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Greetings Lovers of Paranormal!

For our October SERIES PICK, we will continue on with Book 4 of the Jack Nightengale paranormal detective series, Nightshade by Stephen Leather. It is rated General Adult.



"In Jack Nightingale's world - where reality and the occult collide - sometimes the only way to fight evil is with evil. A farmer walks into a school and shoots eight children dead before turning the gun on himself. It's a harrowing but straightforward case - until police search the man's farm and unearth evidence of dark Satanic practices. When the perpetrator's brother approaches Nightingale, adamant that his brother was set up, it's clear that something even more sinister lurks at the heart of the case.

And there are dark forces elsewhere. A young girl miraculously returns to life, claiming she's spoken to those from beyond the grave. Those in contact with her are dying hideous deaths . . . forcing Jack Nightingale to make the hardest decision he's ever faced."

Are you reading Nightshade? Shout it out in the comments thread below to find out who else is reading it and discuss what you think about the book. Just remember to be kind ...use the spoiler .html (view spoiler)[so you don't ruin the fun for other people (hide spoiler)] or open your own spoiler-filled discussion thread in the Book Buddies Club folder where you can discuss the book in bare-knuckled, spoilery goodness.

God, yes I'll be reading it! Actually I just started. Woo hoo! I haven't read this one, so will be the first that isn't a reread for me.

Page 2 and Nightingale needs to put someone into a deep sleep... I'm going to go see why.

There are some very disturbing scenes in this one.

Sarah wrote: "There are some very disturbing scenes in this one."

Disturbing as in ... horror? Or disturbing as in ... this crosses some magical line of good taste and acceptability?

The latter. There were some disturbing bits about a girl being molested that I didn't feel were important to the overall story. I'm glad I found out what happened to one character that I was wondering about, but otherwise this was a complete waste of time and I will never read it again.

He was also sloppy about making things come together and there were errors in the kindle edition. HUGE disappointment.

Bummer ... especially as you've enjoyed the series so much until now :-(

I know. I was really excited when I discovered two more books. Now I'm worried about book 5. I may just have to read it as a trilogy in the future and skip the last two. The first three are still great.

That's what you call Jumping the Shark. :-P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_...

Ok, I totally had to look that up, but it's a dead on description.

Oh, well. Mr. Leather has gone on to write many more books and win awards, so hopefully the next one in the series is more palatable? I, personally, have a problem when a book features graphic rape or molestation as mere 'decoration.' It should only be used to depict the heinousness of a situation or character, or to highlight the strength of a victim as they go on. If it's not important to the story, then it shouldn't be spelled out in graphic terms.

It could have been worse but it turned my stomach and didn't seem to serve a purpose.

If anyone wants to skip this one, I'm willing to provide quickie details in spoiler format.