If I could give this a 0 star review I would.

I don't normally say this but in this situation the tv show was better than the book series.
I love the tv series so I though I could love the book series but I had to DNF this book 42 pages in. ( )

Slow start then it got better. I love the show and the actors and i could see this being an episode easily. ( )

The first in the series of novels using the characters from Supernatural. Dean and Sam are in the Bronx, where a pothead musician has been experiencing a haunting every weekend when he returns from playing his regular bar gig. While staying in his house for a week, the Winchesters have multiple sightings of the blonde ghost in the Queensryche t-shirt. They also begin investigating multiple murders about the borough that seem to be following the plotlines of Edgar Allan Poe stories such as Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Tell-Tale Heart.
This was a good one. The novels are original stories, not novelizations of the tv episodes, but if you've seen even one episode of the show you'll see how well the author did in capturing the voices of the Winchesters. ( )

The first original Supernatural tie-in novel. This is set during the second season, and was a decent, pretty entertaining read. DeCandido gets Sam and Dean pretty much right (less so Dean), and the story is interesting, if a little anti-climactic-y in the end. I might have liked a little more insight into the brothers, rather than just a good facsimile of what we see on the show, but I imagine that's not really what a book like this is aiming for. (There's always fanfic for that, I suppose.) My only real complaint is that some of the characterization felt a bit too... on the nose and therefore not *quite* right? But this was good enough that I'll probably try a few more, especially as the book introduced a black character who ended up neither a bad guy nor dead, so points there over the show. =p ( )

This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.tumblr.com by express permission of this reviewer. Title: Nevermore Series: Supernatural Author: Keith DeCandido Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 318 Synopsis: Dean and Sam, the [in]famous Winchester brothers, are doing a favor for Ash, the computer genius who hunts demons online. Ash's friend is being haunted by a ghost and it is escalating. Along the way, the boys come across a series of murders that seem to tie in to a resurrection ceremony based on the stories and poems of Poe. My Thoughts: This story takes place during Season 2, I believe, which needs to be taken into account since that is all the author has to deal with when it comes to characterization. This would have been a typical 2 part tv episode. 2 storylines that aren't related except by location. This story was nothing special, the Poe aspect felt very tacked on. It felt like it was added for the "Urban Fantasy" side of things, like a ghost haunting a washed up bar rockstar wasn't enough? But at the time, the tv show was focusing on urban legends, etc, so it makes sense. If this had been my introduction to Supernatural, I wouldn't be bothering with any more. But like most novelizations of movies and shows, the books never live up to the show. So if you like Supernatural then I do recommend this. I did like it enough to put the next book on my TBR list. " ( )