is all right on track, but as far as I can tell this book so far is like a lawnmower that won’t start.  But hey, let’s pull the cord again!

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These chapters are just more tension building, so we went sorta crazy trying to fill the space by ourselves.  Fair warning, I guess.

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There’s trouble down by the old mall!  But first there’s a bunch of flashbacks to Jeffrey Dean Morgan being mean to children, because this is based on season 1 stuff.  Also Juliet is destined to be a major character since she’s back and… well she thinks based on nothing more than timing coincidence that the Winchester boys came to her farm and tore her cows apart by hand.  For at least a second.

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What the hell is this.  Stock photo of first season Ackles and Padalecki, photoshopped into Joshua Tree?  Jon is grabbing the reins and there’s nothing we can do about it now.  Join us on a brand new adventure, as the Winchester Boys encounter a 40-year ghost story in a tiny Arizona town where a new mall is being built.  Will they finally make out?  Yes.  I personally guarantee this is the book where the Winchesters make out.  I’ll guarantee whatever for about 5 bucks.

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Questions, answers, thoughts, prayers, and also the announcement of the next book.  Oh the next book.  Why did I do what I did?

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And just like that it ends, not with a bang, but with a lightsaber twirl and a resounding “meh.”  Not sure what we expected, everyone killable was dead already!  But hey, we visit with Sheev again and you know how much we like that, I suppose.

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Just one more chunk of book left after this!  People are dying at a pace I’d call impressive, but Maul and Eogan are still going strong, now on the lookout for new player Komari Vosa, who Maul needs to kill, or give a nuke to, or both?  Hard to say.

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Great set of chapters if you love pieces being moved around a board, I suppose!  We learn a little about the worm, Sadiki is moving to a retreat stratagem, and Maul, well he’s just doing the sort of stuff he does.  Maul stuff.

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