Jonathan L. Howard

The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.

Carter & Lovecraft

A little less compelling for me than Howard’s Cabal stories, but still interesting. The reader stumbles occasionally in the audiobook version, which detracted from an otherwise serviceable if un exemplary performance.

John Whitney

From author Jonathan L. Howard comes the start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV. Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case -- the hunt for a serial killer -- went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him. First he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, but he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. As he reluctantly investigates, he discovers that Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected, and far more unwanted inheritance.

A Novel

Sarah Escorsa

❓ Jonathan L. Howard Where the Bloody Shrimp of the Stinking Fish Art Thou Buddy Read (JLHWtBSotSFATBR™) with the MacHalo Cabalettes ❓



💀 DNF at 80%.

I slightly DNFed this book a little, ergo it is IMPOSSIBLE that Jonathan L. Howard (aka My Jojo's beloved daddy) wrote it. And that, my Little Barnacles, is a scientifically proven fact. 



See? Even Charlie here agrees with me.

Looks like today is your lucky day because I have another scientifically proven fact for you: this subpar mess of a story is a subpar mess. With plot holes galore, inconsistencies aplenty and catastrophic characterization all around. 

P.S. My fellow Cabalettes of the Impeccable Book Taste read the book right and therefore quite logically DNFed it en masse, but it seems that some of my so-called Friends of The Despicable Book Taste actually kinda sorta enjoyed it. I think said friends better quit drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking high quality stuff. It obviously clouds their already dramatically impaired usually Super Extra Accurate judgement and stuff.

Jason Porterfield

This book is a beautiful, tentacled mess. There are some clunky bits and Mr. Howard seems to still be feeling his way around these characters, but if you stop treating it like a mystery early on you'll be rewarded by a pretty clever twist at the end.

Carter & Lovecraft

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