The Demon Priest
Registered by 
GoryDetails
of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 12/30/2021
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 12/30/2021 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I had to order a copy of this book as soon as I heard about it; the author is a longtime friend from back in my software-developer days!
Later: An entertaining linked-stories tale of a demon-turned-priest, who's doing his best to make life easier for his neighbors in his newly-adopted community. This is in a world rife with superheroes and villains, cults and eldritch abominations, and yes, even some purely mundane folk (though even those may have some unexpected talents!). It's a gleeful mashup of many fantasy/horror/superhero tropes - inspired, as the author's preface reveals, by a simple slip of the tongue when describing a proposed fantasy role-playing setting.
The characters include Shamsiel, aka Father Samuel Gregory, the titular demon priest; Lee, who narrates many of the stories, a street person with mental issues who is helpful to Father Gregory in acquiring the desanctified church where he establishes his home base, and is hired as sexton; Bishop Whitcomb, an ally; and many more.
The stories feature up-close-and-personal confrontations as well as larger-scale battles, with lots of riffs on RPG-type game mechanics - and with some touching relationships developing over time, as Father Gregory's growing found-family of allies get to know him and each other - and themselves. Lots of action, some humor, great affection for the genres!
Later: An entertaining linked-stories tale of a demon-turned-priest, who's doing his best to make life easier for his neighbors in his newly-adopted community. This is in a world rife with superheroes and villains, cults and eldritch abominations, and yes, even some purely mundane folk (though even those may have some unexpected talents!). It's a gleeful mashup of many fantasy/horror/superhero tropes - inspired, as the author's preface reveals, by a simple slip of the tongue when describing a proposed fantasy role-playing setting.
The characters include Shamsiel, aka Father Samuel Gregory, the titular demon priest; Lee, who narrates many of the stories, a street person with mental issues who is helpful to Father Gregory in acquiring the desanctified church where he establishes his home base, and is hired as sexton; Bishop Whitcomb, an ally; and many more.
The stories feature up-close-and-personal confrontations as well as larger-scale battles, with lots of riffs on RPG-type game mechanics - and with some touching relationships developing over time, as Father Gregory's growing found-family of allies get to know him and each other - and themselves. Lots of action, some humor, great affection for the genres!
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Revive Recovery Center in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, February 5, 2023
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Revive Recovery Center in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, February 5, 2023
Released 1 mo ago (2/5/2023 UTC) at Little Free Library, Revive Recovery Center in Nashua, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left the book in the Little Free Library; hope someone enjoys it![See other recent releases in NH here.]
** Released for the 2023 Asian Zodiac / Year of the Rabbit challenge, for the embedded "burrow" in the author's name. **
