"There were some great plot twists along the way that kept this book engaging, I loved Aggie and the monks, and this is definitely an author I need to read more from."
I honestly don't know where I want to start with this review. There's just so much that needs to be said. A five star must read recommendation for me. I'll start with this book was hilarious in so many ways. Like snigger / laugh out loud funny. The kind of funny that has your family looking at you oddly while you read or people moving away from you on the train. I loved Doreen, a Witch you should NEVER accept a snack from and the band of Coven Witches. It reminded me in many ways of reading a Terry Pratchett book or the Hitchhiker's Guide. Except set in London and Norfolk. With Witches. This was the author's debut novel and as well as being hilarious, this book was a brilliant contemporary fantasy with Witches, action and adventure and I loved it. The plot was very different, and the fantasy aspect of this story took on a new direction based on the setting of a quaint English village, etc. This novel was definitely character based, with a few MCs (I loved Neil's humour) and bands of well written characters in the different settings as this book takes us between London, the Norfolk Hamlet and Italy. There were some great plot twists along the way that kept this book engaging, I loved Aggie and the monks, and this is definitely an author I need to read more from.
Cathryn Melani, A LoveReading Ambassador
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For Neil Fellows, former soldier who lurks in the doldrums of IT Support, being told he has an old soul by an attractive girl is just the start of his troubles. She introduces him to a coven of witches and the notion that there are two people from his soul’s previous life, who need his help. Neither can die, two sides of the same hex. One that didn’t go according to plan. Grace Haddock, a part witch (on her mother’s side), looks fantastic for a quadricentennial. Perhaps a little too good, even if she does have a good moisturising regime. The other, Barnaby Leech, her witch hunting nemesis, exists in a mobile bubble and resembles King Tut’s grandad. Long suffering and unafraid of dying, his fear is what happens when his body crumbles and he doesn’t find eternal rest. The old witch hunter demands Grace stands trial at the Gates of Hell to remove the hex. He believes his disturbing video evidence of how Grace maintains her vitality will persuade Neil to assist. The hunt is on, and though the elderly coven still protects her, Grace accepts that after 400 years, it might be time to remove the hex. All she has to do is find the missing Grimoires of the original three Lynn witches. Books so powerful no one witch should hold all three. Grace wants Neil’s help because his soul was in the body of her fiancé at the time. Unfortunately, that was in King’s Lynn in 1590 and, well, a soul isn’t supposed to remember past lives. But a part witch and her coven play by different rules. A cryptic warning message from a monk offers a clue, taking Grace and Neil to Florence, and the shocking discovery that Leech’s fear is all too real. So are theirs, with the witch hunter’s people on their tail, and one of them has her own agenda. From the back of beyond in Norfolk, to going above and beyond in Tuscany. Neil has to manoeuvre some unwilling bedfellows toward one final ritual to remove the hex, unaware that something nasty from the depths of Hell is on the guest list too.
The Witch, The Monk, And The IT Guy features in the following genres: Indie Author Books, Indie Books We Love, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction
The Witch, The Monk, And The IT Guy is available in Paperback
The Witch, The Monk, And The IT Guy was written by David Thomas Stone and published by David Thomas Stone
